Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Google to buy Postini for $625 million; EMC's VMware announces IPO

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Network World's IT Market Watch News Alert, 07/10/07

Google to buy Postini for $625 million, 07/09/07: Google has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini for $625 million in a move to increase the appeal of Google's hosted applications among big businesses, the companies announced on Monday.

Novell to SUSE users: Don’t worry about Microsoft’s stand on GPLv3, 07/08/07: Microsoft moves to avoid any legal ambiguity over GPLv3, but Novell says SUSE Linux users have nothing to worry about.

Google goes for the enterprise with Postini bid, 07/09/07: Google plans to acquire messaging security vendor Postini in a bid to add security to its on-demand applications to entice enterprises, and at the same time adds another behemoth to the once scrappy antispam and e-mail security market.

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U.S. seeks 7 years in prison for Qwest's CEO, 07/09/07: Prosecutors are recommending that former Qwest Communications International Chief Joseph Nacchio serve more than seven years in prison for insider trading during the telecommunications boom.

Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S., 07/09/07: Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the United States as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small-business customers.

EMC's VMware announces IPO, 07/09/07: VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, is going public, and it hopes to raise as much as $740 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cisco co-founder launching optical network start-up, 07/06/07: Cisco co-founder Len Bosack is back more than two decades later with new venture XKL, which will offer an optical transport system for the enterprise.

Google trails in Asian markets, 07/09/07: Google's dominance may seem unassailable in North America, but it's the search giant that is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday.

Toshiba files suit against German DVD maker, 07/05/07: Toshiba has filed a lawsuit against German DVD replicator EDD Bizz over the alleged infringement of DVD patents.

Dell gets filing extension from Nasdaq, 07/05/07: The Nasdaq stock market has granted a request from Dell to extend a deadline for filing late reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced.

New Microsoft Vancouver office responds to immigration woes, 07/05/07: Microsoft will open a software development office in Vancouver, Canada, later this year, in part as a way to retain talented workers who can't stay in the United States because of immigration laws.

Euro consumer group questions Google-Doubleclick deal, 07/05/07: A European consumer group has complained that Google's proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick could hurt privacy rights due to the massive amount of data the companies would hold.

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