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- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
- That didn't take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo's board, Yahoo answered with its own letter. Signed by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman of Yahoo Board Roy Bostock, the Yahoo letter reiterated that Yahoo feels Microsoft's $44 billion...
- Tags: Antitrust, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
- Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's weekend "negotiate or we're launching a proxy war or pulling our offer" love letter. The gist: Increase your offer or get lost. Give credit to Yahoo for sheer moxie (or maybe it's stupidity). But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't be happy...
- Tags: Transaction, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Value, Proposal, Steve, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- EZ Contract Proposal (exe)
- EZ Contract Proposal allows the end user to quickly create itemized contract proposals for their clients which ultimately becomes the printed contract document. This particular software was originally developed for florists to quickly and simply spell out in contract form all the details of service and materials to be provided...
- Tags: Proposal, Wade Instruments, EZ Contract Proposal, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
- ProposalSmartz (EXE)
- ProposalSmartz Desktop appears as an add-on to the Word tool bar. The software is easy to use with a tabbed interface. Rather than starting from scratch and taking hours to flesh out your proposal you can now access our bank of ready content and edit as per your need. Select...
- Tags: Proposal, NetSmartz, ProposalSmartz Desktop, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-03-07
- Walker's four point health reform plan
- David Walker, the nation's Comptroller General right offered a four-point plan for our health care system in recent Senate testimony. Walker is one of the few government officials you might consider bias-free, because the Comptroller General serves a single 15-year term. In other words,...
- Tags: Health Care, Proposal, Walker, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to employees: We're looking at other options; Don't get distracted
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told employees in an email that the company has made "absolutely no decisions" about Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid. He added that the board is also looking at other strategic alternatives. He also urged employees to forge ahead and not let "any of...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Corporate Governance, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo; May change the search game; Bid could rise
- Microsoft said Friday that it is making an unsolicited offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, to buy Yahoo in a move that would give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google. In a statement, Microsoft would allow Yahoo shareholders...
- Tags: Game, Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!
- Microsoft just announced a $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the half-cash, half-stock offer in a brutal carrot-and-stick open letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors. The Redmond giant appears to laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover if it comes to that. Ballmer...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Common Stock, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Brief: 4
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Watch these FTC privacy principles and expect a skirmish
- Along with its approval of Google's DoubleClick acquisition Thursday the Federal Trade Commission outlined some core privacy principles that may have a bigger impact than the merger over time. While Google's acquisition of DoubleClick is getting all of the attention (Techmeme, blog post and news story) these...
- Tags: Advertisement, Privacy, FTC, Proposal, News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Pipes, is that the answer to save life as we know it?
- There's a proposal being put forth to stop the earth from over-heating. It comes from James Lovelock and Chris Rapley, two British scientists. It's just appeared as a letter to Nature. And I'm not the first blogger to take note. The proposal...
- Tags: Earth, Proposal, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Proposal Pack Wizard (exe)
- Proposal Pack Wizard is a software add-in for Microsoft Word for Windows which manages your business proposals. It provides mail merge, management of multiple proposals, assembly of many types of proposals (general business, grants, business plan funding, quotes, book publishing, technical, non-technical, sales, services, internal company projects, and resumes). Proposal...
- Tags: Proposal, Proposal Pack Wizard, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-02-21
- Dealing With Short TCP Flows: A Survey of Mice in Elephant Shoes
- Short web transfers that dominate the Internet suffer from TCP's inadequate provisioning for short flows. This paper surveys ten proposals that attempt to solve one or more of the problems of short flows, and suggests general criteria to evaluate them. The proposals range from T/TCP in 1992 to RIO-PS in...
- Tags: Mouse, TCP, Survey, Proposal, Tcp/Ip, Marketing Research, Networking, Marketing
- White papers 2007-01-01
- A Safe Aspect-Oriented Programming Support for Component-Oriented Programming
- This paper shows that Aspect-Oriented Programming AOP can be safely supported by Component-Oriented Programming COP by providing a way to control the openness of a component with regards to AOP techniques. The proposal reconciles the intrusive nature of AOP with the "Black box property" of components in COP. The authors...
- Tags: Aspect-oriented Programming, Aspect-oriented, Proposal
- White papers 2006-06-19
- Assessing the Budget Proposal Put Forward by the Senate Budget Committee
- This paper examines the budget proposal adopted by the Senate Budget Committee on March 10, 2005. While the proposal calls for substantial reductions in many domestic programs, it would increase rather than reduce the deficit over time, largely due to its emphasis on further tax cuts. Funding for "domestic discretionary"...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Proposal, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-03-14
- Rainmaker Proposal (exe)
- Rainmaker is a proposal builder based on a template engine and smart tags for customization. Each proposal is built from a library of documents, images, and text files in a master list library, that you can add to and categorize. Then each proposal can be built in minutes, whether its...
- Tags: Smart Tags, Proposal, Rainmaker, Sales Strategy, Sales
- Software downloads 2003-12-20
- Efficient Execution of Parallel Java Applications
- This paper proposes mechanisms to improve the performance of parallel Java applications. The proposal is based on the establishment of a dialog between each Java application and the underlying operating system. This dialog implies modifications at the application or compiler, the threading library and kernel levels. The paper includes some...
- Tags: Java Application, Proposal, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2002-07-02
- Microsoft Office System Webcast: Create Winning Business Proposals With Help From Work Essentials (Level 100)
- In this webcast, the presenter shares his four-step plan for managing the business proposal process, from the first client meeting to proposal acceptance. Whether the listener works as a consultant or as a sales and marketing professional, this webcast shows how the person can use proposals to build client relationships,...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Create a Winning Proposal
- Knowing how to create a winning sales proposal is important for surviving in today's business environment. This webcast shows how Microsoft Office Word 2003 can help to write proposals that focus on the customers' needs and the benefits they want. The webcast shows how one can create well-organized proposals that...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Sales Force Management, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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