Software developer Microsoft Corporation ( MSFT ) has agreed to buy Swedish company Mojang AB, developer of the popular game Minecraft, for $2 billion to boost its Xbox and mobile businesses. Minecraft, first released for personal computers in 2009,
Intel recently unveiled its next generation Core M (Broadwell) CPUs. Core M processors are about 50% smaller and 30% thinner than Intel’s Haswell (Core i3, i5, i7) chips, with a 60% lower idle power level for
Microsoft ( MSFT ) acquired Nokia’s devices and services unit for $7.2 billion in a transaction that closed last April. At the ongoing IFA event in Germany, Microsoft leveraged the fruits of this acquisition with the planned launch of three