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Microsoft and Yahoo: a Postmortem: Julie finds out about Baumer going Microsoft for Yahoo.; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., microsoft, yahoo, merger, deal, google, denied, hostile takeover, bid, adsense, web video, cbs, cbs news, cbs.com, howard lindzon, closing bell, julie alexandria, wallstrip, wallstreet, stocks, stock market, stock exchange, money, finance, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, cash, business, warren, buffet, berkshire hathaway, day trade, trends, cnbc, trading, market, jim cramer, britney; Videos 2008-05-07
Microhoo: Mr. Right, or Mr. Right Now?: Finding "The One" isn't easy. Is Yahoo just playing hard to get? Neither company can stand alone against the Google machine, so a loving partnership may be their only choice.; Tags: berkshire hathaway, blaine, britney, buffet, business, Business Structures, cash, cbs, cbs news, cbs.com, closing bell, cnbc, connery, david, day trade, douglass, finance, google, howard lindzon, invest, investing, jim cramer, julie alexandria, market, michael, microsoft, mike, money, nasdaq, nyse, proposal, punchout, sean, spaceballs, stock exchange, stock market, stocks, trading, trends, tyson, wallstreet, wallstrip, warren, web video, wedding, yahoo; Videos 2008-04-09
Rich Sootkoos: Green Alternatives for Big Business: How can you clean up by riding the green wave? Rich Sootkoos' company, Reproduct, has created a greener alternative to recycled paper and is helping corporations create greener marketing materials, company reports, and greeting cards. Here he talks about building reuse into his products and garnering support from Microsoft execs,...; Tags: Intel, Microsoft, John Kerry, Rich Sootkoos, Reproduct, Green business, Corporation, Marketing, Marketing Research, reuse, recycle; Videos 2007-10-21
Think You Can Solve a Management Dilemma?: Think you're a smart and savvy business person? Think you've got executive potential? Think you can make it as a management consultant or an executive coach? Then try your hand at solving one of these management dilemmas or send us one of your own and we'll solve it for you....; Tags: Dilemma, Professional Development, Career, Business, Management, Leadership, Marketing Strategy, CEO, Microsoft, Management Consulting, Decision Making, Steve Tobak; Blog posts 2010-01-27
Shocker: Microsoft Talks Bing And ... Profits: It says something that it’s news when a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive says the company actually expects its online business to be profitable some day. During an interview with Reuters, Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi actually used the p word to describe the future of the company’s online business,...; Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Search, Money, Companies, Microsoft, Bing, Joseph Tartakoff; External links 2010-02-03

Microsoft: Consumers Are Spending Again; Businesses?Not Yet: Despite the company’s strong quarterly results, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executives are still expressing caution about the state of the economy. CFO Peter Klein said during the company’s surprisingly short earnings call Thursday that while consumer demand was once again “healthy,” enterprise spending had not come back yet. So when...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Mobile Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Money, Earnings, Companies, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff; External links 2010-01-28
Microsoft Blows Past Analyst Estimates: On the back of strong sales of its new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) posted big increases in net income and revenue Thursday. The company said that revenue jumped 14 percent to $19 billion from $16.6 billion during the same period a year ago; analysts had expected...; Tags: Revenue, Analyst, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Money, Earnings, Companies, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff; External links 2010-01-28
Industry Moves: CBS; Razorfish; Microsoft; Buzztime: -- *CBS*: Aaron Radin has stepped down from his post as SVP-ad sales and business development for *CBS* Television Stations Digital Media Group, he told paidContent. Prior to joining *CBS* he was VP-business development and ad sales strategy for GoldPocket Interactive, and earlier managed sales at Walt *Disney* Internet...; Tags: Advertisement, Advertising, Advertising Sales, Amanda Natividad, Business Development, CBS, CBS Corp., Companies, IACI, Industry Moves, Management, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Razorfish, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy; External links 2008-12-12
Google Quietly Tries Brokering Deals With ISPs To Get Priority Access: Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called "Net Neutrality," and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it appears Google (NSDQ: GOOG),...; Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Phone, Telephone Company, Microsoft Access, Network, AT&T Corp., Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Broadband, Companies, Comcast, Microsoft, Viacom, Yahoo, Legal, FCC, Regulatory, Media, TV, Cable & Telecom, IPTV, Tricia Duryee, Comcast Corp.; External links 2008-12-15
There's No Zune Phone Coming; But Even If It Was, Would It Be Big News?: Once again, rumors have re-surfaced that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is going to launch a Zune phone—this time at CES in January. I've held off reporting on the rumor because I don't think it is true, but more importantly, if it were true, it wouldn't be that big of a...; Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Phone, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, Technologies, Operating Systems, Tricia Duryee, Google Inc.; External links 2008-12-11
