Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas [...]

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Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA”) (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that a wholly owned subsidiary of EA commenced a tender offer for all of the currently outstanding shares of common stock of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”) (NASDAQ:TTWO) for $26.00 per share in cash.
The offer is valued at approximately $2 billion and represents a 64% premium over Take-Two’s [...]

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Bentley Motors has announced its financial results for the year ending 31 December 2007, reporting record revenue and operating profit. For the calendar year, Bentley increased its net revenue by €36m or 2.7% compared with 2006, to set a new record of €1.37bn. Operating profit increased by €18m or 13.1% to a new operating profit [...]

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SEGA of America, Inc. announced today that it has named Sean Ratcliffe vice president of marketing effective March 3, 2008. Mr. Ratcliffe brings to SEGA more than 15 years of experience in successfully building mass-market brands and growing video game businesses for major global entertainment companies including Disney Interactive Studios, LEGO Interactive and EA SPORTS.
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the appointment of Ahmed Mahmoud as CIO. He brings more than 20 years of enterprise information technology (IT) leadership experience, most recently as vice president of IT at Dell. Mahmoud will be responsible for managing the company’s global technology infrastructure, and will play a key role ensuring that AMD continues [...]

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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.

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Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) issued its first branded payment cards with MasterCard Worldwide today. This suite of payment cards includes the Ameriprise World Elite MasterCard, Ameriprise World MasterCard and Ameriprise MasterCard cards as well as the Ameriprise Bank Debit MasterCard.

The World and World Elite MasterCard cards offer the ability to earn points towards numerous rewards, [...]

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Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced that Stu Reed, formerly the president of Motorola’s Mobile Devices business, has decided to leave the Company, effective immediately.
Mr. Reed and his team launched a number of key initiatives important to the Mobile Devices business that the Company will continue to drive and expand upon.

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Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL) (TSX:CRE) today announced that Mark Hilton has been named Senior Vice President, Product Management & Marketing, Digital Media. Hilton will oversee all product management and product marketing functions for Corel’s complete portfolio of products for photo and video editing, as well as DVD authoring and playback.
Prior to joining Corel, Hilton was Adobe’s [...]

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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it received a general engineering services contract from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to provide professional services support to the Office of the Chief Engineer for the development, operation, maintenance, and construction of the state highway system.
Officials did not disclose the value of the 5-year contract.

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