Global vendor strategies - 13/10/05

Ericsson is poised to take control of Marconi. Huawei had also expressed interest but has apparently lost out to Ericsson. Ericsson seems ready to spend €1.9bn.

Intel has announced plans to launch a trial phase of broadband Internet over power lines in India.

Oracle once again on the buyer side. It will swallow InnoBase, a MySQL-compliant database editor.

PayPal (a eBay unit) will pay $370m to buy payment service from VeriSign.

Microsoft and RealNetworks are nearing a settlement in a deal valued at about $750m.

Skype and Linksys (Cisco) have announced a joint marketing deal to promote a new cordless handset, the CIT1000.