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Allied Waste discusses divestitures with DOJ (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Here's the deal: The No. 1 U.S. trash hauler, Waste Management Inc., raised its unsolicited bid for No. 3 hauler Republic Services Inc. to $6.73 billion. Republic rejected that bid in August. It would rather hook up with No. 2 hauler, Allied Waste Industries. And things are moving forward....

Posted on September 17, 2008 4:59 PM

Frank Biondi on Icahn's proxy list for Yahoo! (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Yahoo! Inc. upset shareholders because of the way it handled Microsoft Corp.'s now retracted $47.5 billion offer. Now Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is stuck looking for other strategic options to appease the dissidents. An alliance with Google Inc. may not get antitrust approval as that would give Yahoogle!, which recently...

Posted on May 15, 2008 9:12 AM

Bill Gates quells Facebook deal rumors, for now (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Reports surfaced Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. bankers contacted Facebook about a deal for the whole company. MSFT put a valuation of $15 billion on the social networking site when it paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in October. The call, however, according to ATD, was just to gauge...

Posted on May 7, 2008 6:49 PM

Microsoft's multifront war (from Corporate Dealmaker)

There's plenty of comment out Monday morning on what's next for Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. To get started you need look no further than our sister blogs -- specifically, Andrea Orr's report on questions for CEO Steve Ballmer on Tech Confidential, and Maria Woehr's piece on Yahoo! shareholders on...

Posted on May 5, 2008 11:32 AM

Bill Gates' energy JV hires for acquisition push (from Corporate Dealmaker)

EnergyCo, specializing in software and consulting services for electric distribution and transmission systems, hired Wendy Carlson as vice president of finance and chief development officer. Her duties...

Posted on January 25, 2008 1:27 PM

Microsoft M&A man leaves after $1.2B deal (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Just after the company announced a $1.2 billion deal for Norway's Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Microsoft Corp.'s vice president of corporate development, Bruce Jaffe, said he's leaving the firm at the end of February. Jaffe, who has a 12-year tenure at the firm, has seen the company through 20 acquisitions during the last...

Posted on January 10, 2008 5:34 PM

Gates' deal-heavy farewell at CES (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A third of a century after founding Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates will cease his day-to-day work at the firm, remaining as chairman. Gates' final speech at the Consumer Electronics Show was laden with talk of new products, growth strategy and, inevitably, deals. Gates announced partnerships with Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal...

Posted on January 7, 2008 5:28 PM