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Tribune Buys Gracenote From Sony

The media company is paying $170 million for the service that identifies music and video.

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Micron, Rambus End Long-Running Legal Battles

Micron Technology Inc. and Rambus Inc. said they have ended a series of court battles that stretched for 13 years, with Micron agreeing to pay up to $280 million to Rambus over seven years.

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Applied Materials to Acquire Tokyo Electron

In a deal that would be one of the biggest-ever foreign takeovers of a Japanese firm, Applied Materials Inc. agreed to acquire Tokyo Electron Ltd. to create to create a powerhouse provider of chip manufacturing equipment.

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Ray Dolby’s Passion Led to Better Sound Quality Across Industries

Ray Dolby, who died Thursday at age 80, was an inventor whose passion for better sound influenced the evolution of several industries.

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Amazon’s Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes

To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group.

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IBM Gets Allies to Chip Away at Intel

International Business Machines Corp. has enlisted Google Inc. and some other high-tech allies for a collective effort to catapult an IBM chip technology out of a shrinking niche.

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Intel Technology Chief Rattner to Step Down

One of the most familiar faces at Intel events, Justin Rattner, is giving up the post of chief technology officer at the giant chip maker.

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PC Makers Fight Back Against Mobile Devices

Rocked by the mobile-device movement, personal-computer makers and their partners are planning a counterattack that leans heavily on two weapons: Lower prices and power consumption.

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Google Joins Supercomputing Project

Google Inc. plans to help create a new laboratory to study quantum computing, a high-profile endorsement of the esoteric technology — and a Canadian company that has been pursuing it since 1999.

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Two Views From Samsung About its “Octa” Chip

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Samsung described an unusual eight-brained processor as a major step above competing chips. Now that U.S. buyers will be late to get it, the company is playing down the differences.