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BlackBerry offers itself up to six would-be buyers; Cisco looks like the best fit

The company has also asked SAP, Google, Intel, Samsung, and LG whether they're interested

Pivotal adds mobile platform development with Xtreme Labs acquisition

VMware- and EMC-backed startup moves beyond cloud, big data, and platform as a service by adding mobile to the mix

Google modifies Analytics in EU-wide privacy concession

Google will give EU Google Analytics customers a supplemental data processing agreement requested by privacy regulators

SDN pioneers share their secrets

Training, planning and testing are key to software-defined networking rollouts

Report: FBI can’t access Silk Road owner’s $80 million in bitcoins

FBI seized Ross Ulbricht's bitcoin wallet, but encryption is keeping them from funneling out its estimated $80 million contents

Google’s new desktop strategy: Invade and conquer

Google's new strategy to make Chrome OS into everyone's OS: Build it straight into Windows by way of Chrome itself

Fed may auction seized BITCOINS — ‘PRISM on steroids’ for Sochi Olympics — TWITTER hiding financial data — MONGODB takes NYC with $1.2B valuation

Business as usual for tech, but government crisis casts shadows

A month-long stoppage would impact U.S. tech spending, a debt default could have disastrous consequences

Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Social networking giant uses software defined networking to wrest more control of its network gear from vendors

U.S. ranks fourth in Internet freedom as surveillance grows worldwide

The U.S. still cracks the top five in Internet freedom, as surveillance appears to be a common trend worldwide