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[Posted on May 9, 2008 - 4:59 PM]
    Aiming to unlock value built through a string of successful acquisitions, RealNetworks Inc. has unveiled plans to spin off its lucrative casual games business and possibly take the...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 9, 2008 - 4:23 PM]
 Blinkx [BLNX.L] shares shot up in earlier London trade today amid new speculation that both Google Inc. [GOOG] and News Corp. [NWS] could be interested in buying the Internet video...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 9, 2008 - 12:03 PM]
 Shares of RealNetworks Inc. [RNWK] were up 13% early in Friday's session after the company reported earnings Thursday night. In addition to besting earnings estimates, the company said it would...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 6:22 PM]
 In the clearest sign yet that Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] meant what it said when it said it was no longer interested in buying Yahoo! Inc., [YHOO], the software company on...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 2:58 PM]
 Look closely and you'll see that high-tech M&A picked up, at least a bit, in April, following a steady decline for the past year. Year-to-date, however, M&A numbers are still...  Continue Reading.

[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 2:10 PM]
 Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] stock price has held up surprisingly well. Trading at $26.07 midday, its shares are only modestly below their closing price of $26.81 on May 1, the session before...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 1:24 PM]
 Nortel Networks Corp. [NT] has waited so long for business conditions to improve so that it can go on the offensive and make some acquisitions that it has waited its way into...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 12:48 PM]
 When Lenovo Group Ltd. announced its $1.7 billion deal to acquire IBM Corp.'s PC division in 2005, the looming integration challenge was the first thing on many obervers' minds. They...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 8, 2008 - 11:42 AM]
 Much of the coverage surrounding the revenue miss for News Corp.-owned [NWS] MySpace.com and the rest of its interactive media properties was negative, and rightly so. Quite simply, the company said that revenues...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 7, 2008 - 7:18 PM]
 i2 Technologies Inc. [ITWO] said late Wednesday that it is in talks with at least two other parties about a possible sale of the supply-chain management software maker. While the...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 7, 2008 - 5:17 PM]
 Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc., says that Electronic Arts Inc. [ERTS] and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. [TTW0] remain far apart in hammering out a deal. Pachter...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 7, 2008 - 1:22 PM]
 Complete with a South Park clip skewering the "virtual millions" of dollars content creators receive from YouTube, Thomas Rubin (pictured), Microsoft Corp.'s [MSFT] chief counsel for intellectual property strategy, opened...  Continue Reading.
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Behind the Money, Episode 29: Andrew Viterbi

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Andrew Viterbi, a co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. spoke with us just moments after he was named one of the finalists for the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize. In Tech Confidential's exclusive Behind the Money video interview, Viterbi talks about his work as a communications pioneer, including his involvement in commercializing the Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA, mobile phone standard -- and about the communications companies he invests in currently as president of venture capital firm Viterbi Group LLC.
 


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