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Starbucks Squares Up August 08, 2012 
Starbucks has selected Square to process mobile payments at its approximately 7,000 stores nationwide in the United States, in a move that could shake up the nascent mobile payments market in the country. The coffee company had introduced the first mobile payment via iPhone app in 2009.
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Apple's Fancy New Social Play August 08, 2012 
Recent reports suggest Apple might be weighing a jump into the online social world. With Facebook and Google bringing in ad revenue and additional exposure from their social networks, the company may be looking to invest in a social startup of its own. Apple is reportedly in talks to purchase The Fancy, a social e-commerce site that has been likened to Pinterest.
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Best Buy Founder Makes His Move August 07, 2012 
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze has submitted a written proposal to buy the electronics retail chain in a deal that would value the company at as much as $8.8 billion. Schulze is currently the company's largest stakeholder with about a 20 percent share of the business. He stepped down as chairman of the company he founded in June amid a scandal involving CEO Brian Dunn and a female employee.
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AT&T Snatches More Spectrum With NextWave Buy August 03, 2012 
AT&T announced plans to buy NextWave Wireless in a $600 million deal aimed at boosting its spectrum holdings as the company attempts to meet skyrocketing demand from smartphone and other mobile device users. If the agreement is approved, AT&T will acquire NextWave's Wireless Communication Services and Advanced Wireless Service bands.
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Apple's AuthenTec Deal May Truly Trouble Competition July 30, 2012 
Apple wants to purchase security product maker AuthenTec for about $360 million. AuthenTec's users include Apple arch-rival Samsung, HP, and Portugal Telecom. "This [technology] will first go into tablets and laptops to conform with business offerings, and, second, become a weapon in [Apple's] ongoing battles with a variety of companies, but mostly Samsung," said tech analyst Rob Enderle.
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Ouya, OnLive Shaking Up Video Game World July 27, 2012 
Ouya, the recently unveiled video game system, on Friday announced a content deal that will make OnLive's cloud gaming service available on the console when it launches next year. Ouya has certainly gotten its kickstart. In fact, the company, which has been looking to Kickstarter to raise funding for the development of its open source-based console, has seen investments surpass the $5.5 million mark.
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Virgin Media's Multimillion-Dollar Usain Bolt Ad Campaign Banned July 25, 2012 
A British watchdog has banned an advertising campaign by Virgin Media which used Usain Bolt because of claims Bolt makes about super-fast broadband, according to The Guardian. The ad campaign, which cost Virgin millions of dollars, showed Bolt, a gold medal-winning Jamaican sprinter, mimicking Virgin's founder to promote the company's goal of doubling broadband Internet speeds.
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Patent Foes Band Together for NTP Settlement July 24, 2012 
NTP, the patent-holding company that won $612.5 million in a 2006 case against RIM, announced Monday it has reached a settlement with 13 of the biggest players in the tech industry. Since NTP held eight U.S. patents relating to wireless email delivery, it battled most of the major smartphone manufacturers, vendors and the providers that transfer email across wireless systems.
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Can Sparrow Teach Gmail to Sing? July 23, 2012 
Google has acquired Sparrow, the maker of an email client available for various platforms, including Apple's iOS and Mac OS X. The news comes one week after Sparrow announced that its product is ready for Mac OS X Mountain Lion and for Apple's Retina Display technology.
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Viacom, DirecTV Mend Fences - but at What Cost? July 20, 2012 
DirecTV subscribers will soon be able to get their MTV, as well as their daily fix of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, plus Nickelodeon and the 14 channels owned by Viacom, under a new agreement the two companies announced on Friday. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, it appears that Viacom will receive more than $600 million a year in programming fees from satellite operator DirecTV.
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Google to EU: Let's Make a Deal July 17, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Google revises its offer in an attempt to settle the EU's antitrust investigation. Also: A handful of publishing companies are suing a popular file-sharing site in Poland; a pair of South Korean companies get into a spat about technology theft; and Samsung plops down big money for a British wireless technology company.
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Dancing at the Edge of Technological Possibility July 17, 2012 
Overall, the deal between Intel and ASML is pretty straightforward: Intel agreed to commit about $1.0B to ASML R&D programs to accelerate deployment of new technologies for 450mm microprocessor wafers and extreme ultraviolet lithography by as much as two years.
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Microsoft, NBC Part Ways July 16, 2012 
The MS part of MSNBC.com has pulled out of the joint venture. This ends the partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast. In 2005, Microsoft sold its stake in the MSNBC cable channel to NBC, and it now will sell its 50 percent interest in the website for an undisclosed amount.
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Verizon May Be On Course for DoJ Showdown July 13, 2012 
Verizon's $3.9 billion bid for spectrum from a consortium of cable providers could be in jeopardy, with news surfacing Friday of the DoJ's fear that a cross-marketing deal within the larger deal could reduce competition for landline Internet service. DoJ's concern reportedly stems from Verizon's agreement to jointly market wireless and landline Internet services with cable providers.
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Digg Hits Rock Bottom July 13, 2012 
Once-prominent social news aggregator Digg has announced its sale to Betaworks, which will fold Digg into its News.me daily briefing service. After Digg's startup launch in 2004, it quickly became one of the most popular social sites on the Web by letting users collect their own assortment of digital news and content and vote on their favorites.
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Oracle Adds Involver to Its Social Stable July 11, 2012 
Oracle is snapping up another social media company: It announced this week that it has entered into an agreement to buy Involver, a platform provider of SML, or social markup language. SML is a developer tool used to create customized marketing applications for social media sites and Web campaigns.
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Andreessen Horowitz Bets Big on GitHub July 10, 2012 
Andreessen Horowitz is investing $100 million in GitHub, the San Francisco startup that provides online resources for software programmers. It's the largest investment the venture capital firm has ever made. Github's acceptance of the cash is notable. Unlike many startups, the company has been profitable since its 2008 beginnings, and it's turned down investment offers in the past.
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Intel Pumps $4.1B Into Dutch Chip Tool Builder July 10, 2012 
Today in international news: Intel invests billions in a Dutch semiconductor equipment maker; Kickstarter heads to the UK; NBC Universal unveils its Olympic streaming package for subscribers only; and the extradition hearing for Megaupload's Kim Dotcom will have to wait.
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Amazon May Be Closing Its Map Gap July 06, 2012 
Amazon has acquired 3D-mapping startup UpNext, according to a report earlier this week. Mapping functionality has become a must-have feature for mobile device makers, but that alone may not explain what Amazon is planning for UpNext. Amazon's tablet, the Kindle Fire, does not sport a GPS radio.
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Dell Moves 1 Step Closer to End-to-End July 06, 2012 
Dell's announcement of its planned Quest Software acquisition seemed more inevitable than surprising. Quest had been in play since March, when it said investment firm Insight Venture Partners offered $23 per share, or about $2 billion, for the company. The price jumped when an unidentified player entered the bidding against Insight and its ally Vector Capital.
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