After the close last night, Verizon (VZ) announced a deal to acquire Terremark (TMRK), a provider of IT management and cloud services, for $19 a share, or $1.4 billion in cash. Basically, Terremark operates 13 data centers - some of the clouds in the cloud computing strategy that is all [...]

This morning I went to a World Economic Forum panel on Redefining Sustainable Development, mostly to hear Bill Gates talk. Also on the panel were Wal-Mart chief executive Mike Duke and three heads of state, Mexico's Felipe Calderon, Finland President Tarja Halonen and Indonesia's Susilan Bambang Yudhoyono. The speaker who made [...]

For the first time in modern history a major Internet economy is being shut down. The Egyptian government appears to have cut off web and mobile phone access to much, if not most of its citizens ahead of a weekend of mass demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak. The country’s controversial president [...]

In an unprecedented move for a major Internet economy, the government of Egypt appears to have cut off web access for most of its citizens. It comes as protestors prepare for a big weekend of demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak, who has been the country's president for nearly 30 years. The shut [...]

Nokia (NOK) remains the world's largest mobile phone company. It is also one of the most clearly vulnerable players in a hugely competitive market. Here's a look at how the leading players did in the latest quarter in terms of sequential unit growth (data compiled by Bernstein Research): HTC:  +33.8% Motorola: +28.9% Research In [...]

Avnet (AVT) CEO Roy Vallee sits in one of the better perches for getting a reading on the overall health of the technology economy. The company's technology services segment is a large distributor of IT products; its electronics marketing arm resells thousands of semiconductor components. If you need an assessment [...]

"] Ryan Terpstra didn’t post Microsoft’s quarterly earnings early. Microsoft did. Terpstra just found them first -- forcing Microsoft to broadly release its numbers before the close of trading Thursday. Terpstra’s 22-person company, Selerity, describes itself as a “low latency, real time-fact aggregation and event data company.” In plain English, Terpstra explains that [...]

The two key players in what’s being dubbed Davos Junior, met through one of the most connected people you don’t know in Silicon Valley. David Hassell, a serial entrepreneur, holds what’s called “The Mansion Series,” a monthly, invite-only dinner of entrepreneurs.  That’s where Thayer Walker, who’s a thrillseeker and adventure [...]

If timing is everything, is LinkedIn's filing of its S-1 for an initial public offering due to the rumblings of a Facebook initial public offering? By going to the public markets ahead of Facebook, the professional networking site can take advantage of the implied valuation of its larger peer without getting [...]

This is so very Marc Benioff. The bombastic chief executive of Salesforce.com is taking his Chatter message to the masses, via two Superbowl ads bookmarking the planned halftime performance by musical band Black Eyed Peas. Salesforce.com Buys Ads Around Super Bowl Halftime - Digits - WSJ. The ad will feature an animated [...]