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When I first started truly reporting on the tech world there were two power houses making CPUs. You had AMD on one side and Intel on the other. There were a few other companies that were making x86 compatibles, but no one was close to putting out processors in the numbers that AMD and Intel were. Intel was the king with a massive chunk of the market share. After a few deals with DEC and Samsung AMD came up with a CPU and chipset that changed the mind of many enthusiast and started the era of real performance competition between the two.

Facebook went shopping once again. After the $20 billion spent on WhatsApp and Instagram, to name just a bigger acquisitions, another mobile application - Moves, will be assimilated.

According to information from the Wall Street Journal, Snapchat once again rejected Facebook's bid. Although this time they offered three times higher price, it did not make any difference.

The famous eBay just bought startup company Decide based in the Seattle for an unknown amount. Decide offers users market research services to help them decide what is the best buy option before the purchase.

In the report to U.S. regulators Google revealed that since the beginning of 2013 theytook over 16 other companies, for which they spent 1.31 billion U.S. dollars.