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- eBay Finally Spins Off Skype
- Tech Confidential submits: EBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced Friday that it has completed its spinoff of the Internet telephony unit to a consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion, with the investor group getting...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Google: Considering M&A After All?
- Tech Confidential submits: Eric Schmidt has been making the rounds, it appears. The Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) chief recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with TechCrunch, and now he's telling Japanese paper The Nikkei that the Internet search leader has "begun seriously looking at acquisitions again," particularly among...
- External links 2009-09-03
- Waiting Game for Sun Micro
- Tech Confidential submits: The worker bees at Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) are biting their nails. As one Sun employee told me Tuesday, the EU's deadline to approve Oracle Corp.'s (NASDAQ:ORCL) $7.4 billion bid for the server maker is Thursday. Assuming the deal gets approval, "all hell breaks loose"...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Salesforce Quietly Backing Startups
- Tech Confidential submits: Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has quietly invested in several startups and wants to do more. Practice Fusion, a San Francisco startup that develops free Web-based programs to help physicians manage their practices, announced Wednesday that it had secured a minority investment of less than $10 million...
- External links 2009-08-07
- News Corp. Seeking Salvation in Paid Content
- Tech Confidential submits: Dire situations sometimes call for bold measures. Just ask News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS) chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. by Dealscape
- External links 2009-08-06
- Yahoo / Microsoft: Let the Filing Begin - Some Early Details
- Tech Confidential submits: Yahoo Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) Form 8-K filing with the SEC provides some details of the search and advertising deal with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), including payments, reasons for termination and employment issues. by Dealscape
- External links 2009-08-05
- Yahoo's Waiting Game
- Tech Confidential submits: Only time will tell whether Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) made the right decision in inking its paid search deal with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). Investors certainly didn't like it, despite Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay's belief in the long-term possibility of the deal adding up to $4...
- External links 2009-08-03
- eBay: Still Clouds Over Skype IPO
- Tech Confidential submits: Despite a few ominous signals, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) insists that it's moving full-steam ahead with its spinoff of Internet phone service Skype.The online auctioneer felt compelled to issue a statement saying that its plans to spin off the unit, which it acquired in 2005 for...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Jason Calcanis on Yahoo-Microsoft Deal: Epic Mistake
- Tech Confidential submits: "Yahoo committed seppuku today," blogs serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis about Yahoo Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) 10-year deal with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), referring to the Japanese form of ritual suicide by disembowelment. by Dealscape
- External links 2009-07-29
- Apple Earnings Preview
- Tech Confidential submits: "None of the three dozen analysts who follow the stock think it will have any trouble beating its guidance numbers," writes Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt about Apple Inc. (NASADQ:APPL), which reports its fiscal third-quarter results after market close Tuesday. "The question is by how much."Elmer-DeWitt says:...
- External links 2009-07-21
- AOL's Armstrong Talks Tech
- Tech Confidential submits: It's been about 100 days since Tim Armstrong, the new CEO of AOL LLC, began his review of the soon-to-be independent unit of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), and PaidContent.org on Sunday published a lengthy interview with the exec about what he's learned. by Dealscape
- External links 2009-07-20
- Google Q2: What to Expect
- Tech Confidential submits: Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will report its second-quarter earnings after market close Thursday afternoon, and whatever the results, the Street will be poring over the numbers -- particularly in ad revenue -- for hints of an economic rebound. Analysts on average expect Google to report earnings...
- External links 2009-07-16
- Bill Gates Speaks: On Physics, Terrapower, and Google Chrome
- Tech Confidential submits: In a wide-ranging interview with Cnet's Ina Fried, Bill Gates talks about some of the projects he's been working on since retiring from day-to-day operations at Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) a year ago, including a startup called TerraPower, which is developing a new design for nuclear...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Google Aims Directly at Microsoft with Chrome OS
- Tech Confidential submits: To be a fly on the wall at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley, Idaho, confab as always would be an interesting experience. However, this year's event, while potentially overshadowed by the G8 Summit, promises to be as exciting as ever, especially in light of the...
- External links 2009-07-08
- What Software Theft Could Cost Goldman
- Tech Confidential submits: By now you've probably heard about former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) employee and ballroom dancer Sergey Aleynikov being arrested for allegedly stealing the computer codes for the firm's high-speed trading platform, but what could the theft actually cost the bank? Well, if prosecutors...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Broadcom: If You Can't Buy 'em, Sue 'em
- Tech Confidential submits: Two months after chipmaker Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ:BRCM) gave up its hostile, $912 million takeover pursuit of Emulex Corp. (NYSE:ELX), the company has slapped its unwilling target with a patent infringment suit.In a press release issued Monday after market close, Broadcom accused Emulex of infringing 10...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Dolans to Sell Cablevision?
- Tech Confidential submits: The Dolan family has tried on three occasions to take Cabelvision Systems Corp. (NYSE:CVC) private but failed. So would the Dolan family ever let go of their much beloved Cablevision? According to a feature in Barron's, it is a very real possibility. The article suggests...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Google Rumored to Be Considering Buying Brightcove
- Tech Confidential submits: Fresh on the heels of buying ReCaptcha, Google Inc. GOOG is reportedly in the midst of snatching up Brightcove for between $500 million and $700 million. The report seems to originate with a message sent on Twitter by Mark Glaser, the executive editor of PBS...
- External links 2009-09-16
- AOL to Show 2,500 Employees the Door
- Tech Confidential submits: With its Dec. 9 spinoff from Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) looming, AOL LLC wants to be slim and trim once it goes solo.In a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AOL said it has informed its workforce that it wants to cut a...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Future of Search: Google Has a Problem
- Tech Confidential submits: "Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a problem, and it's not a technical problem," said serial entrepreneur Keith Teare on Tuesday while speaking in New York on a panel about the future of search engines at Betaday, an annual event hosted by innovative incubator Betaworks for its...
- External links 2009-11-18
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