Shares of videoconferencing technology maker Polycom ( PLCM ) are up $1.34, or 2%, at $58.75, after the company this morning said it would purchase from Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ) the company’s “visual computing” assets for $89 million, to add to Polycom’s unified communications business. The HP products have not been part of the main segments of HP’s business — the personal systems group, services, enterprise, software, and imaging and printing. Instead, they have been contained within the segment of the business dubbed “ Corporate Investments ,” which also contains the company’s networking equipment products, and its Palm computer assets

Portalarium , the social and mobile game company founded by game pioneer Richard Garriott, has raised a second round of funding. Altogether, the Austin, Texas-based startup has raised $3.6 million to date. The financing includes money from m8 Capital in the United Kingdom and Founders Fund (the investment fund which includes PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel) in San Francisco

The Globe & Mail’s Paul Waldie and Body Erman posted a video this morning asking if Research in Motion’s (RIMM) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis should go. (A video preceded, I would note, by an add for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer!) The question, as framed in the video, is whether the top “nerd,” Lazaridis, must go because he’s not “putting out the product.” Lazaridis shares the CEO role with Jim Balsillie , regarded more as the marketing/financial person.

via guestofaguest.com : We all secretly think that our taste in music is some magic map of our hidden depths, but when we actually have the opportunity to show someone what’s on our iPod, it’s Bon Jovi or a podcast on how to get gum out of your beard. That’s why the honesty displayed by the New Yorkers in this video is both delightful and refreshing.

Sean Maloney, Intel ’s newly appointed president of Intel China, plans to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week where he will unveil a heavy-duty effort to steer Intel into the production of low-power microprocessors. Maloney is expected to say that Intel will accelerate its efforts to make chips that are more appropriate for tablet computers, smartphones, laptops, and low-power desktops. Intel has been doing that for some time

Sean Maloney, Intel ’s newly appointed president of Intel China, plans to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week where he will unveil a heavy-duty effort to steer Intel into the production of low-power microprocessors. Maloney is expected to say that Intel will accelerate its efforts to make chips that are more appropriate for tablet computers, smartphones, laptops, and low-power desktops

Sean Maloney, Intel ’s newly appointed president of Intel China, plans to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week where he will unveil a heavy-duty effort to steer Intel into the production of low-power microprocessors. Maloney is expected to say that Intel will accelerate its efforts to make chips that are more appropriate for tablet computers, smartphones, laptops, and low-power desktops

Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebook. The backers include Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Performance Equity and SK Telecom Ventures, as well as earlier backers.

GigaOm already stands out as one of the most heavily-funded sites in the tech news world — and today it nearly doubled that funding, announcing that it has raised another $6 million. Back when the San Francisco-based company had “only” raised around $8 million, I already found the funding “kind of remarkable” . The new total, $14 million, isn’t a huge amount for a tech startup, but it certainly dwarfs the amount raised by most competing sites.

Following the announcement last night that Barnes & Noble ( BKS ) received a $1 billion acquisition proposal by Liberty Capital ( LCAPA ), analysts today were collecting there thoughts on what impact it might have on Liberty, B&N, and others. Credit Suisse’s Gary Balter reiterated a Neutral rating on B&N, writing that the Liberty offer is “a brilliant and well timed move” by Liberty. Barnes & Noble, if combined with Borders Group ( BGP ), which is in bankruptcy, could yield $400 million to $500 million in annual Ebitda.