MySQL separatists address Russia and China as EU assent on the deal grows likely.

A U.S. representative plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the kind of deal proposed.

Two consumer groups urged U.S. regulators on Monday to block Google from acquiring mobile advertising provider AdMob, citing potential harm the deal could cause to users, advertisers and application developers.

IBM on Wednesday said it has signed a deal to buy Lombardi, an Austin, Texas, BPM (business process management) vendor. Terms were not disclosed.

While rumors are swirling around the Internet that Intel is looking to buy rival chips maker Nvidia, analysts say it's nothing but talk and bluster.

Gartner announced Monday that it is buying AMR Research for US$64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm. The deal is expected to be completed this month.

Cisco has given shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg about two more days to accept its US$3.4 billion buyout offer.

IBM has acquired database security vendor Guardium, it said Monday, confirming earlier reports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

3Com Corp.'s board of directors is facing a lawsuit over the proposed acquisition by Hewlett Packard Development Company LP, but a financial analyst who studies Ethernet switching argued if approved, both vendors would benefit from the deal.

The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would harm competition in the database market.

Microsoft's deal with Yahoo under which the software maker's new Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches and Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

Yahoo and Microsoft have missed a deadline for finalizing their search and advertising deal and have now extended the deadline for an unspecified period.

Europe's competition commissioner says Oracle has failed to help address its concerns.

Cisco Tuesday announced its second multibillion dollar deal this month: a definitive agreement to acquire Starent Networks, a provider of IP-based mobile infrastructure for carriers, for about $2.9 billion.

A Xerox Magyarország Kft. új, fekete-fehér digitális berendezést vezetett be a piacra. A Xerox 6279™ széles formátumú kompakt nyomtató kiváló képminőséget, nagy sebességet és alacsony üzemeltetési költséget garantál, így ideális a nagyméretű, bonyolult műszaki és építészeti perspektivikus rajzok, kapcsolási rajzok és szerkezeti tervek nyomtatásához, másolásához, valamint szkenneléséhez.

Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else.

Some of the few PC makers who offered a controversial Web filtering program mandated by China have reversed those plans, dealing the latest blow to China's efforts to deploy the software nationwide.

A Xerox Magyarország Kft. új, belépő szintű, multifunkciós nyomtatót vezetett be a piacra, amely a felhasználók igényeinek minél teljesebb kielégítése érdekében három különböző konfigurációban érhető el. A Phaser 6121MFP elsősorban otthoni irodák és kiscsoportos felhasználók számára ideális, költség- és helytakarékos, színes asztali berendezés, amely nyomtat, másol, szkennel és faxol.

A Xerox Magyarország Kft. új, költségtakarékos széles formátumú médiahordozó-családot vezetett be a piacra, a kültéri és beltéri reklámozáshoz ideális Economy termékeket.

Az SAP AG bejelentette, hogy megveszi a francia Highdealt, egy valós idejű számlázási megoldásokat kínáló vállalatot.