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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 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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Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win? Now that Microsoft has dropped its bid to take over Yahoo, industry analysts assessed what happened and what to expect from the two companies.Microsoft gave up its effort to acquire Yahoo because the software co 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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Microsoft hints at Yahoo hostile takeover Microsoft said its $44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo is "fair" and hinted that it may pursue a hostile takeover of the Internet company, according to a statement Microsoft made Monday in response to Yahoo's formal rejection of its buyout offer. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft steps up Yahoo drive Microsoft hires a law firm that specialises in proxy battles in a move that suggests it could try to oust the Yahoo board. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > BBC |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Report: News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.The two companies are in talks about a deal in which News C 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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Gates: Microsoft fights back from underdog status on search After vague statements over the last weeks about internal investments that will allow it to compete in search without Yahoo, Microsoft on Wednesday laid out more of its vision for improving on its current "underdog" position in search. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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Ozzie is key to Microsoft's success against Google The departure of Microsoft's founder and iconic leader Bill Gates comes at a pivotal time in the company's history as it struggles to compete with Google, the architect of the new Web economy and perhaps the company's most formidable foe ever. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft can't refuse As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won't be powerful en Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |