4.7 billion, according to VG247. While that is a lot of money, Microsoft went through a similar sort of thing with the original Xbox, losing $4.2 billion over the console's four-year lifespan. According to Andriasang, Sony CFO Nobuyuki Oneda said of PlayStation...

350 Billion May Be Needed to Extend Broadband. Broadband FCC Obama Stimulus Internet. America's Internet infrastructure will need more than the President's $7.2 billion according to the FCC.. On Tuesday, an FCC task force reported that an estimated $350 billion...

Disney Purchasing Marvel for $4 Billion. Marvel Walt Disney Acquisition Comics. Walt Disney has said it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stocks. . The two companies announced the agreement via press release this morning. Under...

New Memory Could Store Data for 1 Billion Years. memory billion years ACS. Scientists are working on a new memory material that's capable of storing data for... get this... more than one billion years!. Scientists are working on a new memory material that's...

Macrovision Buys TV Guide for $2.8 Billion. macrovision tv guide. DRM company Macrovision said it has agreed to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide, merging the two companies into a new organization that will combine interactive program guide with content protection technologies....

Sun To Acquire MySQL For $1 Billion. sun msql. Santa Clara (CA) - Sun is entering the database market and has agreed to purchase MySQL AB, developer of the popular SQL database management system SQL. Sun will shell out about $1 billion for the open source...

IBM Reports $4 Billion Q4 Profit. ibm profit. IBM today announced fourth quarter earnings of $4.0 billion, up almost 12% from $3.5 billion reported for Q4 2006. Revenues were up 10% from $26.3 billion to $28.9 billion in the same time frame. For the complete...

2.78 Billion In Bids Of US Wireless Auction. fcc auction wireless. Top bidders put up a total of almost $2.78 billion on Thursday in the opening rounds of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of coveted U.S. government-owned airwaves. The figure...

Google Revenues Approach $5 Billion. google revenue. Mountain View (CA) - Google reported $4.83 billion in revenue and $1.21 in profit for the fourth quarter of 2007. Compared to Q4 2006, sales were up about 51% from $3.21 billion and profit climbed about...

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion For Yahoo. microsoft yahoo. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft today announced a $44.6 billion bid to acquire struggling web portal Yahoo. Microsoft’s offer is based on a share price of $31, which represents a 62% premium over the...