Carl Icahn signs a confidentiality agreement to review Dell’s books

American business magnate Carl Icahn has signed a confidentiality agreement to review Dell's books and further evaluate the bid for a $24 billion leveraged buyout to take the company private.

7 Black Friday deals for entrepreneurs and the enterprise

Who says Black Friday has to be about consumer goods? These tech companies are offering discounts on products and services for building businesses, rather than credit card bills.

Russian search engine Yandex may sell its share of Face.com to Facebook

Facebook’s rumored interest in purchasing facial recognition startup Face.com may become a reality thanks to some help from an unlikely source.

Russian-based search engine Yandex is said to be mulling the sale of its share in Face.com to the social …

JPMorgan Chase may buy stake in Conduit for $100M

Yozma Venture Capital is looking to sell its remaining shares in Israeli-based Conduit, and it may have found a buyer. JPMorgan Chase is apparently in talks with the firm to buy its remaining seven percent stake in Conduit for $100 …

Silver Lake buys stake in Conduit, giving Israeli investors 200x return

Yozma Venture Capital is in talks to sell its share of Conduit, an Israel-based company that creates user engagement tools, for more than $200 million, Globes reported Thursday.

A source tells VentureBeat the buyer is Silver Lake, a U.S. private …

Tough negotiator: HP wanted $1.2B for webOS and Palm’s assets (exclusive)

$1.2 billion. That’s how much HP paid for Palm last year, and it’s also how much the company was trying to sell its Palm assets for over the latter half of 2011, VentureBeat has learned.

As baffling as it may …

$99 HP Touchpad sale on eBay starting 12/11, but they’re refurbished

Didn’t get your $99 HP Touchpad WebOS tablet the first time around? The company is holding an eBay sale for refurbished Touchpads starting on December 11th.

The company sent out a memo to employees detailing the sale, which prices used …

Gawker Media is ditching its porn site, Fleshbot. Any takers?

Gawker Media is getting ready to sell Fleshbot (NSFW), its blog devoted to adult entertainment and human sexuality.

The network contains a roster of successful sites, from Lifehacker and Gizmodo to Jezebel and Jalopnik, each relatively well respected in its …

HP drops TouchPad price to $99 in Canada. Is the U.S. far behind?

After Hewlett-Packard announced it was killing its webOS devices, many of us were left wondering what the company planned to do about the numerous TouchPad tablets still sitting on retail shelves.

An answer might be right around the corner if …

Myspace laying off 150 employees ahead of company’s sale?

The once great social networking site Myspace is expected to make big cuts to its employee ranks Wednesday, reports Gawker.

TechCrunch later confirmed with sources inside Myspace that the company is laying off at least 150 (37.5 percent) of its …