Ryan Naraine

Rival e-business software firms SynQuest , Viewlocity and Tilion on Monday announced a complicated three-way merger deal that includes up to $30 million in new funding to the combined entity. The deal, which signals a trend towards contraction in the e-business services space, first calls for SynQuest to acquire Viewlocitys supply chain event management businesses. […]

RealNetworks Friday breathed a sigh of relief with the news that a baseball strike had been averted and immediately turned its attention to hardcore college football fans, announcing a pay-per-view deal with FOXSports.com to webcast live ‘Big 12’ games. A baseball strike was certain to put a dent into Real’s sports content on the RealOne […]

Cambridge, Mass.-based tech research firm Giga Information Group on Friday announced the departure of CEO Robert Weiler, who quit the post to take over a private Boston area start-up. Weiler resigned his position as Giga’s chairman, effective immediately, but will stick around in the CEO/President slots until October 17 to “assist in the transition process […]

Barring a last-minute ruling from the bankruptcy court on objections to its asset bid, Bertelsmann’s purchase of the controversial file-sharing service Napster will be completed by this weekend. An asset sale hearing has been scheduled for August 29 when a Delaware Bankruptcy Court judge will rule on objections by Napster’s creditors to Bertelsmann’s almost guaranteed […]

South Korea chipmaker Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced plans to pump more than $3 billion into its specialized system chips operations over the next five years. Samsung, which makes DRAM, SRAM and flash memory chips, said the increased investment into its nonmemory chip operations are for system SLI, technology that allows more transistors on a […]

On the eve of the first anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, Motorola has lifted the wraps off a wireless communication system for firefighters in distress. With the plight of firefighters who perished on September 11 on the front burner, Motorola announced its new system, code-named Fireground, would provide improved personnel monitoring, upgraded in-building […]

In its two-year history, Major League’s Baseball’s Internet arm has been a story of swing-and-miss but with the specter of a baseball strike just a week away, there are nervous jitters that money will be flushed down the drain. As millionaires (players) and billionaires (owners) squabble over how to cook the golden egg, executives at […]

After years of thumbing its nose at Apple’s Macintosh OS, Microsoft plans to release a version of its MSN subscription service for Mac users, a move that ups the ante with rival America Online . Microsoft has already lost ground to AOL in the race to embrace Mac enthusiasts and the latest push to introduce […]

StreamCast Networks has added an e-commerce platform to the latest version of the Morpheus peer-to-peer network as it looks to position the popular file-sharing client as a potential money-earner. The latest move to put a storefront within the Morpheus 2.0 upgrade again puts the P2P space at the front and center of the debate into […]

The ongoing patent litigation between ASM Lithography and Nikon Corp. escalated Tuesday with ASML slapping a $95 million lawsuit in a Japan court, accusing Nikon of patent infringement and antitrust violations. The patent squabble between ASML and Nikon have already engaged the attention of courtrooms across the U.S and now ASML has moved to Tokyo […]

Samsung Electronics and SanDisk Corp. have signed a seven-year extension to a deal that covers licensing and supply of flash memory technology, ending a months-old patent infringement squabble. The two sides had sued each other in California and Texas courts earlier this year over patent rights but the new agreements announced Monday have effectively dismissed […]

Struggling to convert its popularity among PDA hipsters into increased revenues, wireless software firm AvantGo, Inc. is making the inevitable free-to-fee jump for its content service. The Hayward, Calif.-based AvantGo won’t scrap the free 2MB version of its service, which pipes content and applications to millions of PDA users but the plan is to charge […]