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...

than ever." He considered the $44.6 billion as an offer that Yahoo should "seriously think about". Your guess is as good as ours on whether Microsoft will increase its offer to $57 billion, but it is clear that there are very few companies out there that can...

Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion. europe microsoft fine. The European Commission (EC) fined Microsoft 899 million Euros or $1.35 billion for non-compliance of the Commission's March 2004 decision. . Brussels (Belgium) - The European Commission (EC) fined...

Google Closes $3.1 Billion DoubleClick Acquisition. google doubleclick acquisition. Google said on Tuesday it has completed the $3.. Google said on Tuesday it has completed the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, just hours after receiving antitrust...