Tech companies' spending billions of dollars on up-and-coming social sites is nothing new, but a few past deals might surprise you.

SoftBank amended its offer to give shareholders more cash, while Sprint said it had ended talks with rival bidder Dish.

A várakozásoknak megfelelően hamar túljutott az első 10 millió eladáson a Samsung.

Facebook is reportedly very close to buying crowdsourced navigation app Waze for anywhere between $500 million and $1 billion.

A híres minigép hamarosan az egymilliót is túlszárnyalja az eladások tekintetében.

Eight found guilty of £2.5 million campaign

Apple could be sued by shareholders if it doesn't do something with the $137.1 billion in cash and investments it has.

Five Samsung tablet sizes touted including 14in

The Japanese electronics giant has been in the iconic Madison Avenue building for 20 years.

Leighton Holdings subsidiary, Visionstream, has landed a $90 million contract with Telstra to provision services as part of the telco's infrastructure deployment of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Improves sales hoped for Surface Pro tablet shipping later this month.

Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China.

Google is granting US$23 million to seven not-for-profit organisations to support technology innovations that are "changing the world", the company said.

Shifts Galaxy Note II to sellers rather than end-users.

The city has now migrated over 80 percent of its 15,500 desktops to LiMux, it's own distribution of Linux

Posts $6.9 billion loss for fourth quarter.

A consumer rights group had argued the fine was inadequate.

Australian telecommunications provider, MyNetFone (MNF), has announced that it will purchase Melbourne-based Internet service provider (ISP), Connexus, for $4.75 million in cash.

Storage products vendors, Seagate Technology, has announced that it recorded revenue of approximately $US3.7 billion with a gross margin of 28.4 per cent, net income of $US582 million, and diluted earnings per share of $US1.42 on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis for its first fiscal quarter of 2013, which ended on September 28.

Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators.