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- Possible next steps for Microhoo
- CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Microsoft beat reporter Ina Fried sit down to discuss where Microsoft's bid for Yahoo stands. Ina breaks down the options and likens the strategy on both sides to a slow-moving game of chicken. Find out why she's not straying far from her desk anytime this...
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, michael kanellos, microsoft, yahoo, bid, merger
- Videos 2008-04-30
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- Why MSFT must make an acquisition in online media
- Businessweek's cover story is: "Inside Microsoft's War Against Google - With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google's online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy." This behind the scenes look isn't very deep. It mostly centers on MSFT's "top U.S. salesman for...
- Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Online Media, Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, MSFT, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo
- In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout....
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- A rundown of 'L'affair Microhoo'
- CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber takes a few minutes to highlight the key points in all the corporate maneuvering of Microsoft's would-be acquisition of Yahoo and gives his take on where the failed bid leaves both companies.
- Tags: News, dan farber, microsoft, google, yahoo, mergers, internet, stock market, Editor-in-chief, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
- Videos 2008-05-08
- Microsoft trickling out its Spring Live Search update
- Last we heard from the Live Search team, Microsoft's plan of record was to deliver an annual Fall update and an annual Spring update. The Spring update has started arriving slowly in pieces. On May 3, Microsoft refreshed its Live QnA search functionality. On May 7, Microsoft...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Vonage narrows losses; Inks deal with Covad
- Vonage is still losing money, but the bottom line is moving in the right direction. The company also signed a deal with Covad to offer DSL service. The VOIP provider on Thursday reported a first quarter net loss of $9 million, or 6 cents a share, compared...
- Tags: Covad Communications Group Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Company, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Marketing Research, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft still shopping; Approached Facebook
- Microsoft, just a few days removed from walking away from its Yahoo bid, is reportedly sniffing around Facebook. According to Kara Swisher, Microsoft's bankers contacted Facebook to see if Mark Zuckerberg and company would be interested in selling the company. The Wall Street Journal also reported the...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Web Site Development, Construction, Marketing, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"Two essays jostling.Microsoft has made an investment in MSN, and that investment has not been paying well. Search is a related source of income, and that component of the business could also be improved on the balance sheet.The purchase of Yahoo would add the #2...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., content company, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?
- Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?MSFT because they're a big famous successful companyMeanwhile, back in the real world :1) Google because of the ad revenue growth which will accelerate as the economy picks up again following the foreign forays2) Yahoo, because they have a lot of stuff...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Morse Code Rickroll 0-day... no, seriously, I mean it
- Morse Code Rickroll 0-day... no, seriously, I mean itYou wouldn't be "re-missed"You'd be remiss. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/remissSigned,Grammar Moses ;-)Congrats!As Solomon wrote: He who findeth a wife findeth a good thing.Cheers!Congratulations Nate!ntRE: Morse Code Rickroll 0-day... no, seriously, I mean it[humor]Sooo, how drunk was she when you proposed? :) [/humor]]:)RE: Congrats!Thanks...
- Tags: Blogging, Morse Code Rickroll 0-day, Morse Code, Morse Plc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' address
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' addressLet the pigs have their lunchas they will do anyway (it's only a correction from a rise due to short term greed, so it's kind of their own vomit that they're eating), then everybody who isn't convinced that Steve Ballmer...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, knowledge economy, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, stock, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Would the addition of Sprint screw up T-Mobile?
- Deutsche Telekom is reportedly mulling a bid for Sprint Nextel and plans to combine it with its T-Mobile unit. The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, is interesting on a few fronts. For starters, a combined Sprint-T-Mobile would be the largest wireless carrier in the U.S....
- Tags: T-Mobile, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?
- Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?Almost certainly goodMicrosoft really seemed to be looking at a Yahoo takeover as a cure-all -- and when a company does that, it usually means that the company is going to drag down the outside firm. It either has no idea what...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, PRODUCTIVITY, YUI, Microhoo, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?
- Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it was ending its bid to buy Yahoo!. The proposed deal, and its ultimate demise, was the subject of speculation for weeks. Now that it's over, what do you think about the outcome? Are you happy with the decision for the two companies not...
- Tags: Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises
- Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...
- Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google wins
- Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google winsEven more embarassing than thatis that it should be "withdraws".A withdrawal is what a drug user experiences when he has no more of his addictive drug. Or is that what you meant ;-)Withrawls???Somebody please fix the headline for this article! It's embarrassing!THE INTERNET AND...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., withdrawal
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- About that Microsoft-Yahoo deal (2)
- About that Microsoft-Yahoo deal (2)Consumers are the winnersalong with free markets, competition and innovation.People should stop looking at it from the perspective of the greedy pigs that push their snouts into as many troughs as they can find, otherwise tomorrow's knowledge economy is going to be a real struggle whilst...
- Tags: Financial accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Microsoft withdrawals bid for Yahoo, Google wins
- In a press release from Microsoft yesterday, Steve Ballmer said that it officially withdrawals it's bid for the acquisition of Yahoo, and cites the deal with Google as the main contributing factor for his decision. "In our view, such an arrangement with [Google] would make an acquisition of Yahoo!...
- Tags: Google Inc., Withdrawal, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
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