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Microsoft ‘Done’ With Yahoo; Expands Ad Deal With Facebook Steve Ballmer said the company was “done,” for now, with pursuing Yahoo. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced that it will provide Web search and search advertising on Facebook pages. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we hav Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Yahoo ends talks with Microsoft, nears Google deal Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft about a deal narrower in scope than a full acquisition, Yahoo revealed on Thursday. Instead, the company is nearing an agreement with Google, The Wall Street Journal repo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Privacy groups vow to fight Microsoft-Yahoo deal Privacy groups are promising a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies if Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, and the deal could face significant hurdles in Europe as well.Microsoft ann Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft-Yahoo deal: What about developers? While observers believe that Microsoft is willing to pay Yahoo $44 billion primarily for its users and advertising base, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, wants to grow its developer community as well. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yahoo bid could backfire lest Microsoft changes ways Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo is a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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What's behind Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft bid? Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's acquisition bid is likely a negotiating strategy to elicit a higher offer and shouldn't be seen as an attempt to resist a deal at all costs, according to analysts.Neither Micros Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft grows hostile, Yahoo says nyah nyah We've been waiting all week for the other shoe on Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt to drop on Yahoo, which isn't waiting for that to happen and has forged an advertising agreement with Google as a way to hedge against the ongoing acquisition dispute. In other ne Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft mania, AT&T goes 3G, IT awards It felt like all Microsoft, all the time this week. CEO Steve Ballmer was attacked by an egg-throwing Hungarian, the company said it will support ODF and PDF in Office next year, and it started the week by pitching another deal to Yahoo that involves buying assets and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Now what? Microsoft's three-month courtship of Yahoo has ended, but it changed both companies forever and neither can expect to return to the way they were.Microsoft and Yahoo will need to deliver on promises, address que Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo try to work it out Microsoft and Yahoo have turned a corner and are finally negotiating in earnest about their possible merger, although a deal is far from imminent, according to media reports.In anonymously sourced stories publis Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Scoble: It's Facebook and Microsoft vs. the open public Web As if the news of rekindled deal making between Microsoft and Yahoo wasn't enough, rumors fly that Microsoft will move on to buy Facebook after buying Yahoo's search business.[ Read more about Microsoft's pursu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's options, post-Yahoo Poor Steve Ballmer. Having yanked his offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft Corp.'s CEO is left to run a $57 billion company that is on track for its annual orgy of profits and continues to dominate several software spheres. And he still gets to decide how -- or even if -- th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Zimbra customers spooked by Microsoft's Yahoo bid Zimbra customers are deeply concerned about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo because they feel that the deal would mean the end of the Zimbra collaboration and communication suite.In October, Yahoo acquired Zimbra, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft bid caps turbulent week Microsoft's offer Friday to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and shares put a turbulent end to a heavy earnings week in which forecasts from Internet leaders worried IT investors.Internet leaders Google, Yah Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ozzie: Microsoft needs Yahoo for Web, advertising plan Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie attempted to clarify Microsoft's Web-based advertising and services strategy and lay a case for why buying Yahoo is integral to that plan on Wednesday.In his keynote Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for the Apache Web server. Zemlin ha Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft, HP do search deal for PCs Ramping up its efforts to build search market share, Microsoft signed a deal to embed a Live Search toolbar on all Hewlett-Packard consumer PCs in North America starting next year.In addition, Live Search will b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AOL a less challenging buy than Yahoo for Microsoft While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft executive shakeup prepares for Yahoo acquisition Microsoft confirmed a number of high-level executive changes, moves that could be designed to better position the company to digest an acquisition of Yahoo, an analyst said.In addition to a number of executive Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |