HTC may announce Thursday it’s going to spend $US500 million to acquire a 51 per cent stake in Beats Electronics, the company behind Beats By Dr Dre. Beats will operate independently and its audio technology will land in HTC’s handsets. [CNET and AllThingsD]
The latest rumour out of TechCrunch claims Electronic Arts may scoop up casual gaming company PopCap for a cool $US1 billion.
A report from the Los Angeles Times suggests it was Yahoo! that approached Hulu about a possible acquisition. Yes, the popular video streaming service could become a Yahoo property and hopefully not die a slow, painful death like Delicious or become stagnant like Flickr. [LA Times]
Google’s not saying much about it, but one can’t help but think the company’s late-week acquisition of open-source home theatre and DVR software developer SageTV is related to its struggling Google TV offering.
No big surprise here. Twitter’s finally confirmed it’s purchasing TweetDeck for $US40 million. Twitter now owns one of the top Twitter and social network clients on the planet. Let’s hope they don’t trash the columns. (And keep it open to other social networks LinkedIn, Facebook and FourSquare, guys.) [CNN Money via TechMeme]
