Internet search company Google is planning to buy its first Israeli startup, iROWS, a online spreadsheet company. Though Google denied acquiring iRows, iRows founders have joined Google and will shut down the site on December 31, 2006...

Reiterating that it wants to play better with others, Microsoft has started a group to promote software interoperability. Twenty-five companies, including Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, XenSource and Novell, have agreed to join the Interop Vendor Alliance...

CIMB and EDS, a global business solutions provider, have signed a new ten-year contract in which CIMB has committed to a minimum payment of RM720 million. The agreement signed between CIMB's subsidiary EPIC-I...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he expects newly energised congressional Democrats to ease some accounting requirements of a landmark 2002 anti-fraud law that much of corporate America has criticised as overly burdensome...

Sun has taken the wraps off Sun Startup Essentials, a new program that aims to enable early-stage companies to run their businesses on Sun's technologies at a cost that fits their budgets. The program intends on offering start-ups a range of Sun products...

Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista that aims to provide productivity; data visualisation; and communications, collaboration, and security features. Microsoft also announced that...

Microsoft has sent Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows to manufacturing, ending the large Office beta release and testing program the company has ever undertaken. Business customers and volume licensees will be able to set hands on Office 2007 beginning November 30...

PeopleSoft founder David A. Duffield is all set to launch a new company called Workday. Duffield called the business 'a new generation of on-demand ERP,' akin to such companies as San Francisco-based Salesforce.com and San Mateo-based NetSuite. He claims the goal...

Is Microsoft teaming up with rival Novell to offer support for Linux? Microsoft has in fact embraced Novell’s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the...

Microsoft has revealed the licensing of technologies to two Chinese software companies, Comtech Group and Hunan Talkweb Information System (Talkweb). Comtech and Talkweb are demonstrating the potential for intellectual property (IP) created in China to be the...

IBM and Lehman are all set to team up to create the China Investment Fund with an initial capitalisation of USD 180 million to drive the financial and business transformation of Chinese enterprises through good business practices and technology. With each company initially providing...

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who approach organisational mergers, acquisitions and divestments (MA&Ds) as an opportunity to grow staff and strengthen IT assets put their companies at significant advantage over those who view MA&Ds with trepidation, according to new research from...

AMD has completed the USD 5.4 billion acquisition of ATI Technologies. "Today marks a historic day for our employees, our partners and our customers as we officially welcome ATI into the AMD family," said AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz...

Enterprises should standardise on the IE7 browser, according to Info-Tech Research Group. The research group also found that the security and usability features in IE7 and Firefox 2.0 are converging to the point where there is no longer a clear leader between the two...

The Dual Factor Authentication (DFA) adoption by financial institutions in Asia is growing, as per a report by IDC. The increasing number of Internet-based attacks have resulted in financial institutions adding an additional layer of security to their online channels for increased...

Social networkers are increasingly turning away from traditional media and toward their peers for information and product recommendations. This change provides marketers with a new opportunity to reach consumers by launching s-commerce initiatives that weave best...

IBM will relocate the head office of its global procurement arm to the southern China's city of Shenzhen from Somers, New York. John Paterson, the company's chief procurement officer, said relocating the division's headquarters would increase efficiencies and cost savings...

Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) will grow slowly at first in China, and then experience swift growth after the commencement of 3G services between 2008 and 2010, according to research firm In-Stat. In 2005, there were about 400,000 consumer FMC subscribers...

The rumour that originally surfaced last week about how Google might be close to snapping up YouTube, has now turned out to be true. Google has officially agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share...

Rumour has it that Google might be close to snapping up the popular free video sharing web site, YouTube. This strikes LeeAnn Prescott, an analyst as highly unlikely, but deserves some analysis. Firstly, how does YouTube's traffic compare to Google Video, and what effect did...