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Blackstone and TPG are among those in talks with NSN, the joint venture, about investing $1bn for a minority stake in the mobile infrastructure company

The surprise decision by the accounting software group has left the door open to HgCapital and Cinven, the remaining private equity bidders

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest technology company by sales, unveils record operating profits but warns profitability could sag in the second half of the year due to a difficult consumer climate

Retired CIA chief Michael Hayden added his voice to an effort by the Obama administration and its allies to damp down talk of a "cyberwar" with China

Google said that its search and advertising services were being blocked in China for first time since its groundbreaking compromise with the Chinese government earlier this month

The Japanese electronics and entertainment group reports an unexpectedly strong first quarter marked by robust sales of flat-screen televisions and PlayStation video game consoles

Japanese electronics group bets on the future of green energy by offering to buy out minority shareholders in two subsidiaries specialising in lithium-ion batteries, solar cells and other environmental technology

The US mobile phone retailer intends to open outlets in most of Target's discount stores, as it faces a drive by rivals Best Buy and Walmart into the rapidly expanding wireless business

Motorola, the US mobile phone handset maker, said profits surged in the second quarter, aided by the popularity of its popular Google Android-powered Droid X smartphone

Japanese electronics company is in search of a niche it can dominate

Last November, Amazon.com, the online retailer, flew a dozen of the top US literary agents to a day-long meeting at the company's Seattle headquarters to try to tone down its image as the 800-pound gorilla of bookselling

Amazon is aiming to take digital reading into the mainstream as it rolls out a new generation of its Kindle e-reader ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season

Chip designer's shares fall 14 per cent after gloomy forecast points to constraints at chip foundries and uncertain economic outlook

Software group Sage is expected to outbid buy-out groups HgCapital and Cinven to acquire Italian business software company TeamSystem for up to €650m

Lord Browne, the former BP chief executive, has sparked a furious row by calling for a review of the UK's £4bn-a-year science budget to emphasise projects with the potential to bring short-term industrial benefits

The world's third-largest maker of mobile phones reports a steep fall in quarterly operating profit, hit by a loss in its mobile phone division as it falls behind rivals in launching new smartphones

German chipmaker reports 59% boost to its quarterly revenues just a year after a turnround brought about by a mixture of cost cuts, a capital increase and a rapid upturn in global demand

The business software maker slightly raises its guidance for the full year, a move seen as overly cautious by analysts who had expected a bolder forecast

After protracted delays, the government has instructed Ofcom to co-ordinate the bidding process for 2.1GHz and 800MHz spectrum by the end of 2011 to enable improved wireless broadband services

Indian outsourcer company plans to expand its workforce by a quarter to help drive expansion into fast-growing emerging markets