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• Inside Google's Advertising Empire Google's announced plans to buy display-ad company Teracent. Here's a look at how the purchase fits into Google's advertising empire and your online life.
• Google Gobbles AdMob as Latest Expansion Analysis: AdMob buyout is Google's third this year, and its acquisitions offer clues to future products and strategy.
• Twitter May be Teasing Google, Microsoft into a Deal The search rivals are reportedly both negotiating with the microblogging site for real-time data.
• Dell Agrees to Buy Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion UPDATE: Dell will make Perot Systems its global services delivery division.
• T-Mobile May Buy Sprint to Create Market Giant, Report Says The number 4 U.S. carrier could leap over the pack to challenge leaders AT&T and Verizon.
• Will a Disney-owned Marvel Do Gaming Differently? Disney is acquiring Marvel for $4 billion, giving Spider-Man some strange new coworkers.
• Nokia Buys Assets of Social Startup Cellity Nokia has agreed to acquire certain assets of Cellity, a startup with a mobile social-networking service that will now be shut down.
• Amazon and Zappos: Oil and Water of Retail Culture Top U.S. retailer Amazon picks up shoe-crazy Zappos, pledging to protect the business's unique, Web 2.0-friendly culture. But will they blend?
• Report: Yahoo's CEO Ready for a Microsoft Deal Yahoo's CEO said she would be open to a Microsoft acquisition if it involved "boatloads of money."
• Sun's History in Pictures Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. This memorial slideshow traces the rise and fall of Sun Microsystems.
• Microsoft Could Be a Winner in Sun-Oracle Deal If Oracle alienates its server partners and lets MySQL languish, Microsoft could be the beneficiary
• Analyst: Oracle Could Axe 10,000 Jobs After Sun Deal Sales and marketing would be hit hardest, one group predicts.
• Oracle, Entering Hardware Arena, Agrees to Buy Sun for $7.4 Billion UPDATE: Oracle CEO Ellison said Java, Solaris are main reasons for acquisition.
• Oracle Agrees to Buy Sun for $7.4B Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market.
• Oracle Agrees to Buy Sun for $7.4B BULLETIN: Deal values company at $9.50 a share
• Who Can Really Raise Twitter Right? Analysis: Is Google or Facebook the better buyer for the microblogging site?
• If IBM Buys Sun, Will Solaris Die? IBM lowers its offer for Sun and keeps pushing, but a deal might kill the Solaris OS in favor of IBM offerings.
• Google Acquisition Rumors Reflect Twitter's Importance Analysis: While an acquisition is unlikely, a formal partnership or collaboration wouldn't be surprising.
• Google Buying Twitter? Depends Whom You Want to Believe Memes don't make it true, especially in the world of Internet buzz; let's take a closer look at the rumor mill.
• Novell May Make More Acquisitions to Fill Product Line Novell plans to use its capital to acquire companies that can help it fill up its product line.
• Lenovo Goes Shopping for PC Makers Lenovo is in discussions with third parties about acquisitions and investment opportunities, the company said on Wednesday.
• $41 Billion Deal to Buy Bell Canada Collapses A $41 billion leveraged buyout of Bell Canada was terminated.
• Microsoft Doesn't Want Yahoo Either Who loves Yahoo? In a bid to partner and/or buy Yahoo those who are courting Yahoo prove fickle.
• Oracle Buys IP From Tacit to Boost Beehive Platform Oracle is buying user profiling technology to give its Beehive platform a boost.
• AOL/Yahoo Merger: Remedy Worse Than the Disease? ANALYSIS: Yahoo's weak stock would get a boost from a merger, but it may create more problems than it solves.