San Jose Business News

U.S. technology giant Cisco said Tuesday it had spent a second $3 billion in October, this time buying Starent Networks, a mobile phone support company. Two weeks ago, Cisco said it reached a definitive agreement to purchase Norwegian teleconferencing firm...

EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service. Last week, the online auction site settled a legal skirmish with co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus...

Regulators granted Adobe Systems Inc. an early end to the legal waiting period in its acquisition of software maker Omniture Inc., the company said Tuesday. The waiting period on acquisitions is required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976....

Calif. — Networking gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent as hefty costs offset a surge in revenue, but reiterated its guidance for fiscal 2010. Net income in the three months ended Oct....

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday it has charged former executives at semiconductor company Tvia Inc. with improperly inflating the company's revenue...An attorney for Silva did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday afternoon. The SEC also alleged...

It's the first phone to run Android 2.0, the latest version of Google's smartphone operating system. It's the first Android phone offered by Verizon, which is reputed to have the best wireless network in the nation. And it's the first...