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Yahoo weighs options as Microsoft drama continues Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a reported plan to join forces with AOL, as a way to stave off the software giant's advances. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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Partial Microsoft-Yahoo deal won't appease investors The big money interests behind the scenes of the Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. drama -- or in the case of activist investor, Carl Icahn , stridently in front -- are unlikely to be happy with any revived talks between the two companies short of Microsoft's making a fu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft finally stays on message about services The deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo for making a deal or facing a proxy fight came and went this weekend without a word from either party. But even if Microsoft doesn't succeed now in its bid for Yahoo, the company made clear last week, both in private meetings with r 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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Top 10: Microsoft's Azure, Google's deals, IT money woes Microsoft's PDC was the source of the biggest news this week as the copany unveiled its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform. The company also let out some more details about the forthcoming Windows 7 OS and talked up its ambitions with Silverlight. Meanwhile, Googl 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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Ballmer: Yahoo still in Microsoft's sights Microsoft still has its eye on Yahoo, but CEO Steve Ballmer would not say Monday whether the company plans to pursue a proxy fight to remove Yahoo's board.Ballmer confirmed "a range of dialog" and "alternative 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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Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Why Airline Mergers Don't Fly Tech Observer: Amazon Selling Music on GTA IV Abandoned Homes: The Myth of the Walk Aways Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft has been radio s Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Why Airline Mergers Don't Fly Tech Observer: Amazon Selling Music on GTA IV Abandoned Homes: The Myth of the Walk Aways Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft has been radio s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Why Airline Mergers Don't Fly Tech Observer: Amazon Selling Music on GTA IV Abandoned Homes: The Myth of the Walk Aways Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft has been radio s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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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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Microsoft adds Facebook-like qualities to Windows Live xMicrosoft aims to turn its Windows Live portal into something more like a social-networking site with features it will add to the next major update of its online services and applications.Windows Live users wil Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft Wants the Milk Without Buying the Cow News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Business Spin: We Agree With Microsoft, Carl Are We at the End of Smashmouth Journalism? Ready for Gas at $4 a Gallon? It's Here Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft's grand Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Microsoft Wants the Milk Without Buying the Cow News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Business Spin: We Agree With Microsoft, Carl Are We at the End of Smashmouth Journalism? Ready for Gas at $4 a Gallon? It's Here Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft's grand Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Microsoft Wants the Milk Without Buying the Cow News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Business Spin: We Agree With Microsoft, Carl Are We at the End of Smashmouth Journalism? Ready for Gas at $4 a Gallon? It's Here Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft's grand Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Yahoo to Microsoft: Cheapskate Yahoo has dusted off a three-month-old financial plan to reinforce its contention that the company is worth much more than Microsoft has offered to pay for it.The plan, presented to Yahoo's board of directors in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft says it would deal with new Yahoo board In a statement Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company.Billionaire investor Carl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |