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...
In the current scenario, pertaining to the private or for that matter the governmental organizations, downsizing, has become a prominent feature. Today, organizations prefer to reduce the size of the manpower employed in order to come at par with the...
Yahoo can not sit silent when its rivals, Google and Microsoft are investing heavily in the online advertising business. The search giant has geared up for yet another acquisition barely a few months after its purchase of Right Media. This time, it is...
Yahoo Inc.'s woes don't seem to end with the changing position, as its second-quarter profit slipped slightly while revenue growth remained lackluster.
Company's quarterly earning decreased by 2 percent as it reported $160.6 million, or 11 cents...
Yahoo Inc., Chairman Terry Semel has stepped down from his post unexpectedly on Monday. He has to loose his job because of the growing dominance of rival Google and disappointing trading results of Yahoo in the market. Now Jerry Yang, an electrical...
WPP, the world's second-largest advertising group, has decided to acquire 24/7 Real Media, the US digital marketing company, for $649 million, the company said in its announcement. The takeover has marked the continuing the trend of consolidation...
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...
A human-rights group has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo Inc. for purportedly making available information to the Chinese government that led to the persecution, torture and detention of dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA filed...
Yahoo's shares fell sharply by 8 per cent yesterday on the back of disappointing quarterly results declared by the Internet giant. Yahoo reported a decline of 11 per cent in its profits for the first quarter. The results disappointed many investors...
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