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• Linux leads Wind River revenues upwards 1 day, 23 hours ago
  
  Wind River Systems yesterday reported strong second quarter results, raising earnings guidance for fiscal 2009 to between $365M and $375M, or 17 to 19 cents per share. Leading the growth were Linux-related revenues, up 60 percent year-over-year, to $10,111,000, or 11 percent of the company's total revenues for the quarter.
• Microsoft Shells Out $486M for Research Firm 2 days, 3 hours ago
  
  After failed Yahoo buyout, Microsoft opens its wallet to crack the European search and e-commerce market.
• Novell and SCO Agree on Interest, Trust Amounts; Final Judgment Still in Dispute 2 days, 19 hours ago
  
  Novell filed today, as per the deadline, two documents, one an unopposed filing regarding interest due Novell by SCO -- SCO has agreed to the sum of $918,122 in prejudgment interest and $489 per day until the final judgment is entered.
• Wind River buys Mizi Research 5 days, 3 hours ago
  
  Wind River announced it will acquire a Korean developer of Linux mobile GUI stacks. The $16 million acquisition of privately-held Mizi Research will bring Wind River "world-class mobile expertise" and will "accelerate its mobile services presence in Asia Pacific," says the company.
• Microsoft to drop $486 million for European shopping site 6 days, 17 hours ago
  
  Microsoft said Friday it has reached a deal to acquire Greenfield Online, the owner of consumer shopping sites, for about $486 million.
• 29% of Internet Users Buy from Spam 2 weeks, 1 day ago
  
  picture Recent Marshal poll results show that 29% of Internet users buy products of whose existence they find out via spam. The percentage is incredibly large if we don't take into account the fact that the Marshall survey included only 622 respondents, a sample that can hardly be held as sufficient. Moreover, the question that stood at the base of the poll was "What purchases have you made from spam?", which implies that those who answer it are very likely to have actually bought something using the method.
• 29% of Internet Users Buy from Spam 2 weeks, 1 day ago
  
  picture Recent Marshal poll results show that 29% of Internet users buy products of whose existence they find out via spam. The percentage is incredibly large if we don't take into account the fact that the Marshall survey included only 622 respondents, a sample that can hardly be held as sufficient. Moreover, the question that stood at the base of the poll was "What purchases have you made from spam?", which implies that those who answer it are very likely to have actually bought something using the method.
• A Merger in Wireless Chips for Ericsson, STMicro 2 weeks, 1 day ago
  
  Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have agreed to join their wireless chip and software businesses to create a joint venture that will supply four of the world's top five mobile phone makers.
• Intel says it has 'first silicon' for next mobile chip 2 weeks, 1 day ago
  
  At the Intel Developer Forum, the chipmaker said it has achieved a milestone with its next-generation Moorestown processor, aimed at the smartphone market.
• Grokking SCO's demise 2 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  The SCO Group 's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn't actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten -- and in some cases, sue -- Linux users.
• Mozilla grabs new Exec Director from Shuttleworth 2 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  The Mozilla Foundation has named Mark Surman as its new Executive Director effective September 22. Surman is currently serving as an Open Philanthropy Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation.
• Icahn's Right-Hand Men Confirmed for Yahoo!'s Board 2 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  Yahoo! has confirmed that two new directors who will be included in the executive board are from Carl Icahn's slate. The two businessmen are Frank Biondi and John Chapple, and are familiar with issues regarding media, entertainment, and even telecommunications and real estate. Previously, Biondi held executive roles in companies such as Universal Studios, Viacom, Hasbro, while Chapple was COO or president of enterprises like Hawkeye Investments or AT&T Wireless Services.
• Now Sun has a social network server, too 2 weeks, 6 days ago
  
  I was surprised to read today that Sun just released SocialSite, an open-source social network server similar to Ringside Networks. Per Patrick Chanezon's blog: "Socialsite is an open source (CDDL/GPL) social network server based on Apache Shindig (Java) that implements the database and User Interface for a full fledge social network. Since it is based on Shindig, it implements OpenSocial."
• Report: Ben Ling's going back to the Googleplex 2 weeks, 6 days ago
  
  Benjamin Ling, the former Googler who was hired by Facebook last year and sparked a barrage of blog speculation about Google employees moving on to the next cool company, may be going back to Mountain View. Earlier this week, Facebook confirmed that he was indeed leaving the company.
• Could Apple Acquire Yahoo? 3 weeks, 1 day ago
  
  The business world is still buzzing about Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo, and rightly so. That’s a significant deal with significant implications for the Internet that we all know and love.
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