Electronic Arts’ hostile bid for Grand Theft Auto producer Take-Two Interactive appears to have ended quietly this week.
Shortly after EA failed to make an attractive-enough offer, Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto IV shattered all-time launch sales records, lending support to Chairman Zelnick’s argument that the bid undervalued the …
The initial release candidate of Firefox 3 is ready for download.
It’s a public preview of the new Firefox code, available in 45 languages, aimed at developers and early adopters to test out the new features. It has an extensive list of known bugs.
Among the major improvements are …
Yahoo and shareholders suing the company don’t see eye to eye about how public some documents involved in the case should be.
The documents involve details of a severance plan Yahoo adopted after Microsoft launched its attempt to acquire the Internet company in February. Yahoo wants to keep the …
PALO ALTO, Calif.–Hewlett-Packard wants to get hip to teens.
At an event here this week focused on teenagers and technology, Ameer Karim, director of HP’s future and innovations group for consumer PCs, said that it plans to introduce a new line of devices this fall that will be …
Those annoying ads the Yahoo Mail has been appending to the bottom of e-mail messages soon will be a thing of the past.
Some at Yahoo apparently didn't like the taglines, either: this is the example the company used to illustrate how the ads can pile up.
(Credit:
…
Ars Technica, a decade-old independent tech news and analysis site, is becoming a part of Conde Nast’s Wired Digital group.
The acquisition will be announced Monday, sources familiar with the acquisition said, confirming a report Friday in TechCrunch. The price tag was near $25 million, TechCrunch said.
CondeNet, the …
Former One Laptop Per Child President Walter Bender has formed a nonprofit called Sugar Labs, which will advance the Sugar graphical interface he originally created for the low-cost computing project.
Sugar Labs will partner with developers of Sugar-compatible applications and other hardware makers that want to use the user interface …
Dell is taking steps to promote Alienware PCs on its Web site as the PC maker tries to collaborate more–rather than compete outright–with its Alienware unit.
Dell has added the Area-51 m9750 to its gaming laptop Web site, according to a Dell company blog.
Dell Web page features new Alienware …
Qualcomm may be preparing to launch its MediaFlo mobile TV service in the U.K.
The company this week said it has won 40MHz of wireless spectrum in the U.K. that would be ideal for mobile TV and broadband services. The spectrum is in what’s known as the …
Carl Icahn notwithstanding, Yahoo’s deal to use Google search advertisements is still a go.
The partnership, which is designed to increase Yahoo’s ad revenue, is “still on track,” a source familiar with the partnership said, and an announcement is expected next week. That aligns well with reports in …