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News The 2003 sale was conducted when market conditions were poor and important contract deals incomplete, leading Carlyle Group to be able to negotiate a £55m reduction in the value of QinetiQ and the MoD agreeing to sell Carlyle 2.5 per cent more of... [10 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! said no to Google before Microsoft bid
News management to seek alternatives for its business instead of settling for Microsoft's cash-and-stock offer at $31 per share, which the company's board had rejected as undervaluing Yahoo! Yahoo! executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with... [03 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! - 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]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News In order to regain the bid's full $31-a-share value, Microsoft's stock would have to rise to $32.6, the closing share price on 29 January, a day before Microsoft presented its unsolicited offer to Yahoo! [25 Apr 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away
News In order to regain the bid's full value, Microsoft's stock would have to rise to $32.6, the closing share price on 29 January, a day before Microsoft presented its unsolicited offer to Yahoo! Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid... [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 Those reports are all the more significant in that Microsoft's bid - so far - is half stock. takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! might put pressure on Microsoft to hike its bid, while a negative one might... [22 Apr 2008]
Time Warner talks to thwart Microsoft bid?
News and Time Warner have held talks on a deal designed to thwart Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! has rejected Microsoft's bid, saying it undervalues the company. The $31 a share price at the time the bid is now worth $28.62 because of a drop in Microsoft's... [05 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up Our share price has fallen since news of the bid broke. takeover bid is about advertising isn't it? When they wrote they rebuffed your original bid last February, what did they say again? with an unsolicited bid actually an incredibly subtle plan... [08 Feb 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online world - presumably to take on Google. common shares will be exchanged for shares of Microsoft common stock and one-half of the Yahoo! [01 Feb 2008]
Microsoft bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!
News Microsoft has tabled a $44.6bn bid for web giant Yahoo! The bid values Yahoo! at $31 per share, 62 per cent more than the latest common stock value of the company. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here… [01 Feb 2008]
Oracle pulls $6.7bn BEA offer
News Oracle has pulled its $6.7bn buyout offer for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refused to entertain its $17 per share bid before its deadline expired. The billionaire investor and shareholder activist, who initially agreed with BEA's board... [29 Oct 2007]
Gateway set to acquire Packard Bell
News Hui, who is selling his shares of Packard Bell, is a former executive of eMachines, the tiny computer maker that Gateway purchased in 2004 for $262m in a bid to increase its market share. Two and a half years after that sale, in an unsolicited bid... [09 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Romania's entry into the EU has led to the country's witches, from one-person sorceresses to international covens, to flock online in a bid to win more customers. Presumably that's our in-demand developer friends again, spending large swathes of... [13 Jul 2007]
