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Regulatory approval and pleasing investors are on the minds of CEOs Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), respectively. But if they can manage both for their 10-year Web search deal, Bartz and Ballmer know a more tumultuous path is ahead of them --...
Posted on August 3, 2009 8:41 AM
It's finally happened. After all the rumors and haggling between Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), the two have come up with a 10-year Internet search deal. It's also good timing for Microsoft as it will host its annual analyst meeting on Thursday.In May, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz...
Posted on July 29, 2009 8:55 AM
A Financial Times report said Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) tapped Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) to find a potential buyer for Razorfish, its digital agency, in a deal that could be worth around $600 million to $700 million. Microsoft gained Razorfish -- which designed the logo for new search function Bing -- when...
Posted on June 29, 2009 11:35 AM
So much for surprises. According to Bloomberg, Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg gave attendees at a Citigroup Inc. conference Wednesday a heads-up on who he's choosing for a mobile Web search partner.While previous reports showed Verizon was talking to Google Inc. about sharing ad revenue, Seidenberg said Microsoft...
Posted on January 7, 2009 2:20 PM
The Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. marriage is off, as Tech Confidential's Alain Sherter so eloquently explains. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said there will be no outright acquisition of Yahoo!, but did say a partnership in the search engine market is possible. Ballmer didn't give details about what that deal may...
Posted on November 7, 2008 9:16 AM
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday night, Yahoo! Inc. CEO Jerry Yang said "To this day, I have to say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo. I don't think that is a bad idea at all ... at the right price, whatever the price is, we are willing to sell...
Posted on November 6, 2008 9:19 AM
On Monday, I posted on the political donations of executives from Anheuser-Busch Cos., Google Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. But that was just a fraction of what I turned up plugging names into this campaign search tool at Huffingtonpost.com. All told, I searched about 20 corporate...
Posted on July 1, 2008 11:20 AM
There's been a lot going on between Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc. and Google Inc. So here's a Microhoogle recap. The two outcomes most talked about are search advertising deals, wherein Yahoo! would connect with either MSFT or Google. ComScore Inc. just reported nearly 62% of searches performed in the...
Posted on May 23, 2008 10:21 AM
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
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
He's not known as someone who gives up without a fight, so when Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer raised the offer for Yahoo! Inc. from $44.6 billion to $47.5 billion then walked away from deal talks, many initially thought it was a negotiating tactic. But Silicon Alley Insider makes...
Posted on May 6, 2008 2:58 PM
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
The merger scuffle between Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. got even more interesting Thursday, as reports surfaced that Microsoft and News Corp. may jointly bid for the search engine.Yahoo! has already rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid, saying the offering price isn't enough. In February, reports surfaced that Yahoo! would...
Posted on April 10, 2008 10:16 AM
As we like to say here at Corporate Dealmaker: It's never too early to start thinking integration. So with the Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. battle flaring up, we couldn't help but give it some thought. OK, we know this is a battle that will no doubt carry on for months, what...
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:51 AM
A partnership to pursue unified communications might make a big difference -- once the two sides settle the details and show they can work together.
Posted on October 15, 2006 5:52 PM
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