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RSS bidYahoo! - Microsoft walks away
News latest on the bid Microsoft dashes Yahoo! bid Microsoft bids $44.6bn for Yahoo! shares, which dropped $4.3 to end at $24.37 on Monday, could have fallen 30 per cent to closer to $19.18, its price before Microsoft made... [06 May 2008]
Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions
News over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Microsoft, according to the report, has indicated it would be willing to raise its bid to as much as $33 per share but such an offer... [01 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment In addition, from next month, it will also allow all keywords that include unauthorised trademark terms, which it previously blocked, to be bid against. The new policy still prevents other advertisers from including trademarks in their ad copy... [30 Apr 2008]
Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff
News should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the internet search pioneer, according to court documents in a shareholder lawsuit cited by the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! [30 Apr 2008]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News s board of directors: that Microsoft would consider cutting its bid, now worth about $44bn, and take its case to Yahoo! no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo! [25 Apr 2008]
Hacking 'goodies' get industry body
News An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut... [25 Apr 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away
News Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid for Yahoo! s board to accept a deal with Microsoft or face a lower bid, which Microsoft would take directly to Yahoo! In order to regain the bid's full value, Microsoft's stock would have to... [24 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned
News posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its shareholders hoped might force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid. He said: "Microsoft's offer is still the best offer on the table," adding... [23 Apr 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! Those reports are all the more significant in that Microsoft's bid - so far - is half stock. might put pressure on Microsoft to hike its bid, while a negative one might... [22 Apr 2008]
Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor
White Paper Therefore, their use in bid specifications is relatively unimportant. The terms Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor refer to completely different and unrelated phenomena. These characteristics are often specified for UPS systems, and... [10 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News In a bid to make web development easier and more scalable, the company says the Google App Engine allows access to the power of the company's own Bigtable compressed database and the Google File System. [09 Apr 2008]
Microsoft deals Yahoo! an ultimatum
News And as a further prod in securing a deal, Microsoft threatened to lower its existing bid, citing how Yahoo! Microsoft initially offered an unsolicited buyout bid of $31 per share for Yahoo! which already rejected Microsoft's initial offer as too... [07 Apr 2008]
Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals
News The submission says: "This leads to the "bid it thin and get it in" strategy of many outsourcing providers who price contracts at up to 18 per cent below market rate on day one rising to 30 per cent above market rate by year three of the contract. [04 Apr 2008]
SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids
White Paper The key advantages of the approach are that it allows: resource owners to have finer degree of control over the resource allocation that was previously not possible through traditional mechanism; and superschedulers to bid for SLA contracts in the... [27 Mar 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared with 1 February when Microsoft issued its unsolicited buyout bid for Yahoo! Microsoft and Yahoo! are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the "radio silence" that previously... [14 Mar 2008]
