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RSS stock takeoverInfosys 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]
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! He was echoing a public threat made by chief executive Steve Ballmer at a conference near Milan on Wednesday that... [25 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. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up takeover bid is about advertising isn't it? For more chinwaggin' on the takeover bid, get an earful of the silicon.com podcast. common stock and get started on the process of integrating... [08 Feb 2008]
Microsoft seals $6bn aQuantive deal
News Microsoft has completed the largest purchase in its history, sealing its $6bn takeover of internet advertising firm aQuantive. In the filing, aQuantive said its board has resigned, as planned, and that it has notified... [15 Aug 2007]
Virgin Media receives private equity offer
News Virgin Media has received a takeover bid from private equity organisation, the Carlyle Group, it was revealed today. However, the company said it is not in negotiations regarding the offer to buy 100 per cent of its... [02 Jul 2007]
Semel quits as Yahoo! CEO
News is a takeover target, Semel said: "The board and I believe Yahoo! The shakeup comes nearly one week after a somewhat contentious shareholder meeting in which stockholders criticised Semel's pay in light of the company's... [19 Jun 2007]
Microsoft to buy speech-recognition web firm?
News More recently, the company has been the subject of takeover rumours, including reports it would be bought by Google or Microsoft. Tellme was seen as a potential target for an initial public offering last year, though a... [13 Mar 2007]
Red Hat-JBoss union: Open source comes of age
News JBoss had become an attractive takeover target because of the wide adoption of its Java application server, and it had had discussions with a number of acquirers, said JBoss founder and CEO Marc Fleury. [11 Apr 2006]
Red Hat and JBoss to merge
News Red Hat's move ends months of speculation over a possible acquirer for JBoss, which has seen rapid growth in the past two years and had become a likely takeover candidate. The transaction is 40 per cent cash and 60 per... [10 Apr 2006]
Google squashes Napster buy rumour
News The rumour first started circulating following a report in the New York Post which said Google was readying its chequebook for a takeover, or preparing to announce a union between the two. Since Google first made it... [01 Feb 2006]
Shareholders take a swipe at Sun
News Shareholder activists are calling for Sun to do away with its "poison pill" takeover defence and realign its executives' stock option plan to be more performance-based, according to a Sun proxy filed on... [22 Sep 2005]
Google to thwart Microsoft with AOL bid?
News Google could try to bid for AOL to pre-empt a Microsoft takeover and protect the $380m in revenue Google gets from its biggest partner, according to an analyst. The Merrill Lynch note came within days after Google raised... [20 Sep 2005]
Oracle snaps up Siebel for $5.8bn
News Siebel has been a subject of takeover rumours for a while, particularly since the departure of CEO Mike Lawrie. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison included the company in a list of takeover targets during Oracle's... [12 Sep 2005]
Ex-Groove VP tries to block Microsoft takeover
News An ex-Groove Networks executive suffered a legal setback on Friday in his bid to block Microsoft's takeover of his former company. Matthews' suit charges that the deal is unfair to some employees who hold preferred and... [04 Apr 2005]
