No, despite its previous statement that it has “moved on” after being rebuffed by Yahoo!, in reaction to billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn’s request of taking over the Yahoo! board through hostile bidding, Microsoft remains as interested...
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Most of us thought that the Yahoo-Microsoft saga is over while many were anticipating some covert tactics of hostile takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft. Proving both the groups wrong, the Yahoo-Microsoft saga has been revived from an unexpected quarter....
No amount of cajoling or coaxing made Yahoo accede to Microsoft’s demand for acquisition. Heartbroken, Microsoft has finally given up its plan to acquire Yahoo. It will instead tread a solitary path to achieve its goal of increasing its share in...
Microsoft seems to have lost its patience with Yahoo. It is contemplating a hostile bid for the company, if Yahoo! does not begin talks with Microsoft soon. The outlook of Microsoft had been clarified by its chief financial officer Chris Liddell after...
It seems that the tale of the tub has finally ended with Yahoo rejecting Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion at the end of the humongous affair that carried on for the past couple of weeks. The unsolicited bid was finally turned down by Yahoo and...
In the Troy of the internet networking industry, Yahoo seems to be the very sought after Helen, pursued by two titans, Microsoft and Google, one trying to convince her to marry and the other trying to deter that. The proposed alliance between Yahoo...
Not being satisfied of its monopoly in the system software market, Microsoft wants to establish its hegemony in the online services sector also. Despite spending heavily on building its own search engine and advertising technology and even acquiring...
Wal-Mart - does the name sound familiar? Well, this is one of the biggest retail chain in the U.S. But, with the growth of other brand names like KMart, Macy's, as well as Kroger, Wal-Mart is facing a hard time in the retail business. With the ever...
Microsoft has fired its chief information officer, Stuart L. Scott, for violations of company policies. Microsoft declined to give the exact reason for the dismissal.
'Stuart Scott's employment with Microsoft was terminated after an investigation for...
European regulators declared on Monday that they have secured an agreement with Microsoft that will bring the company into compliance with the European Commission's 2004 ruling on the company's anticompetitive practices.
Pressure had been mounting...
A growing number of industries based in India are realizing the importance of linking up with educational institutions and sponsoring their academic and research activities. In all first world economies, it is not the government that funds universities...
A US federal judge overturned a jury verdict ordering Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent 1.5 billion US dollars for infringing on the French firm's patents related to a digital music technology. The US District Judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego ruled...
In a brazen move, the top antitrust official at the US Justice Department last month had advised state prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by Google against Microsoft, according to a latest report by the New York Times. The...
The latest deal to happen in the already hot online ad business saw Microsoft announce its decision to buy aQuantive on Friday. Microsoft Corp. said that it has agreed to acquire aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion. The all cash deal paying $66.50 per...
Rewind to a few years back. Not many thought much of a novice search engine - Google, those days. However, with Google adding to its brand value, and more importantly, to its visitors, with each passing minute, the industry stalwarts have sat up and...
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