Staples is buying Office Depot in a $6 billion deal that will generate an office-supply mega-chain. http://staples.newshq.businesswire.com/press-release/corporate/staples-inc-announces-acquisition-office-depot-inc Staples, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Office Depot, Inc. | Staples Online Newsroom staples.newshq.businesswire.com FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) and Office Depot, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODP) today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Staples will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Office Depot. ...

Uber is tapping with CMU to compete with Google in self driving cars. Uber and CMU Announce Strategic Partnership and Advanced… blog.uber.com Uber and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are announcing today a strategic partnership that includes the creation of the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, near the CMU campus. The center will focus on the development of key long-term technologies that advance Uber’s mission of…

OnePlus has put a name to its own upcoming ROM: OxygenOS. https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/meet-the-oneplus-rom-oxygenos.256294/ Meet the OnePlus ROM: OxygenOS - OnePlus Forums forums.oneplus.net As many of you know, we will be launching our own ROM in the near future. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what this ROM means to us and our fans….

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft plans to be “a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing that values Cyanogen in the high hundreds of millions.” Why is this important? Because Cyanogen CEO Kirt has openly declared that his company’s goal is to end Google’s control over Android and make it a truly open-source mobile platform that many have long hoped for. Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen blogs.wsj.com Microsoft is investing in Cyanogen, a startup building a version of the Android mobile-operating system outside of Google’s auspices. ...

Flash is almost dead, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the beta versions of Firefox.

iOS 8.1.3 is available now with a note saying that it will reduce the amount of storage required. Remember people yelling at Apple about storage issues for software update?

According to a Forbes report, IBM is laying off more than 110,000 employees, that’s 26% of the company’s workforce. http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertcringely/2015/01/22/next-weeks-bloodbath-at-ibm-wont-fix-the-real-problem/ Next Week’s Bloodbath At IBM Won’t Fix The Real Problem www.forbes.com I’ve been hearing since before Christmas about Project Chrome, the code name for what has been touted to me as the biggest reorganization in IBM history. Well, Project Chrome is finally upon us, triggered I suppose by this week’s announcement of an 11th consecutive quarter of declining revenue for I… ...

Expedia is buying online travel company Travelocity for $280 million in cash.

Expedia is buying online travel company Travelocity for $280 million in cash.

Microsoft just released a new build (January) of Windows 10 to members of its Windows Insider Program. Some notable features in this build - Cortana on the desktop, updated start menu, new Xbox app, and more. January build now available to the Windows Insider Program blogs.windows.com Hi everyone, I hope that you were able to watch our live stream yesterday, where we shared more details on the Windows 10 experience. If you missed it, you can watch the video on demand anytime and… ...