Rumor: Xing to acquire Plaxo?
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Blog: TechCrunch reports that a lot of rumors are spreading about it, but it's still unsubstantiated.
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(InfoWorld) - Is DellÂ ready to abandon its direct sales model to boost its prospects in China? The company says no. Several Chinese media outlets recently reported Dell is in talks to buy Chinese PC maker Founder Technology Group, citing a report by a Chinese newspaper, National Business Daily. The newspaper did not name its source and appears to have removed at least one related story, published on Dec. 15, from its Web site. A Dell acquisition of Founder would leave the U.S. PC vendor with a nationwide network of retail shops in China, ending its long-standing reliance on direct sales. Sharon Zhang, a spokeswoman for Dell China, declined to comment on the acquisition reports, but said the company has no plans to change its direct sales model. "We are committed to the direct sales model in China," Zhang said. Founder executives in Beijing could not immediately be reached for comment. During 2005, Founder was the second-largest PC vendor in China with 12.3 percent of the market, according to industry analyst IDC. The company trailed Lenovo Group, which held 32.8 percent of the market, and managed to stay one step ahead of Dell, which was the largest foreign PC vendor in the country, with an 8.8 percent share of the market, IDC said. While rumors of Dell's interest circulate, Chinese media reported that at least one Chinese company is interested in Founder. The China Business News newspaper reported Monday that Haier Corp. was in talks to acquire Founder, citing an inside source at the consumer electronics and whitegoods producer based in Qingdao, northern China. Haier could not be reached for comment.
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CEO still eyeing AMD. Also: Server maker unsheathes new blades and a software pact with Microsoft.
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The new 'tween toy from Hasbro looks and works like a cell phone. Also: Rumors fly of a Verizon bid for MCI&hellip;.  Google sits down to chat with Wall Street&hellip;. and more.
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OPEN Business Club AG (ISIN: DE000XNG8888), operator of the international networking platform XING (www.xing.com), today announced a comprehensive partnership with Zoom Information Inc.
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Archipelago Holdings, the owner of ArcaEx, the largest electronic stock market, is expected to buy the Pacific Exchange for about $50 million.
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By Andrew Eder, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 2--Sony Corp. is the buyer of bankrupt Ipix Corp.'s intellectual  assets, a Thursday court filing revealed.
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Rumors of an Apple-TiVo deal may be overdone.
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Tycho:  Positive Sony news here, at Penny Arcade?  I know, right?  We shall redouble our efforts.  The story all this was based on has been changed to say that none of it is true, or that very little of it is true (depending on who you ask), but if you're asking me I think the original story hit pretty close to the mark.  The alternative - which is to say, that xFire technology would be used for a single game and no others - suggests that their service will be another briar patch of vendor "interpretations" of an online community, which can't possibly be true.  I refuse to believe that, in this generation, they would leave something like this to chance.
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Tycho: I just read through one of the conduits of Leipzig gaming news, and was jolted by a piece of news: Xbox Live is going to be moving into classic board games. I don't mean, like, Chutes and Ladders or some shit - though I don't doubt that GrowPot420 would snap that up on day one. No, I mean like Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. Pillars of the tabletop gaming community, so to speak. This is probably the biggest news of that convention for me. Getting people together to play these games, or finding people to play them with at all can be a trying endeavor. This is near Goddamn optimal.(CW)TB
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idril writes &quot;According to The New York Times (free registration required), China&#39;s largest PC maker is reportedly in talks to buy IBM&#39;s PC business.
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As soon as rumors began to fly about the IBM-Lenovo deal, bloggers and others began to buzz about the possibility that IBM would use the opportunity to buy Apple. The contract posted by Lenovo, however, says no. [Missing Links]
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So yesterday SPOnG began receiving shots of a suitcase from Japan. The suitcase contained some Nike Shox trainers, a t-shirt, and a copy of Gran Turismo 4. There was talk that the t-shirt unlocks a special
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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The new search-engine technology is meant to rival Google. Also: Reebok unveils a new version of the Pump & hellip;.  PeopleSoft still won't settle for Oracle's bid & hellip;. and more.
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Speculation on private newspaper buyouts goes further down the rabbit hole.
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PeopleSoft may be willing to be bought by Oracle after all--if the price is right. Steven Goldby, a PeopleSoft board member, testified Tuesday in the trial taking place in Delaware that a sale would be possible