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Microsoft has released the community technology preview (CTP) for Project Madison, its data warehousing solution for SQL Server 2008 R2. The CTP release stems from Microsoft's acquisition last year Read more...

Symantec has quietly paid an estimated $123 million for privately-held online storage firm Read more...

There are many questions regarding the announced sale of EDS to HP, including what it means for their respective tech staffs, the direction of the new merged company and the new shape of global IT Read more...

HP is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp for about $13 billion, setting the stage to make HP the world's second largest provider of technology services - after behemoth IBM.

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It sure feels like the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations have been going on forever but judging by the looks of it, it seems like there

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> French wine CIO ready for an acquisition. Article> Tech sector blues on Wall Street. Read more...

Google finalized a $3.1 million deal on Wednesday for DoubleClick, a New York company that places ads on web pages that targeted consumers are likely to use, says the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Rivals of Read more...

It wasn't even a business day when word began to spread that Yahoo had rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid. Yahoo didn't think that the $31 per share offer was nearly enough, according to several Read more...

Oracle wants to buy BEA for $6.7 Billion, but does BEA really want to sell at that price, just to be gobbled up by the third largest software company in the world? It's unclear, even though offering Read more...

In another major consolidation of the enterprise software industry, Germany's SAP took the opportunity this past weekend to close a deal to acquire Business Objects for $6.78 billion. The deal was Read more...