Ericsson wants to buy Microsoft's IPTV software

According to the agency business to Bloomberg, the Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is in talks with Microsoft regarding the purchase of its units for the production of solutions for Internet TV (IPTV).

Microsoft IPTV solutions are focused on large telecom operators offering customers mobile TV, TV on demand and classic webcasts.

Sources close to the companies say that while all aspects of the transaction likely Microsoft and Ericsson have not agreed, but on the achievement of a final agreement could be announced in the next couple of weeks. Officially, neither Microsoft nor Ericsson this information is not confirmed. Bloomberg says nothing about the possible price of the transaction.

PayPal migrate to Openstack

Internet companies eBay and PayPal have decided to refuse from systems virtualization and cloud VMware and transfer a certain amount of open system servers to OpenStack.

Just eBay and PayPal now has about 80,000 servers. This was in an interview with Business Insider said board member OpenStack Foundation Boris Rennes.

Rennes also works for Mirantis, co-founder of which he is, and says that they are working on practical implementation of OpenStack and now many Western companies are now actively discussing the transition to cloud solutions for open source. Earlier Mirantis also worked on OpenStack with Dell, Intel and several other IT companies worldwide.

Rennes says that now his company is working with PayPal and advises on the implementation of OpenStack, and gave their own PayPal solution Fuel production.

According to him, the first phase of transition, PayPal would lead to about 10 000 VMware servers. By summer, these machines must earn based OpenStack. Further, the company will evaluate the results of transition and may continue further introduction.

Hon Hai improved quarterly financial results

The company Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world's largest contract manufacturer of computers and smartphones, today published a report on a record quarterly profit amid increased volumes of previously received orders to release Apple iPhone and iPad.

In the fourth quarter, net sales increased by 5.6% to $ 37 billion New Taiwan dollars, or 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. Analysts on average expected the company this figure at 35.9 billion Taiwan dollars.

Earlier Hon Hai reported that faced with a number of production problems related to release of the iPhone 5, but by the end of the year was solved, so Hon Hai was able to increase revenue.

On the other hand, since the beginning of the year, analysts say the falling demand for the iPhone and iPad, which could adversely affect future earnings Hon Hai. In addition to the commercial production and assembly of electronic components Hon Hai is increasingly competing with Korean Samsung Electronics, which may also affect the income of the first.

Consolidated revenues in the reporting period increased by 6% to NT $ 1.14 trillion, against 1.13 trillion a year earlier. For the entire 2012 Hon Hai a profit of 81.6 billion Taiwan dollars, revenue was NT $ 3.9 trillion, up from last year's total by 13%.

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn: From Wikipedia

Yahoo acquired the mobile news start-up Summly

According to Market Watch, the Internet company Yahoo acquired the mobile start-Summly, allows users of smartphones and tablets to find, read and share online news, as well as various information.

Financial terms were not officially disclosed, but according to some reports the purchase price somewhat higher than $ 1 million.

The peculiarity of this purchase is that the company Summly is 17-year-old British teenager Nick Di'Aloisio, who started making the application as early as age 15.

According to the blog post Summly, after a deal by the application and a small team of developers that support it will work for Yahoo.

Recall that last month Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that Yahoo will move toward Internet-based services with deep customization for end users and intends to expand the number of applications of this focus, as well as attract new staff of programmers who specialize in customization services.

NEC plans to sell mobile unit NEC Mobiling

According to today's publication of the Tokyo business publication Nikkei, NEC Corporation is considering selling its mobile unit NEC Mobiling 70-80 billion yen, or about 740-840 million dollars.

Edition, referring to anonymous sources in the NEC, said the company conducts sales in the reduction of costs and the sale of non-core assets.

According to preliminary data, the company Marubeni Corp and TD Mobile has offered to invest in the NEC Mobiling, but both the buyer until the offer to buy only 51% of the shares, not the entire business completely.

Sources at the NEC said that while NEC decides the fate of the division and the final choice can be made next week.

NEC officially this information does not comment and confirm.

In Japan, NECMobiling owns a chain of retail stores of cellular communication, most of which cater to the cellular company NTT Docomo.

Oracle today announced the acquisition of Tekeles

Oracle today announced the acquisition of Tekeles, manufacturing software and online services to support mobile broadband services.

The portfolio acquired company has solutions for the control of broadband data in wired or wireless networks.

In Oracle said that the new acquisition will allow the company to obtain the solution to get more control over the data in the network and to better manage the information flow between servers, storage systems and users.

It should be noted that the recent takeover was for Oracle is already the second in the last two weeks. March 15 was known to buy the company Nimbula.

Also, it is worth recalling that the Oracle purchase of telecom vendor Tekelec was the second year since the beginning of the acquisition-related telecommunications. In early February, for $ 1.7 billion had bought a company Acme Packet.

Cisco buys SolveDirect

Cisco Systems today announced the acquisition of Austrian SolveDirect, through which she hopes to Cisco to offer new means of connecting to cloud services, and to protect data in the public domain.

Cisco did not publicly disclose the purchase price.

In a statement on the occasion of buying Cisco said that the acquisition will enable Cisco to offer a more unified approach to the management of cloud services that can be created on the basis of products and technologies from different companies.

"Today's SaaS-service providers now spend too much time and effort to support cloud infrastructures. This increases the cost and complexity of the support services ... From SolveDirect products can solve many of the routine tasks associated with cloud products and technologies," - said in a Cisco .

SolverDirect company was founded 13 years ago as a developer of solutions for process management and project collaboration. According to, the conditions, bought the company will join the department Cisco Services Platforms Group.

Sales of video game consoles continue to fall

Analysts say that videootrasl continues to reduce turnover and sales as game consoles and software for them continue to fall. At the end of February in the U.S. has sold video game consoles and games for them at 810 million dollars, which is 25% less than the same period a year earlier. Such data are now leading research firm NPD Group.

Hardware sales for the year fell by 36% in February, the U.S. market accounted for 244.2 million dollars, hardware sales with the implementation of the accessories for them were 352 million dollars - 27% lower than a year earlier.

Game console Microsoft Xbox 360 again topped sales in the U.S. market, the Xbox leader in sales for more than two consecutive years. In February, Microsoft sold 302,000 new consoles, which gives it a 41% market share. The great news is, for the new gaming console Nintendo Wii U, which still continues to be a disappointment to his creator. In January, Nintendo has sold just 57,000 Wii U in the States. However, this number is almost 40% more than in January, making the Nintendo nominal leader in terms of growth. Estimated to NPD, sales from the beginning of the end of last year, Nintendo had sold in the U.S. from 64 to 80 thousand consoles Wii U.

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