After several days of reports and speculation, Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang officially confirmed their US$2.5 billion deal.   Most of the staff of Mojang, the Stockholm-based developer of the popular gaming franchise, will join the Microsoft Studios team, which...

Hewlett-Packard said it has invested $50 million in Hortonworks as part of a broad integration pact aimed at big data analytics customers.   Hortonworks provides an enterprise version of Apache Hadoop for big data analytics applications. Hortonworks competes with the...