You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere.

Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium  over yesterday’s market price.

The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion.

The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business would prove out to be profitable for Nokia Siemens, as they now achieve #3 spot in Top wireless network vendors in the United States and hence expand business propositions with Motorola’s existing customers.

Google has acquired BumpTop, an application that turns your Mac and Windows Desktop into Rich 3D experience.

3D desktops can add a lot of utility to your multitasking. We’ve seen how we can get a 3D desktop on Ubuntu, Bumptop adds the third dimension to both Windows and Mac to make it look like a “Real world desktop”. You can create visual “piles” of files or stick notes to the wall, size design, layout everything is there after fully customizable. In addition, there’s also a cool search feature that’s invoked .. Read Further »

Since long, Google wanted you to set iGoogle as your homepage. No wonder, iGoogle gives you a number of useful widgets from email to social apps but most of the time you prefer sticking with blank Homepages.

When Google started with iGoogle, one of the first companies to design AJAXy widgets was LabPixies. Over the years, Google worked closely together on a variety of projects, including the launch of a number of global OpenSocial based gadgets. And finally, .. Read Further »

Bharti Airtel, India’s mobile and Internet services giant having 118 million subscribers, will acquire 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom International, 4th largest  mobile operator in Bangladesh.

The acquisition is estimated to be around $300 million. As a result of the deal, Bharti Airtel control of the management and the board of Warid.

Airtel has long aspired to expand into international market, and this becomes the second practical step. In actual, this was the third attempt, the last one was with MTN Group, South Africa which didn’t get through approval from government. In addition to this years’ deal, last year also Airtel launched operations in Sri Lanka where it fetched over 1 million customers.