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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday.  Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:49:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GetPDF Splitter Merger 3.01 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1170683]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With GetPDF Splitter Merger, it&apos;s easy to split a PDF file into several single-page PDF files, or save selected pages as new PDF files. You also can merge more than two PDF files in a custom sequence into one PDF document, which preserves the look and feel of the original...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[X2X Free Video Audio Merger 1.0 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1144635]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[X2X Free Video Audio Merger can merge and join several audio or video files into a single output file. It provides many options for formats and qualities of the merged file. There are three formats: MP4, AVI and MP3. There are several qualities options. X2X Free VideoAudio Merger has a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gallery: Ballmer-Bartz ink Microhoo deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer poses with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz as they sign a 10-year pact where Microsoft will power Yahoo search and Yahoo becomes the sales force for Microsoft's premium properties. by Andy Smith]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:18:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AWinware PDF Splitter Merger Software 1.0.1.2 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1158021]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[PDF splitter merger software is useful tool to create a new custom PDF file by removing and adding pages. PDF combiner tool easily convert multiple PDF pages into single PDF document. Free download PDF divider software to break a single PDF file into multiple PDF pages according to user setting....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NetApp, Data Domain merger nixed; EMC wins with $2.1 billion bid]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20857]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[NetApp couldn't outbid EMC for Data Domain. The company said Wednesday that it wouldn't up its offer for Data Domain and a proposed merger agreement was terminated. EMC will now acquire Data Domain for $33.50 a share in cash.    On Monday, EMC offered $2.1 billion for Data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:23:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BizBee File Merger 1.0.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1023385]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a software tool that can merge multiple text files as you require? BizBee File Merger is the one you are looking for.It will be very helpful tool if you are a data steward or data analyst or stactician or database developer or database administrator. The application is very...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NetApp, Data Domain ink revised deal; EMC says bid still superior]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19212]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated: NetApp and Data Domain said late Wednesday that they have entered a $1.9 billion merger agreement.Â     Under the pact, Data Domain's board has approved NetApp's latest offer, worth $30 a share in cash and stock. NetApp earlier in the day upped its bid for NetApp to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:17:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NetApp ups ante for Data Domain; Not giving into EMC easily]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19157]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[NetApp on Wednesday upped its offer for Data Domain to $30 a share in cash and stock in a deal valued at $1.9 billion.Â       NetApp offered to buy Data Domain for $1.5 billion, but then was trumped days later by rival EMC, which offered $1.8...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Easy Pdf Merger 5.2 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988127]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Easy Pdf Merger Free is a simple, lightning-fast and free desktop utility program that lets you free combine two or more Acrobat PDF files into a single PDF document. Its easy-to-use interface allows you to merge PDF files by simply few clicks. Easy Pdf Merger Free provides special merge methods...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emulex to Broadcom's merger overture: No thanks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17430]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Emulex on Monday said its board has rejected Broadcom's unsolicited takeover offer at $9.25 a share.Â     In a statement, Paul Folino, chairman of Emulex's board, said the Broadcom offer was an "opportunistic attempt" to get the company on the cheap. Emulex argued that Broadcom knew that the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:02:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The coming merger of Netbooks and handhelds]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=61495&messageID=1133052&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The coming merger of Netbooks and handheldsGood points, but, the wild card here is Arm, and Android runs on Arm.Arm can give the same performance as Atom at a lower price, and at a fraction of the power consumption.So, looking forward to Netbooks based on Arm kits from Freescale, TI,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:26:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The coming merger of Netbooks and handhelds]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3643]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel is rolling out a new line of Atom chips, which power most Netbooks, for mobile devices.    With Android moving into Netbooks, you can expect a merger between the Netbook and mobile form factor very soon.    How soon? Try months.    Intel...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:09:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?RE: Solaris and JavaI can't help but wonder what HP would do to Sun's software assets in the event of cutting operating costs. economic downturn etcSeeing as they're fundamentally of a hardware mindset.It would be beneficial to their survival (Solaris & Java), if...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:11:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=386]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard and Sun will announce details of "their newly expanded partnership agreement" Wednesday morning. Might this be a step towards a merger?    I've long been a proponent of a HP/Sun combination, there are some strong synergies such as:    +Both have strong and green datacenter...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:47:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SOA repositories pave the way for financial mergers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1254]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We've been speculating that SOA and integration proponents would be kept very busy with all the shotgun weddings and all other manner of turmoil going on within the financial services sector.Â  ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner has just released a discussion with Harry Karr and Hemesh Yadav, IT architects at Wachovia,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:19:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo to name Bartz CEO; Now the fun begins]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo to name Bartz CEO; Now the fun beginsmerger mayhemIf Yahoo had succumbed to the M$ takeover - the outcome would have been the M$ acquisition of the search feature, the anihilation of the downloadable office package [why would M$ allow this to exist when they are SELLING their inferior...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[i2, JDA call off merger]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11089]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[JDA and i2 said they are calling off their supply chain wedding plans amid an uncertain economic picture.    In August statement, JDA agreed to buy i2 for $346 million, or $14.86 a share, in cash. On Wednesday, i2 shares closed at $7.70. JDA was going to finance...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:53:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1227]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[These are times that try banks' souls.Â  Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins.    It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at these organizations in recent years may have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Infoalp PDF Splitter & Merger 4.0.1.5 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1175569]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[PDF Splitter & Merger is a handy and user-friendly PDF tool making splitting and merging PDFs.PDF Splitter & Merger is a PDF tool developed for quicker and more efficient access to information needed from your PDF files, reorganizing them in a way that makes them easier to manage and handle....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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