http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/telefonica-buys-voip-startup-jajah-for-206-million http://tech.peekbase.com/telefonica-buys-voip-startup-jajah-for-206-million#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:20:06 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/telefonica-buys-voip-startup-jajah-for-206-million December 23rd, 2009 Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) is buying up VOIP provider Jajah for $206 million in cash. The company—which had raised $35 million in venture capital funding—had been up for sale for more than a month now and several companies, including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) had also been said to be interested. In recent days, however, there ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/judge-orders-microsoft-to-stop-selling-office-by-january-11th/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/microsoft-loses-patent-appeal-word-and-office-to-be-barred-from-sale-starting-january-11 http://tech.peekbase.com/microsoft-loses-patent-appeal-word-and-office-to-be-barred-from-sale-starting-january-11#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:40:05 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/microsoft-loses-patent-appeal-word-and-office-to-be-barred-from-sale-starting-january-11 December 22nd, 2009 It’s getting closer and closer to check-writing time for Steve Ballmer, as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit has just upheld a decision that would see Microsoft Word and Office banned from sale starting January 11. If you’ll recall, Microsoft lost a patent infringement suit against XML specialists i4i ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/yelp-walks-away-from-google-deal-and-half-a-billion-dollars/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/report-bidding-war-over-o2-rings-up-jajah-for-200-million http://tech.peekbase.com/report-bidding-war-over-o2-rings-up-jajah-for-200-million#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:20:06 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/report-bidding-war-over-o2-rings-up-jajah-for-200-million December 20th, 2009 Last month, we wrote about the VoIP startup Jajah being the target of a bidding war. Today, it appears that war is over, with the winner being O2, and the price being $200 million, according to a report sent out by the financial website TheMarker, and being circulated by Reuters. It was believed that Microsoft and Cisco were ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/report-bidding-war-over-o2-rings-up-jajah-for-200-million/feed 0