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Microsoft CEO: "Not interested" in Yahoo!
News When discussing the failed takeover, which if successful would have been one of the biggest takeovers in IT history, Ballmer said "they turned us down at 33 dollars a share, move on". Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today... [07 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF support committee
News The International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) requested at the beginning of October that ODF maintenance work be aligned between Oasis and ISO, in a move that legal blog Groklaw's Pamela Jones described as "a... [05 Nov 2008]
Infosys pays £407m for UK SAP specialist
News This takeover by Infosys, based in the high-tech city of Bangalore - which came second in silicon.com's special report on Tech Hotspots - is yet another example of India's tech companies trying to increase their global... [26 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing takeover is imminent
News The US outsourcing giants will be knocked off their throne by the emerging Indian powerhouses by 2011, according to analysts at Gartner. Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) or Wipro will augment, or in some cases surpass,... [14 Aug 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News faced with intense shareholder pressure and a hostile takeover attempt by Microsoft, has tried to hitch itself to Google through a search-ad deal with its rival. has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised... [10 Jul 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News Many Oracle customers only became customers of the company when its fraught takeover of BEA Systems was finally agreed in January this year. BEA shareholders had originally resisted the takeover before... [24 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News to rescind anti-takeover defences and merge with Microsoft, writing "even I am amazed at the length Jerry Yang and the Yahoo! The company labelled as "patently untrue" key assertions contained in the complaint filed by... [05 Jun 2008]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo! Microsoft has given Yahoo! maintains "unrealistic expectations" of a better deal. Microsoft chief financial... [25 Apr 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! to come to the bargaining table or else face a proxy fight. Colouring the state of things will be profits... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News This adds further clarity to comments Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made at the CeBIT tech trade show a couple of weeks ago, in which he said "'there is a range of dialogue' for both companies about the proposed takeover,"... [14 Mar 2008]
Google to get the DoubleClick go-ahead?
News European regulators are planning to grant approval for Google's proposed $3.1bn takeover of DoubleClick, possibly on 11 March, according to a Bloomberg report. That would be approval without conditions, three sources... [06 Mar 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 08.02.08
Round-Up Podcast The mighty takeover bid, eBay plays nice, diet tiles and Second Life's grey goo are all discussed in this week's Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tim Ferguson and Bethan Jones. [08 Feb 2008]
Microsoft/Yahoo! - should Google be afraid of the big bad bid?
News The potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be immediate… would consider a business alliance with Google as one way to rebuff... [06 Feb 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! When tech services and hardware group HP bought PC maker Compaq, the move was hailed as the biggest takeover in the... [04 Feb 2008]
Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid
News has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be immediate. Yahoo! Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here… Photos: Zoom in on London from the air… [04 Feb 2008]
