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- SAP CEO: Ballmer Should Have Bought Yahoo
- If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft Poised to Detail Next Moves on Yahoo: CEO
- By Anupreeta Das and Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away from a deal with Yahoo remained one of "three big options" the company is weighing and to expect an announcement...
- News items 2008-05-01
- steve ballmer: Read These Books Before Microsoft Buys Yahoo!
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- BNET Video: Ballmer Gets Intense Talking Microsoft Strategy
- Speaking at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business on March 15, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer elaborates on what he thinks makes a good leader, and the kinds of employees the software giant wants in its workplace. by BNET staff
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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- Microsoft could still snag Yahoo, experts say
- SEATTLE -- Microsoft may yet reel in Yahoo. That's a prevailing sentiment among Wall Street stock analysts and Internet advertising experts following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's withdrawal of the software giant's sweetened $47.5 billion offer to acquire Yahoo. The unfolding of that scenario assumes angry Yahoo...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Social Networking CEO Offers Dream Deal to Microsoft's steve ballmer
- LOS ANGELES, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- "Microsoft walked away from Yahoo! over the weekend and could aim its billions at other targets," states Judy Myers, CEO and founder of the tech world's first conjoined video, music and social networking sites, uboomeru.com, uboomerutv.com and Boomer Games Inc. Myers states, "Think...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Microsoft withdraws Yahoo! acquisition proposal
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-6 May 2008-Microsoft withdraws Yahoo! acquisition proposal(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Software company Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT) has announced that its proposal to acquire Internet company Yahoo! Inc (Nasdaq:YHOO) has been withdrawn. Microsoft said it continues to believe its proposed acquisition of Yahoo! made sense for both...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Microsoft withdraws Yahoo! acquisition proposal
- CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Software company Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT) has announced that its proposal to acquire Internet company Yahoo! Inc (Nasdaq:YHOO) has been withdrawn. Microsoft said it continues to believe its proposed acquisition of Yahoo! made sense for both companies and the market as...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- How the 'no deal' went down for Microsoft-Yahoo
- SAN FRANCISCO -- For three months, Microsoft chased Yahoo in an escalating game of corporate cat-and-mouse. Yet in one day, it all came to an abrupt end after a civil discussion between executives of both companies. A rush of last-minute talks between heads of the companies...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Microsoft drops Yahoo, looks ahead
- SAN FRANCISCO -- With its quest for Yahoo abruptly over, Microsoft must now pursue a Plan B to compete with Google for Internet advertising dollars. Microsoft dropped its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo late Saturday, after the two tech titans could not agree on a price. ...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Yahoo set to plunge after Microsoft's $46bn bid is withdrawn
- Yahoo shares are set to tumble today after its dismissal of an improved $46.5bn (23.6bn) takeover approach from Microsoft prompted the software giant to walk away. Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said Microsoft had pulled its $33-a-share offer because Yahoo's demand for $37 made no sense. The...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc. The decision to walk away from the deal came Saturday after...
- Articles 2008-05-04
- Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
- REDMOND, Wash., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. . (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) "We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our...
- Articles 2008-05-03
- Microsoft promises Yahoo move 'in very short order'
- SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday told employees he won't pay "a dime above" what he thinks Yahoo is worth and they will know the next move in the takeover quest "in very short order." Steve Ballmer's comments on the Microsoft's still-unresolved 44.6-billion-dollar bid for...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Sourcefire® Founder Named One of the Most Influential People in Information Technology
- Open Source Innovator Martin Roesch Recognized by eWeek COLUMBIA, Md. -- Open source innovator and SNORT([R]) creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), a leader in Enterprise Threat Management, today announced that company founder and CTO Martin Roesch was named to eWeek's Top 100 Most Influential People in IT list, which...
- Articles 2008-04-29
- Microsoft takeover deadline for Yahoo expires
- SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6-billion-dollar (28.5-billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Saturday, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant. Neither of the two sides made any comment as the Sunday 0700 GMT...
- Articles 2008-04-25
- Is Microsoft's Ballmer a bad dealmaker?
- The bid for Yahoo that helped sink the market value of Microsoft by more than $20 billion in one day in early February is one of the latest in a string of acquisitions and major investment stakes Microsoft has initiated since CEO Steve Ballmer took over in 2000 that have...
- Articles 2008-04-24
- Yahoo earnings could provide leverage
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo, facing a looming deadline from Microsoft and its $43.2 billion hostile takeover bid, on Tuesday said first-quarter earnings more than tripled. The results should embolden Yahoo in its resolve for a sweetened bid from Microsoft or fend off the takeover entirely, financial analysts say....
- Articles 2008-04-23
- BTM Founder Faisal Hoque Named One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology
- Ziff Davis Enterprise Editors Select Those Shaping the Future of Technology STAMFORD, Conn. -- Faisal Hoque, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the BTM Corporation, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis Enterprise. The ranking, put together by...
- Articles 2008-04-08
- Yahoo wants a better offer from Microsoft
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo, facing a late April deadline from Microsoft to accept its $41 billion buyout offer, on Monday said that it does not oppose a deal with the world's largest software maker but wants a sweetened bid. "We are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft...
- Articles 2008-04-08
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