Displaying items by tag: deal

Is WhatsApp really worth as much as SanDisk? Facebook eventually paid even more, but with Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, the combined companies' future looks to being a brightly solid state.

Top games maker Animoca has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Tencent to publish its Armies of Dragons game across the WeChat platform in key South East Asian countries.

Presto has entered into a conditional agreement with Quickflix to offer Presto’s content to Quickflix customers, subject to a series of commercial requirements before being finalised.

MacBundler and Stacksocial have joined forces to offer 10 nifty Mac apps for a low US $10 price, I bought the deal myself and it’s worth it!

Vodafone wants to pull itself out of the red by supercharging its Red plans with either a free 6 or 12 month Spotify OR free 6 or 12 month SMH or The Age mobile subscription depending on the Red plan chosen.

Many wondered if it would ever happen – Dropbox support in the Office mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, plus Dropbox for Windows Phone. Now it shall.

Amazon has pipped Google to the post in a shock move this morning announcing a US$970 million acquisition of gaming video service Twitch.

Cisco has won another contract from NBN Co, this time to supply MPLS routers and firewalls for the company's national connectivity network (NCN).

Intel is the latest company to buy up some patents, but rather than spending billions upon billions of dollars, it seems to have picked up a relative bargain, snapping up RealNetwork's patents for just over one tenth of a billion, at $120m.

Leading investment banking and legal advisers will meet in Singapore to debate an expected surge in regional telecom deal activity in the emerging markets at the TMT Finance and Investment Asia 2010 conference in Singapore on November 3 (www.tmtfinance.com/asia).

I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of Microsoft US making pronouncements about pricing for Windows 7, but offering essentially no details about anywhere else on the planet, as if the Internet blocked non-US readers from reading Brandon LeBlanc brashly blab on blankly about Windows 7 this and that.