Google shook up the mobile phone industry Monday, announcing that it had agreed to buy US handset maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in a move designed to bolster its Android software in the key market for smartphones.
Bertrand Diard was our guest last week. He is the CEO and co-founder of Talend, an open source data integration software vendor which produces several enterprise software products.
Hewlett-Packard is buying security software company ArcSight in response to growing concerns over hackers. The purchase is the latest in a series of acquisitions which move the IT giant beyond manufacturing and into software and services.
Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd has resurfaced as the new co-president of software giant Oracle, a month after resigning from HP amid lingering charges of sexual harassment.
Tom Burges Watson met Jim Goodnight, who was named by Harvard Business School as one of the 20th century's great American business leaders. He's the CEO and co-founder of North Carolina-based SAS Systems, the world's largest privately held software business.
Hewlett-Packard has announced that it is buying networking company 3Com for 2.7 billion dollars in a deal that is expected to boost its presence in the fast-growing Chinese market.
