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Intel has announced today that it is acquiring software-maker Wind River Systems for $884 million. Wind River makes embedded devices.
Embedded systems and mobile devices include smart phones, mobile Internet devices, other consumer electronics (CE) devices, in-car "info-tainment" systems and other automotive areas, networking equipment, aerospace and defense, energy and thousands of other devices.
Today the company announced its investment in O3b Networks (O3b = Other 3 Billion), which holds as its mission to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to the other 3 billion people on Earth—those finding their existences in remote parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation. You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there. Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world – Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.
Nortel has invested US$10 million in Sasken Communication Technologies Limited for an undisclosed stake in Sasken’s fully diluted equity, the companies announced today.
Amazon.com has invested in the start-up behind folksonomy project 43 Things. Another company, called 37 Signals …
Verizon Delaware customers will soon have improved communications as the result of a more than $600,000 investment the company is making in two of its call-switching centers.
Google is heading a group of investors that are committing nearly $100 million to China’s largest search engine, Baidu.com.
