Industry

Dell completes deal to go private, as product plans remain intact

Michael Dell, with Silver Lake, buys out namesake company for $24.9 billion

ARM delivers first 16-core Mali GPU design

Mali is ARM's most powerful graphics design yet and should help bring capabilities like video-editing and gesture control to smartphones and tablets

Hadoop is not enough for big data, says Facebook analytics chief

Don't discount the value of relational database technology, Ken Rudin tells a big data conference

Motorola’s new smartphone: Digital Legos

Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a modular smartphone, akin to 'Phonebloks' concept, but faces multiple engineering hurdles

Reports: Google close to manufacturing a smartwatch

The device will run Android and will connect to Android phones to pull information from Google Now

APPLE sells more, Cook bullish — Smartphones: Samsung 35%, Apple 13% — HADOOP, cloud king — MOTOROLA’s open-source hardware

Samsung’s share grows while Apple’s declines in Q3 smartphone market

Chinese maker Huawei also increased share to take third place in the smartphone market, Strategy Analytics said

Dell to show off its first 64-bit ARM server

Dell and HP are both moving forward this week with their low-power server plans

Tech spending hurt this year by Congress

Forrester Research makes a deep cut to its U.S. spending forecast for 2013

Apple profit declines as iPad sales flatten

While iPhone shipments grew, Apple's iPad shipments were flat and its Mac shipments declined in the last quarter