Sonny and Cher. Lennon and McCartney. John and Taupin. Slijngaard and Doth. Just some of the famous musical duos that will be remembered throughout history.

And now, possibly, you can add Gibson and Onkyo to that list after the guitar giant...

With RIM's stock at an all time low, it is no surprise that sharks look to be circling the mobile phone and tablet maker. However the interest, it seems, is coming from those you wouldn't, perhaps, expect. They're some of the biggest fish around.

According...

The company that owns Pentax, the Hoya Corporation, has sold the imaging part of the business to camera maker Ricoh for £77m (¥10b Yen) the two companies confirmed today.

That might seems a a massive drop from the ¥100b the company paid for...

AT&T has announced that it will be buying the US arm of T-Mobile for $39 billion, joining the two networks together - if regulatory bodies give the go ahead.

The move, say T-Mobile and AT&T, will “ensure the deployment of a robust 4G...

Google isn't letting up in its battle to take on Facebook and other social networking wannabes, as it's announced that it's bought Slide.

Google describes Slide as a "social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways...

Orange and T-Mobile have revealed the company name that will represent their UK merger: Everything Everywhere. The merger means that Everything Everywhere now has a total customer base of 30 million, effectively becoming the UK's largest mobile network...

Apple has acquired a small startup called Siri, which is an iPhone app that offers a search experience not unlike that of a personal assistant. Ask it a question in plain English, and you'll get a plain English answer back.

To get that answer,...

HP, fresh from its announcement that it will be buying mobile phone maker Palm, has already hinted that it plans to bring the mobile phone maker's operating system, webOS, to other devices.

"Between smartphones, slates and potentially netbooks...

HP has come out of the left field, some might say, and snapped up flagging mobile phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion.

"HP and Palm today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider...

Twitter has announced that it's acquiring a messaging infrastructure company called Cloudhopper, signifying that it's not ready to give up on its humble SMS beginnings just yet.

The company originally implemented the 140-character limit so...

Microblogging site Twitter has announced that it's going to be buying up 3rd-party iPhone app Tweetie and making it official, turning it into "Twitter for iPhone". The app will also be made free.

The reasoning, Twitter says, is that a pile...

Following last week's rumours of Lenovo's takeover bid for phone-makers Palm Inc, Bloomberg is reporting that a number of people "familiar with the situation" have told the finance news site that the company is seeking buyers.

Palm is said...

Palm has seen its stock rocket (well increased almost 20%) on the back of rumours that Chinese owned laptop maker Lenovo could be making a move to buy the troubled mobile phone maker.

According to Dow Jones Newswires, the latest rumours of...

Orange and T-Mobile have said that they plan to run the two companies for at least 18 months after the merger goes through according to a statement.

"The T-Mobile and Orange UK brands will continue to operate in the UK for at least 18 months...

Kevin Russell, chief exec of 3 UK, has started getting mouthy about the forthcoming Orange/T-Mobile merger, which was recently rubber-stamped by the European Commission. Despite getting access to a pile of new phone masts, he's still unhappy about...