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RSS stock talksHP close to buying EDS for $12bn
News Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems, HP has confirmed. The Wall Street Journal initially reported the two have been in talks for HP to buy EDS for $12bn to $13bn, citing unnamed... [13 May 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News is still in talks about a partnership with AOL and continues an advertising test with Google. Those reports are all the more significant in that Microsoft's bid - so far - is half stock. In the latest in... [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! The companies held talks earlier but talks heated up after Yahoo! and Microsoft could hold... [05 Mar 2008]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT director Colin Cobain - just crowned CIO of the year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007 - talks about the supermarket giant's move to... [25 Sep 2007]
Desktop PC 'not dead - but changing'
News Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista ¦ The traditional desktop PC is not yet doomed - but is going through a transformation, according to HP. While laptops are becoming increasing attractive to consumers and small... [06 Sep 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment... [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment... [06 Jun 2007]
Beeb to show off in Second Life
News Linden dollars can also be exchanged for real money on the company's own version of the stock exchange. The programme, scheduled for TV broadcast tomorrow, will be screened simultaneously inside Second Life - at the... [31 May 2007]
YouTube vs Viacom: 'It's about free speech' - Google
News The companies have not had formal settlement talks, he said. YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65bn in stock, is protected from charges of copyright violation under the Hosting Safe Harbor... [01 May 2007]
AOL gives IM a spit and polish
News joined their IM networks and declined to say whether they were in talks with AOL on connecting the IM networks. Users also have easy access to Wall Street Journal finance, technology and business stories and... [19 Jul 2006]
Microsoft backs Skinkers alerts - eyeing the enterprise
News Microsoft technology developed out of its Cambridge labs will make its way into the Skinkers offering, although Noble pointed out negotiations involved talks with Redmond. In addition to alerting publications' readers to... [06 Jun 2006]
Vodafone 'shuns $38bn Verizon Wireless bid'
News According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the two companies have started talks about the potential sale of Vodafone's 45 per cent share in the mobile operator, although Arun Sarin is said to have rejected the $38bn... [10 May 2006]
Google squashes Napster buy rumour
News A Google spokeswoman said talks of a possible combination between the search giant and Napster were "a complete rumour". Whispers of a tie-up initially sent Napster stock skywards. Google's... [01 Feb 2006]
Disney splashes $7.4bn on Pixar buy
News However, talks to extend the deal turned sour, with allegations flying back and forth between Jobs, who is also Pixar's CEO, and Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner. In January 2004, Pixar announced it was breaking off... [25 Jan 2006]
HP denies CSC bid
News The source, who requested anonymity, said: "CSC has occasionally come up from time to time as a potential acquisition but it's nothing that we ever seriously pursued and nothing we were in talks with recently. [23 Jan 2006]
