Disney to Buy Lucasfilm for $4.05 Billion It seems like Darth Vader and Micky Mouse will soon become colleagues, after Disney’s $4.05 billion purchase of Lucasfilm deal is finalized. Disney will acquire Lucasfilm from its founder George Lucas for $4.05 billion, the company announced on Tuesday, Oct. 30. Disney will pay about half of the deal in cash and issue about 40 million shares. Disney also announced plans to make a new Star Wars...

Scott Forstall and John Browett Are Leaving Apple In a major shake-up apparently since the loss of Steve Jobs, Apple has announced in a press release that Vice President of iOS Software Scott Forstall is set to leave the company next year. He will continue working as Advisor to Apple CEO Tim Cook at the time. Moreover, John Browett, head of retail, is also out. Tim Cook will take over retail as an interim until a replacement is found. Bob...

Apple Q4 2012 Results: $36 Billion Revenue, 26.9 Million iPhones, 14 Million iPads, 4.9 Million Macs Sold Apple has just posted earnings for Q4 2012 financial results for the quarter that ended on September 29, 2012. Apple managed to get a revenue of $36 billion, with 14 million iPads, 26.9 million iPhones, 5.3 million iPods and 4.9 million Macs sold. Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the conference: “We’re very proud to...

Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Early Reviews Round-up And the early reviews for Microsoft’s new Surface tablet have begun stacked up, giving us a glimpse of whats Microsoft has its up sleeves in the tablet business. Judging by the hands-on, it seems the Surface is not going well for Microsoft primarily with the obvious lack of apps, buggy software and other awkwardness: TIME: My 48-year-old eyeballs have no trouble telling the...

Apple’s iPad mini Media Event Set For Oct. 23 As expected, Apple has just officially announced a media event for the highly-anticipated iPad mini on October 23 in San Jose’s California Theater. Apple likely targeting the new 7.85-inch iPad for the holidays season. Apple is said to be preparing 24 iPad mini SKUs, 4 different models in each capacity and color, probably white and black. Apple is also expected to unveil a 13-inch...

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima celebrating the 25th anniversary of the game series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear series, game creator and designer Hideo Kojima attended PAX today to showed off 15 minutes of the first gameplay footage from his upcoming game. Though running on a PC, Kojima stated that the footage was comparable to what would be seen on the PS3 version of the game. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Big...