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Fujitsu wants to shop til it drops, aiming to snap up companies that can ramp up its growth. Cloud computing ranks high on its list, and the company is also eyeing middleware companies.

Toshiba and Fujitsu are reportedly in talks to merge their mobile-phone businesses. This would create Japan's second-largest cell-phone maker in a rapidly consolidating market.

Is News Corp. (NWS) developing its own rival to the Kindle, or isn't it? Earlier this year, chairman Rupert Murdoch revealed that the company was in talks to invest in the development of an e-reader along the lines of Amazon's popular device. And as recently as today, TheStreet.com, which...

In November 2007, when Amazon (AMZN) unveiled its e-reading device, the Kindle, I wrote a column predicting that it would fail to find traction, given its cost ($399) and the cost of downloaded books (around $10 per). Boy, was my crystal ball cracked. A Citigroup analyst estimates that Amazon sold...