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- What's Microsoft's Plan B?
- What's Microsoft's Plan B?Change the leadershipI think MS needs to forget this Yahoo nonsense and put some of it's A level talent in charge of the division.Right now it has C and D level talent running things.RE: What's Microsoft's Plan B?Microsoft should up the offer, take over Yahoo and be...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Workforce management, Leadership, Strategy, Synergies, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., stock, Plan B
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
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- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- 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
- HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition
- We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems in a move that would reshape the technology services and outsourcing market. In a statement Monday, HP and EDS confirmed the talks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal: HP said: HP today...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, Data Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- T-Mobile USA officially announces 3G rollout
- There were rumors of the T-Mobile 3G rollout last week in New York and this morning T-Mobile USA issued the below press release officially announcing that 3G is beginning. Unlike one of the rumors that made little sense, the 3G rollout is for both voice and data and begins in...
- Tags: Network, T-Mobile, T-Mobile International, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit CityI don't understand it either.I just don't see how merging these two will make them both successfull either. This is like merging Sear's and KMART. I just do not get it. Movie rentals are a dying breed and until a formal way...
- Tags: Investment, Movie Rentals, Blockbuster Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., media convergence
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City
- Updated: Here's a deal where 1 + 1 = 0.5: Blockbuster is offering to acquire Circuit City for "a least $6 a share." Blockbuster went public on Monday statement with an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster says it sent a letter Feb. 17, but Circuit City...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Convergence, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your optionsYes, 20 years ago, software licensing was long term viable. That was then,this is now. For businesses NOW, going forward, software licensing is not long term viable. What they are saying is that what worked in the past,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software editor, compagny
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Oracle expected to navigate choppy economic waters
- Oracle will report its fiscal third quarter earnings after market close today and by most counts the company has bucked any economic downturn and should turn in strong results. Analysts are expecting earnings of 30 cents a share for the February quarter on sales of $5.4 billion,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Analyst, Sales Strategy, Middleware, Mergers & Acquisitions, Application Servers, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?
- McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?NeitherGiven that eBay has now acknowledged that it spent several billion dollars and found that there were no synergies between it and Skype...RE: McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?Male or female is not an issue which concerns me. But as our nations V.P. and President...
- Tags: Tech Empresses, McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- EclipseCon debuts OSGi runtime offerings, common platform frees up developers from middleware drudgery
- Tony Baer has a great rundown of the EclipseCon OSGI-based runtime Equinox news today. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues. Write once, run anywhere?...
- Tags: Developer, Runtime, SOA, Eclipse, OSGi, Tony Baer, Equinox, Eclipse-Equinox Ecology Symmetry, Java Community, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answers
- Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answersKevin Johnson is a moronKevin Johnson is a moron.Exceedingly FunnyLet me understand this. Someone at MSFT is pushing the value of competition?This comes from one of the most error prone, uninnovative companies in the world! This company cannot even figure...
- Tags: Final Answer, YAHMic, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., moron, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answers
- In an e-mail sent to Microsoft employees on February 22, Microsoft Platforms & Services President Kevin Johnson reiterated to Microsoft's employees why Microsoft is continuing to pursue its goal of buying Yahoo. The e-mail was not triggered by any new developments, a Microsoft spokeswoman said. It was...
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stackInteroperability works both ways.If you want to rip out that Linux server, the fact that it works with Microsoft products as Microsoft intends helps assure that you won't (what?) miss a beat by eliminating the foreign element.You have many Microsoft products already and...
- Tags: game, Microsoft Corp., real game, interoperability
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Is the online medical niche worthwhile?
- For the last few years venture capital has been pouring into the online medical field, as companies look to emulate the success of WebMD. Maybe they should have stayed in bed. WebMD is suddenly looking less than formidable. Last week Motley Fool dubbed it...
- Tags: Health Care, WebMD, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Does Microsoft really need Yahoo? Pondering the opportunity costs
- The gloves are clearly off in the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover saga. Microsoft threatens a proxy war. Yahoo beefs up severance costs and creates an estimated $500 million in additional expenses for Microsoft if the software giant acquires the portal. But in a research note today, RBC Capital...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advertiser, Glove, Breza, Corporate Governance, Portals, Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Tags: Merger, Citrix Systems Inc., Workflow Studio, Citrix XenServer 4.1, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bid
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bidGeez, are you even kidding???YHOO has *many* options! Bill Miller & Legg Mason have an obvious stake in seeing to it that there is just one option...so that they can profit! What kind of journalism is this? Try enumerating some of the many other options, instead of...
- Tags: Portals, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Goog, Yahoo! Inc., mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
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