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- Google Board Member Targeted by SEC
- Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Bizarre Merger of the Day: United Online Buys FTD Group
- United Online has one helluva Internet portfolio: Classmates.com, MyPoints, NetZero, Juno and now FTD, a florist. If you’re looking for synergy you won’t find it here. The company announced Wednesday that it will acquire FTD for $800 million Techmeme. The moving parts involved in that sum are...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- IAC: Shareholder Value or Money Pit?
- IAC reported its first quarter earnings on Wednesday and it’s the usual mix of mental hurdles, GAAP reconciliations and imagining what it could be. The big question: Is IAC really worth your time? IAC, an Internet conglomerate that’s Barry Diller’s baby, is planning to break itself up into five chunksâ€"a...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Yahoo, Microsoft Still Keeping the Media Guessing
- Have you ever felt used? Betrayed? Used as a pawn in a silly negotiation game? If you're in the media your answer in the last few days is a decided yes. The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft are actually talking merger now. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Conflicting Interests Under the Spotlight in eBay-Craigslist Lawsuit
- EBay has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark and Buckmaster and a rift over eBay's Kijiji unit, which competes with Craigslist, it's worth pondering the motives--and perceptions--here. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- AMD Still Mum on Its 'Asset Smart' Strategy
- The wait for AMD to outline its so-called “asset smart†strategy continues. AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in his annual shareholder meeting address failed to add any more detail about its manufacturing strategy going forward. AMD outlined its new server roadmap on Wednesday. In many respects, Ruiz...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- HP Seals EDS Deal; Services No. 2 Behind IBM; Can Hurd Run EDS Better?
- “We’re running the playbook we know how to run very well,†said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts. “We know how to get significant leverage out of our scale. We spent double-digit thousands of hours on the due diligence and planning. This thing EDS is very attractive. We didn’t...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microhoo: Is It Joint Venture Time?
- Updated with Yahoo response, more on potential search deal: Microsoft on Sunday issued a statement that opens the door to a partnership with Yahoo, but not an acquisition. Now Microsoft is talking some sense Techmeme. The 20-second version of this Microhoo drama so far....
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Financial Sharks Are Circling Yahoo
- The Microhoo saga has attracted a who’s who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of “shareholder value.†The latest investing star to enter the Microhoo sweepstakes is T. Boone Pickens, a legendary oil investor, has bought 10...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Looking For Successors To Google and Microsoft
- Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley’s talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Verizon Buys Alltel to Bolster User Base
- Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it will buy Alltel to beef up its network for about $28.1 billion. The deal surfaced on Wednesday via various press reports and Verizon Wireless just made it official statement. What’s this deal about? Subscriber envy. Verizon Wireless wasn’t...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Icahn Is Still Steamed at Yahoo
- Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman’s terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here’s the letter. You can...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Should Google Shoot Sergey Brin Into Space?
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Yahoo: Google, Yes; Microsoft, No
- Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it’s no longer interested in Yahoo. Add it up and billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s grand plan to cash in on Yahoo just went kaput. First, the news. News.com’s Stephen Shankland...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Yahoo's Yang Living On Borrowed Time
- Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another dayâ€"or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo's Pinata
- So what’s that water cooler conversation going to sound like at the Yahoo executive suite today? Probably something like this: Sue Decker: So Jerry how was your weekend? Jerry Yang: Not too bad. I didn’t have to talk to Steve Ballmer so how bad...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Will Microsoft Cast Its Eye Upon eBay?
- Microsoft has $44 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket, but there’s one little hitch: There are few companies that the software giant could buy to get scale quickly. Enter eBay. Enter speculation. Enter eBay as the acquisition target. Sure, eBay has opened up its...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- HP Revamping Printing Unit
- HP will reportedly revamp its printing unit in an attempt to jump start growth. According to the Wall Street Journal, HP is looking to cut five printing divisions to three. The Idaho Statesman first reported the story. HP’s plan is to make the printing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Google Needs YouTube For Display Ads
- Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has high hopes for Google’s prospects in display advertisingâ€"so much so that every 1 percent gain in the company’s display ad market share will result in $200 million in additional revenue in 2009. All Google has to do now is figure out how to monetize YouTube....
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- VMware Tosses Its CEO As Microsoft Closes In
- VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware’s board....
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
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