Yahoo! cuts staff as investor urges sale: Yahoo! is making the first of 1,500 job cuts and says harsher redundancies could follow next year. The move, first announced in October, aims to reduce annual costs by USD400m and comes as one of Yahoo!'s biggest shareholders puts renewed pressure on the firm to reach a deal with...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Andrew McDonald; Articles 2008-12-11
There's No Zune Phone Coming; But Even If It Was, Would It Be Big News?: Once again, rumors have re-surfaced that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is going to launch a Zune phone—this time at CES in January. I've held off reporting on the rumor because I don't think it is true, but more importantly, if it were true, it wouldn't be that big of a...; Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Phone, Microsoft Zune, Telecom & Utilities, Companies, Microsoft, Mobile, Tricia Duryee, Microsoft Corp.; External links 2008-12-11
Microsoft Could Announce Razorfish Sale By September; Publicis, WPP Play Hard To Get: It's been a few weeks since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) execs met with representatives from various ad agencies to feel out interest in who would want to buy its interactive agency, Razorfish and still no obvious deal, just lots of talk with early September as a target. Take the conflicting...; Tags: Razorfish, Microsoft Corp., WPP, Publicis, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Microsoft, David Kaplan; External links 2009-08-07
Yahoo Shareholder Pleas With Board To Make $15 Billion Search Deal With Microsoft: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) investor Ivory Investment Management went public today with a plea to the board to sell the search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for what it estimates could be $15 billion. MarketWatch reports that Ivory, which owns a 1.5 percent stake in Yahoo, issued an open letter...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Staci D. Kramer; External links 2008-12-10
Microsoft Releases Seadragon Mobile For iPhone; Free App Already Broken: Microsoft's Live Labs has released its first application for the iPhone, SeaDragon Mobile, a free image browsing app that lets users quickly zoom into high resolution pictures or photos with a few taps or pinches. And, in typical faction, as Computerworld notes in its sardonic headline, the product...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., App, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Companies, Apple, Microsoft, Gadgets, Dianne See Morrison, Nokia Corp.; External links 2008-12-15
Palm Aims For "Fat Middle Of The Market" With New OS Code-Named "Nova": On Jan. 8, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) is expected to use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the venue to unveil its new operating system, code-named Nova, which is expected to fulfill the "fat middle of the market," BusinessWeek reports. The fat middle means the new operating system...; Tags: BusinessWeek, Operating System, Palm Inc., Operating Systems, Software, Companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, Technologies, Tricia Duryee, Microsoft Corp.; External links 2008-12-15
For Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Flat Is Apparently The New Up: Last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) COO Kevin Turner said the company's Internet Explorer browser was finally showing "great momentum." He didn't quite define what he meant, but he said that Internet Explorer's share had been "declining quarter after quarter after quarter" and that by contrast Internet Explorer 8 was...; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff; External links 2009-08-05
Google's Android Is Moving Into The Digital Home: By the end of the year, it looks like Google's Android operating system will have moved beyond the smartphone. MIPS Technologies, a company which designs processors for various home entertainment devices, says it is working with partners to design Android-based platforms for set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices,...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Google, Android, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff, Microsoft Corp.; External links 2009-08-05
InfoSpace Takes Back InfoSpace.com; Relaunches Site As Meta Search Engine: The new-old entrant in the search market: InfoSpace.com. InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP), which offloaded its flagship domain two years ago, is taking it back and relaunching it as a search service featuring top results from the major search engines. It's a bit of a misnomer to say it's new since...; Tags: Search Engine, InfoSpace Inc., InfoSpace.com, Search, Companies, InfoSpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Joseph Tartakoff, Yahoo! Inc.; External links 2009-08-04
Yahoo-MSFT Deal: Details From SEC Filing: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) just filed with SEC with some more details of its search deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Some standouts:—The deal details have to be hashed out by by October 27, 2009More to come? by Rafat Ali; Tags: SEC Filing, Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, Rafat Ali, Microsoft Corp.; External links 2009-08-04