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The Brazilian holding company EBX Group,  owned by Brazil’s richest man Eike Batista, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have reached an agreement under which IBM will acquire a 20% stake in …

Spain’s Telefónica(NYSE: TEF) said Monday it has reached an agreement with Colombia‘s government to merge fixed-line operator Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel) with mobile operator Telefonica Moviles Colombia. Telefónica owns 52% of …

Digicel Group announced it has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilà from U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed last Friday. At least for the near term …

Japan’s NEC agreed to acquire Convergys’ information management business for $499 million. NEC said the purchase complements its NetCracker Technology acquisition and solidifies its focus on expanding its reach into …

Cisco Systems announced its intent to acquire NDS Group for approximately $5 billion. NDS provides video software and content security solutions designed to enable service providers and media companies to …

Avaya announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Radvision, a provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks for approximately $230 million. The proposed deal calls …

Looking to extend its cloud computing platform, Oracle said it has entered into an agreement to acquire cloud-based talent management provider Taleo for $46 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, …

Mexican broadcaster Televisa’s plan to acquire half of cellphone company Iusacell has been rejected by Mexican anti-monopoly regulator Federal Competition Commission (Cofeco).

Citing plans to expand its operations in mobile application development, integration, security and management, IBM (IBM) reported a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Israeli-based Worklight, a provider of mobile software …

DirecTV’s Latin America subsidiary Sky Brazil announced its plans to acquire Acom Comunicacoes SA, provider of pay-TV and Internet broadband services through multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS). Sky, which did …

Although we first heard about it a few weeks ago, today Twitter has gone official with their purchase of UK-based Tweetdeck, makers of the popular desktop social media client of the same name. The papers were finally signed yesterday, with Twitter reportedly paying between $40 million and $50 million in cash and stock.

Strategically teaming up as OS partners may not be enough for Microsoft when it comes to Nokia, according to Nokia watcher Eldar Murtazin, claiming the Finnish firm is in talks to sell off its entire handset division to the software giant.

International Business News  | February 2011 | Alex He China’s Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service “PPTV”, said on Thursday that Japan’s Softbank has acquired …

Reuters | January 27, 2011 | Ho Binh Minh HANOI – Vietnam’s FPT Corp FPT.HM, a major company in the telecoms, software and technology sectors, and an affiliate are to …

Reuters | January 19, 2011 | Samantha Pearson * Portugal Telecom to end up with 25.6 pct stake-newspaper * Oi to take care of fixed-line and mobile services * PT …

TechFaith | January 6, 2011 | Press Release BEIJING, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (Nasdaq: CNTF) (“TechFaith” or the “Company”) today announced that its …

Philippine Business Inquirer | January 3, 2011 | Doris Dumlao MANILA, Philippines—San Miguel Corp. has expanded its presence in the highly competitive telecommunications business with the acquisition of a 40-percent …

StockBriefings | Sammy Daniels | January 3, 2011 Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) Siemens has revealed delays in Motorola network assets acquisition. Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) stocks are currently standing at 10.32. Nokia …

TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand …

Bloomberg | Diana ben-Aaron and Katie Hoffmann | December 29, 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks, the world’s second-largest maker of wireless phone systems, said the wait for antitrust approval from China …

Good Morning Colombia | December 26th, 2010 The board of the mobile phone giant has approved the purchase of 93.26 percent ofof the Mexican company with presence in the country …