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- Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?
- Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Northrop Grumman sells consulting firm in leveraged buy-out
- Seems to me...Me thinks the "conflict of interest" thing is an excuse to sell an otherwise unprofitable business unit."Leveraged buyout" is a synonym for "have i got a deal for you...let's trade phony paper money, so i can unload this bad boy"The "buyer" will eventually try to market and "flip"...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Northrop Grumman Corp., consulting
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Why do some Tandberg shareholders want more from Cisco? Growth
- Some Tandberg shareholders are reportedly rejecting Cisco Systems' $3 billion cash tender for the video conferencing player and the reason is clear: Tandberg is delivering heady growth in a downturn. Shareholders that own more than 24 percent of Tandberg want to block the Cisco proposed buyout Techmeme....
- Tags: Shareholder, Cisco Systems Inc., Tandberg, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?
- Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?SuccessfulI think that this agreement has the potential to be huge. When you combine all of Microsoft's and Yahoo's page views, you have a lot of people viewing a lot of pages. As an advertiser, having one platform to get...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOLAOL's decline not due to outsourcing search...I understand the comparison, but AOL's decline was not due to outsourcing search to Google. It declined because it was too slow in migrating to broadband and because it kept charging for too long what other properties...
- Tags: INTERNET, Free trade, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Deal
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmed
- Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmedWhich is whyif I were Apple, I'd use all that surplus cash to start taking the company private again. Then you don't have to deal with this nonsense.What does this have to do With Hardware 2.0?There are plenty of other zdnet blogs dealing with headlines that...
- Tags: Blogging, Financial accounting, Investment, TRANSPARENCY, medical leave, blog, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license
- Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license"rental" under a different nameHi Mary Jo, yep we've seen a number of APA pitches recently. The CRM angle looks interesting, especially for a customer who's competing Saleforce.com and Oracle's online CRM. The APA generally works out well if you're...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, APA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player
- Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java "is the most important software Oracle has...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Larry Ellison, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive pay
- Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payGreed is good... right?Figures that talks would break down because some greedy SOB isn't content with millions of dollars alone, but want even more.RE: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payLet them fail. Who cares. None of their products can't...
- Tags: Benefits, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en routeThank You Scott MacNealy!In this case you need to look at what the CEO wanted. He wanted to give away the Brand for money. It was only going to give a one time payday, no matter how big.Most CEOs would go...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., following-The
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route
- Sun Microsystems won't be acquired by IBM after all. Now the explaining---mostly to customers and shareholders---really begins. Sun will tell its customers that the IBM deal was just a slight detour and that the company's plan to be a pivotal hardware, cloud computing and software provider remains...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...
- Tags: Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nehalem, T2
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- Do we care if IBM buys Sun?
- This whole Sun IBM thing sounds like a job for a lot of MBAs, right? Not those of us who just want to keep our computers running and make sure that students and teachers can get online. I mean, IBM is Big Blue! They don't even make PCs or...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target
- Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...
- Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops
- Jerry Yang is no longer CEO of Yahoo. After a short and stormy tenure as CEO Yang is back to being Chief Yahoo. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft and a search deal--if not outright acquisition--may not be too far behind. The official line from Yahoo Techmeme: Yahoo today...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Microsoft buy a 'good idea' for Yahoo, not Microsoft
- Microsoft buy a 'good idea' for Yahoo, not MicrosoftThere is allways that chance that someone elsewould purchase YaHoo's search business, which would still leave Microsoft in third place.It is an interesting situation, and one which needs to be solely based on what would be the best long term ROI.MS should...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yang
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'
- Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'Ballmer was very lucky indeed. Now they can purchase Yahoo at a much cheaper price. Yes I'm still for the purchase.I said so at the timeWalking away from Yahoo was a good...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, dodged bullet, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
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