Apple’s New iPad Will Be Sold in 56 Countries by the End of April

The rollout of Apple’s new iPad continues apace, with the company bringing it to dozens of additional countries in the next two weeks.
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Cisco Acquires Israeli Video Software Firm NDS for $5 Billion

Cisco has confirmed a reported deal to acquire NDS, which specializes in software for video set-top boxes.
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CBS’s “60 Minutes” Casts Its Eye on Stuxnet Worm

The popular TV news show revisits the subject of cyberwar with a profile of the worm that is said to have damaged Iran’s nuclear program.
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Samsung Says Not Involved in Israeli Ad That Has Iran Upset

The Korean electronics firm says it had no part in an ad done by an Israeli cable company that shows one of its tablets blowing up an Iranian nuclear facility.
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Akamai Confirms the Rumors, Nabs Cotendo for $268 Million

Akamai confirms the rumors, and nabs Israeli content-distribution start-up Cotendo, apparently outbidding Juniper in the process.
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Apple Joins the Flash Madness Club With Anobit Deal

Flash memory has some troubles that an Israeli company call Anobit appears to know how to solve. Apple is the world’s biggest consumer of flash memory, so naturally it appears to have consumed Anobit.
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Apple Reportedly Closes Anobit Deal for up to $500 Million

If true, the deal would follow an Apple pattern: Spend relatively smallish amounts to pick up technology vendors it is already using.
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Korea’s Pantech to Use Kinect-Like Gesture Recognition in Android Phones

The phone maker plans to use technology from Israel’s eyeSight Mobile Technologies to allow hand gestures to perform tasks such as answering calls and playing music.
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eBay Bets on Social Commerce With Acquisition of the Gifts Project

EBay is announcing this morning that it has bought a company to bolster its efforts in social commerce.
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Jive Acquires OffiSync, Socializes Microsoft Office and Outlook

Social Enterprise software player Jive Software makes its second acquisition in as many months, and aims to make Microsoft Office and Outook more social. So when is the IPO already?
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Google Rocks Real-Time Search

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