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Apple Leads App Market That May Bring In $3.8 Billion in ’11 (Adam Satariano/Bloomberg)

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Leads App Market That May Bring In $3.8 Billion in ’11  —  Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other makers of smartphone operating systems may generate $3.8 billion this year from sales of downloadable games, organizational tools and other applications, according to researchers at IHS ISuppli.

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Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition  —  Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today.  Intel announced the $7.68 billion, all-cash deal last August.  —  According to the release, McAfee will continue developing …

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Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion (Rich Miller/Data Center Knowledge)

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion  —  The NAP of the Americas, the huge Terremark data center in downtown Miami.  Verizon says it will buy Terremark (and the NAP) for $1.4 billion.  —  Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal …

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Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion (Trudy Muller/Apple)

Trudy Muller / Apple:
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion  —  Apple® today announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store℠ by the more than 160 million iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ users worldwide.  The 10 billionth app downloaded …

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