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Blockbuster is stamping its brand on CinemaNow’s system for delivering movies over the Internet, providing the video rental chain with another avenue for reaching consumers who want to rent and buy movies without traveling to a store. The alliance with CinemaNow, to be announced Wednesday, accelerates Blockbuster’s push to catch up with rival Netflix.
Verizon Wireless said Friday it has completed its US$5.9 billion purchase of Little Rock, Ark.-based Alltel, making Verizon the nation’s largest mobile phone company. Verizon said Friday it will also take on $22.2 billion in Alltel debt. Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon says it will retain all Alltel employees below the executive level as the company assesses which positions need to be cut or kept.
TD Ameritrade said on Thursday it will buy Thinkorswim for $606 million in order to pad the online broker’s industry-leading trading business and establish it in the fast-growing area of options and futures trading. The stock and cash deal gives shareholders of Thinkorswim 0.3980 of a TD Ameritrade share plus $3.34 in cash for each of their shares.
Sun Microsystems has acquired Belgian cloud computing company Q-layer for an undisclosed price. Q-layer makes software that automates the deployment and management of corporate IT infrastructure such as servers, computers and Web-based applications in both public and private clouds.
Lenovo Group announced Thursday that it is in preliminary talks on a potential investment opportunity and acquisition in response to recent rumors that it intends to buy a Brazilian company. Lenovo said in the announcement that no agreement between the two sides had been made yet and refused to disclose more details.
One of Yahoo’s largest shareholders is urging the beleaguered Internet company’s board to sell its search assets to Microsoft. Ivory Investment Management, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund, on Wednesday submitted a letter to Yahoo’s board proposing a deal whereby Yahoo would sell its search assets to Microsoft.
After surging 7 percent Tuesday on rumors that a former AOL executive wants to acquire Yahoo for as much as $30 billion, the beleaguered Internet portal’s shares were down nearly 5 percent at $11.02 per share in mid-day trading on Wednesday but closed flat as the market rallied. Jonathan Miller, former chairman and CEO of AOL, is reportedly trying to raise as much as $30 billion to buy Yahoo.
TV shows like “The Hills” focus on the petty squabbles that go on in the world of spoiled, vapid socialites. I can’t think of a program that gets into the catfights that go on in the IT world, and I don’t know whether there’d really be a huge audience for something like that, but they do happen, and court documents in an ongoing lawsuit have revealed some juicy tidbits.
Yahoo and T-Mobile jointly announced that Yahoo oneSearch will be the default mobile engine to power Internet search made through T-Mobile’s new Web2go service. The new Web2go service is basically a customizable home page on a mobile phone that makes it easier to view and navigate the Internet on the handheld device.
Nearly 10 months after making an aggressive move to acquire struggling Internet portal Yahoo, Microsoft no longer has any interest in buying the company. At the software giant’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is “done with all acquisition discussions” with Yahoo.
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