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• 15 April 2013

• News: Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel

  Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank.

• News: Shopping the Chrome Web Store: name brands, knock-offs and no-shows

  When I set out to shop the Chrome Web Store, I wasn't just browsing for fun. The The Chromebook Pixel's many charms had lured me toward Google's Web-centric Chrome OS, but I needed to know whether it offered an ecosystem I could live with long-term--especially since I'd be leaving behind all the Windows applications I've used for years. The Chromebook's popularity has only increased over the past year, so I couldn't be the only Windows user with a wandering eye.

• News: EXCLUSIVE: Computerlinks extends distie deal with Exinda

  Network performance vendor, Exinda, has signed a distribution deal with Computerlinks Australia, extending on its partnership in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

• News: Chinese iPhone dealers dupe Apple with fake components

  A group of Chinese iPhone distributors have been arrested for duping Apple with fake components in order to obtain replacement parts worth about 400,000 yuan (US$64,117).

• News: Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel

  Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank.

• News: EU's proposed Google antitrust settlement angers search rivals

  Complainants in the European Union's antitrust case against Google said Monday that the company's proposed remedies could be worse than the current situation.

• News: Arris cleared by DOJ to acquire Motorola's set-top box business

  Arris Group has received clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice for its proposed acquisition of the Motorola Home business.

• 13 April 2013

• News: How much tax do big tech companies pay?

  Large U.S. tech companies should pay income taxes of about 35 percent on the profits they make (above $18.3 million) from business done in the United States. So says the tax code.

• 12 April 2013

• News: Rackspace challenges lawsuit-happy patent holder

  Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year.

• News: MetroPCS gives shareholders more time to consider T-Mobile bid

  MetroPCS has pushed back a hotly anticipated shareholder meeting that will decide the fate of the carrier's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA.

• News: Air Force reclassification of cyber tools as weapons sparks speculation

  One expert suggests the move is designed to deter nations from launching cyberattacks. Another: To drum up funding support from Congress

• News: Industry group attacks EU plans to overhaul copyright enforcement law

  Organizations representing Europe's electronic communications industry on Friday urged the European Commission not to change the directive on the civil enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED).

• News: Twitter buys Brisbane music startup

  Twitter has acquired Brisbane music startup We Are Hunted, the startup confirmed.

• News: How Benchmarking Can Improve IT Outsourcing Deals

  As IT outsourcing has evolved so, too, have IT outsourcing customers' benchmarking needs. As a result, a new approach to benchmarking is necessary, a new method for establishing new and better ways of operating. Kathy Rudy, partner with outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group (ISG), discusses pros and cons of benchmarking for transformation and how to do it right.

• News: Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

  Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year.

• News: UK investigates unfair trade in children's game apps

  The U.K. Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into free children's game apps to explore whether these games are misleading, commercially aggressive or otherwise unfair.

• News: Infosys' profit drops in 'challenging' market

  Indian outsourcer Infosys saw its profit drop even as revenue grew in the first quarter, as margins were hit by staff salary increases, and investments and acquisitions by the company in new technology areas and markets.

• News: Intel sets up joint lab with China's Baidu for mobile apps

  Intel is hoping to get more Chinese developers to back its products by forming a new joint innovation lab with the nation's largest search engine Baidu.

• News: Despite layoffs, Ambrosia says it's still in business

  Ambrosia Software--the maker of Snapz Pro X, Soundboard, and other popular utilities and games on Apple platforms--on Thursday fended off suggestions it was going out of business, even as employees of the company reported being laid off.

• 11 April 2013

• News: White House signals it won't support CISPA in present form

  In what's quickly turning out to be a replay of events from last year, the White House today signaled that it would not support the recently reintroduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its present form.

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