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The Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch. [credit: Valentina Palladino ] It's official: Google is buying Fitbit. The company announced the move in a blog post this morning, and reports say the deal is...

Enlarge / From left to right: the iPhone 8, the iPhone XS, the iPhone XR, and the iPhone XS Max. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple today announced that it will acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion. The acquisition will bring 2,200 Intel employees under Apple's...

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Apple is in the final stages of negotiations to buy the bulk of Intel's modem chip business, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal says the deal, valued at $1 billion or more, could be finalized in the...

Enlarge Microsoft has reached an agreement to buy GitHub, the source repository and collaboration platform, in a deal worth $7.5 billion. The all-stock deal is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval in the US and EU. Decade-old GitHub is built on Git, the...

(credit: Julien GONG Min / Flickr) Microsoft has posted the results of the third quarter of its 2018 financial year, running up until March 31, 2018. Revenue was $26.8 billion, up 16 percent year on year; operating income was $8.3 billion, up 23 percent; net income was $7.4 billion, up 35...

Broadcom Ltd.’s plan to buy Qualcomm Inc. would have far-reaching implications for the electronics market. Consider the impact on the iPhone. The Apple Inc. device is so dependent on chips made by the companies, as well as parts from another chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to acquire, that...