Microsoft has given Yahoo three weeks to come to terms or
suffer a proxy fight for control of its board and a hostile takeover according
to a Wall Street...
0 replies - 296 views - 04/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational
Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms
were not disclosed.
0 replies - 871 views - 03/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo’s not the only company scrambling to avoid getting
sucked up by Microsoft.
0 replies - 684 views - 03/19/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
A reported tête-à-tête between Microsoft
and Yahoo on March 10 at which Microsoft is supposed to have painted its
picture of what a combined company would...
0 replies - 749 views - 03/19/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
One way to avoid integration problems, one
might suppose, is not to integrate, which is apparently how Microsoft intends
to treat Yahoo if and when it...
0 replies - 856 views - 03/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
In its desperate backstroke
away from Microsoft’s clutches – and in case Microsoft starts its threatened
proxy fight for control of the company – Yahoo...
0 replies - 732 views - 03/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo has told the SEC that
Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition offer and trying to find an alternative
“have been, and may continue to be, a significant...
0 replies - 740 views - 03/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft and Yahoo aren’t negotiating a deal behind the
scenes, according to what Bill Gates told the AP this morning, 18 days after
Microsoft made its...
0 replies - 247 views - 02/19/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The media is all atwitter at the news that Yahoo is now
seeking a rabbit hole in Rupert Murdoch’s patch rather than get bought by
Microsoft – at least not...
0 replies - 411 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft has responded to Yahoo's official rejection of its $44.6 billion offer for the company this morning, saying it ain't going away. Its statement...
0 replies - 359 views - 02/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
A few minutes ago Yahoo put out a statement saying that it has rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid to acquire the company. Its statement...
0 replies - 316 views - 02/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo has yet to move off the dime after a board meeting today reportedly by telephone in which it reviewed its options in the face of
Microsoft’s hostile...
0 replies - 254 views - 02/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The Yahoo board is supposed to convene today to thrash out
whether or not to accept Microsoft’s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to
get Microsoft to...
0 replies - 589 views - 02/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yesterday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent out his second company-wide
e-mail since Microsoft made its unsolicited $44.5 billion bid for Yahoo, a
message that made...
0 replies - 297 views - 02/06/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The Wall Street Journal says Google CEO Eric Schmidt called
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Friday to offer Yahoo help to avoid selling out to
Microsoft.
It’s...
0 replies - 334 views - 02/04/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News