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PayPal pays pals $800m for Braintree

It's an eBay no-brainer: buy a rival to branch out biz
Kelly Fiveash, 26 Sep 16:03

Chinese tat bazaar Alibaba snubs Honkers, eyes up Wall St float

$70bn IPO plotting has begun in New York, say 'sources'
Team Register, 25 Sep 14:07

Apple ups revenue estimates in wake of nine million–phone weekend

Now predicts total take to squeak past that of same quarter in 2012
Rik Myslewski, 23 Sep 20:26

Oracle revenues miss expectations – AGAIN

Hardware division sales continue to shrink
Jack Clark, 18 Sep 21:46

Apple's liquid-crystal screen pusher mulls $2bn IPO – report

Japan Display: Surfing the stockmarket? No comment
Jasper Hamill, 16 Sep 12:31

Paypal not sure if its bargepole is long enough for crowdfunding

We'll sell you bug-infested rugs or dud lava-lamps, but not another man's dreams
Jasper Hamill, 16 Sep 08:02

So WHY does Huawei's enigmatic boss shun the West's spotlight?

Ren Zhangfei's secret revealed by man who should know
Kelly Fiveash, 12 Sep 16:29

Shareholders tell Mike 'Just Do It': Dell to go PRIVATE for $24.9bn

Michael has a 'single minded purpose' ...
Paul Kunert, 12 Sep 15:59

ATTACK of the ROBOT BANKERS brings stock market to its knees

Stock market crashes and spikes caused by 'predatory' algorithms, say boffins
Jasper Hamill, 12 Sep 15:28
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Top UK billionaires considerably richer than Chinese ones ... for now

However, note that we didn't say British billionaires there
Jasper Hamill, 12 Sep 04:56

ICAHN'T with this guy: Activist investor gives up battle with Big Mike

Icahn throws in towel on trying to stop founder taking Dell private

Opinion

Dell chairman and CEO, Michael Dell

The only thing holding Dell back is ... er, Mickey D himself

Blocks and Files Namesake CEO might need to shift off box-shift to avoid revenue dip
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini

Tech giants' offshore cash-stashing is only ever a delaying tactic

Comment Someone always pays, sooner or later
Tim Worstall, 11 Jun 08:03

Forget tax bills, here's how Google is really taking us all for a ride

Analysis What's that saying about knowing the price of everything?
Andrew Orlowski, 28 May 09:18
Bond on train Patrice Skyfall

Mobile tech destroys the case for the HS2 £multi-beellion train set

Comment And robot cars will mean no need for new roads, too
Tim Worstall, 16 May 12:36

News

Brit online property bazaar Zoopla ponders BILLION-pound flotation

Could net founder Alex Chesterman £100m, allow him to buy SEVERAL houses in London

Mail.ru says 'да' to half a BILLION dollars, flogs its 14m Facebook shares

Russia's richest man cuts firm's Facebook holdings loose

LinkedIn looks at bank account, thinks: We'll raise one Instagram*

* That's $1bn, in freshly sold shares, ploughed straight into the biz

The only thing holding Dell back is ... er, Mickey D himself

Blocks and Files Namesake CEO might need to shift off box-shift to avoid revenue dip
Chris Mellor, 04 Sep 11:44

Shareholders' advisors back Big Mike's deal to take Dell private

Companies reckon the price is right and it takes PC pressures off the firm

World+dog left counting costs: Still can't bury corpse of titsup Brit IT giant 2e2

86% of book debt still not collected, staff tribunals continue
Paul Kunert, 02 Sep 15:28

Nasdaq blames rival NYSE Arca for 3-HOUR trading outage

Claims fellow exchange crapflooded it, but cops to 'latent flaw' in own systems

BILLION DOLLAR BALLMER: Microsoft chief makes $1bn simply by quitting

Hmm, what could I do to boost the value of my stock portfolio?
Kelly Fiveash, 23 Aug 15:23

Indian IT exporters coin windfall profits as rupee plunges

Now's the time to renegotiate outsourcing and offshoring deals
Phil Muncaster, 23 Aug 06:02

Government intervention unlikely for beleaguered BlackBerry

Canadian minister casts gloom on bailout hopes
Neil McAllister, 23 Aug 00:51

Salesforce rival SugarCRM scores $40m from Goldman Sachs

Will SaaSy player actually float this time?
Gavin Clarke, 21 Aug 16:13
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Bitcoin blitzkreig as Germans prepare to tax virtual currency

Berlin puts its towel on virtual sunlounger
Jasper Hamill, 20 Aug 07:32
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini

Vodafone 'settled SECRET £57m Irish tax wrangle' back in 2009

Look, taxman, here's a few mil, now sod off will you?

More brutal PC numbers from Dell as revenues stay flat, profits sink

Could this be Dell's last earnings report ever?
Neil McAllister, 15 Aug 23:22

IBM snaps up banking security biz Trusteer, won't say what it paid

Reveals plans to extend Israel-based R&D facility
John Leyden, 15 Aug 11:37

Oz bank closes Bitcoin business' bank accounts

CoinJar cruelled by Commonwealth Bank
Simon Sharwood, 15 Aug 06:33
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Cisco readies axe for 4,000 employees

Worries over future prompt swinging of the scythe
Jack Clark, 14 Aug 23:56
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini

Big Mike heading for victory as SAM dumps HALF its Dell shares

Carl Icahn's just put $1.5bn into Apple... have they lost interest in Mickey D's firm?
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Facebook's No 2 banks $91m after BIG shares sale

Sheryl Sandberg cashes in on stock price. Kerching ... bitch
Kelly Fiveash, 12 Aug 10:25
Shane Robison

Flash angel Fusion-io flies too close to Facebook, Apple, plummets to Earth

Analysis PCIe cache darling's wings melt, paperwork covered in red after year at the top
Chris Mellor, 09 Aug 10:20
Racks inside Rackspace's Sydney Data Centre

Rackspace spends big bucks to peddle its cloud vision

Striking while the fluffy hybrid iron is hot