It’s hardly been a secret that Windows 7 was on track to become Microsoft’s fastest-selling operating system, but the company has just now finally made that designation official, and also revealed that the OS has crossed the magical 100 million licenses sold mark in the process. In other words, that translates to Windows 7 being installed on one in ten of the world’s PCs just six months after it launched, which is pretty...

SINGAPORE: After more than six months of nail—biting suspense, sources have confirmed that football fans will be able to watch all 64 matches of the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa ’live’ on television in Singapore. Details of the closely—guarded deal were, on Wednesday night, still being ironed out by the two telco giants — StarHub and SingTel. One scenario is for the matches to be split between StarHub’s cable service...

The final buyer of Palm is announced. It’s not HTC, Lenovo nor Dell. It’s HP. HP has not released any breaking mobile devices for a long time. HP said the mobile market is highly profitable and the acquisition would help to accelerate the growth. They think the unique webOS is great and innovative. Jon Rubinstein, the current Palm CEO, will remain with the company after the acquisition. HP has bought Palm at a price of $5.70 per share...

It’s done. AOL has officially sold instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investor DST for $187.5 million. In a release, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said “As AOL continues its turnaround effort, we’re fortunate to find a great home for ICQ with DST.” We originally reported that DST was sniffing around ICQ back in December. The acquisition makes sense for DST considering that the instant messaging service has a significant Russian user...

Google made a small acquisition today of an Israeli startup called LabPixies, which is probably best known for its Flood-It! game on the iPhone (it’s the new Tetris). But LabPixies also creates tons of games in the form of iGoogle gadgets, Facebook apps, Hi5 games, MySpace games, and Android apps. Google did not disclose the price of teh acquisition, but the number going around Israeli venture capital circles is $15 million to $25...