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Microsoft pursues search improvements, sans Yahoo While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo. 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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Top 10: iPhone 3G, DNS flaw, Microsoft's cloud Apple stole the IT news show yet again this week with the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. But there was other news as well, including warnings that a DNS vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by VMware's board of cofounder and CEO Diane Greene Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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Despite Yahoo drama, Microsoft forges ahead with search Microsoft is pushing ahead with plans to expand its enterprise and Internet search offerings even as its quest to purchase Yahoo remains uncertain and could get uglier.On Wednesday, Fast Search and Transfer ( 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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Microsoft feeds cash to Online Services Business With the possibility of a Yahoo acquisition still uncertain, Microsoft is pouring hundreds of millions of additional investment dollars into its Online Services Business (OSB) in an aggressive effort to compete with Google in online advertising. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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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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Ozzie hints at Microsoft's search future, downplays Yahoo Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie on Wednesday suggested that Microsoft has its own clear ideas on the next direction it will take in Internet search, downplaying any deal the company might still make with Yahoo in favor of highlighting Microsoft's own ambi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's offer to Yahoo's board In a letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered to acquire the company for a per-share price of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock -- a 62 percent premium above the Jan. 31, closing price of Yahoo -- and cited the broad rang 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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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 |
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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 could stumble in quest for ad speed Microsoft executives said very little on Friday about the undeniable challenges of integrating the company's Internet division with Yahoo, largely avoiding the proverbial elephant in the room that could delay or, in some cases, eliminate benefits of the deal. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft unwraps search engine reward program Microsoft launched a comparative shopping feature in its Live Search engine on Wednesday. The service offers consumers a rebate on purchases made through the site, a scheme that could lure shoppers from Google and Yahoo. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft says it offered $9 billion to Yahoo In a letter to employees on Friday, a Microsoft executive said the company had offered to buy Yahoo's search assets for $1 billion and invest $8 billion in the remaining company, before talks between the two ended. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yahoo: Microsoft deal would put Yahoo out of search business Yahoo's management on Monday filed a presentation to shareholders aiming to cast doubt on Microsoft's sincerity in negotiating to buy the company, while defending its own actions.Yahoo's board of directors face Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yang to Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a message for his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo, and Ballmer only has to say the word and Yang will be sitting at the negotiating table."To this day I w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft GM to Yahoo: Good-bye to you While Yahoo would have given Microsoft's Internet business an immediate boost, Microsoft has closed that chapter and is focused on moving forward, a Microsoft official said Tuesday."We have a lot of opportunity Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |