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Icahn has bid adieu to Yahoo!. Months after publicly battling management to sell the company to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn quietly announced his resignation from Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on Friday. The Deal Pipeline (subscription required) has more details on the Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal and earnings.Yahoo!...
Posted on October 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Tom Phillips, Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) head of search and analytics who was director of the DoubleClick integration, is now CEO of venture-backed Media6Degrees. The small New York company says it has created the first advertising technology that delivers targeted, customized and scalable audiences based on online social connections. For more...
Posted on October 9, 2009 3:22 PM
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) president and CEO Shantanu Narayen calls the company's acquisition of Web analytics company Omniture Inc. (NASDAQ:OMTR) for $1.8 billion in cash a game changer. Narayen says, "Adobe customers are looking to us for solutions to deliver engaging experiences and more effectively monetize their content and applications...
Posted on September 16, 2009 3:51 PM
Dentsu Inc. reportedly bid $700 million for Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Razorfish digital marketing unit in August, only to lose out to a $530 million bid from Publicis Groupe SA. The reason, reportedly, was that Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, lacked the U.S. commercial presence to compete with the five-year strategic...
Posted on September 3, 2009 10:07 AM
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
Now that the details of the Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MFST)-Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) search pact are out, talk has turned to integration. Even though this is not an acquisition, the classic merger challenges are all present and accounted for. They include technology integration, leadership and management structure, talent retention, compensation and cultural...
Posted on July 30, 2009 4:08 PM
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
Along with a 13% revenue decline, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced Street-beating profits Tuesday. Since CEO Carol Bartz took over, the company has cut jobs and shuttered Web sites such as GeoCities, which it acquired for $2.9 billion in 1999. Now, according to peHUB, it looks as if Yahoo! is trying...
Posted on July 22, 2009 10:16 AM
Google's Chrome OS puts it in direct competition with Apple, making Google CEO Eric Schmidt's directorship of Apple -- already under FTC scrutiny -- even more questionable.
Posted on July 10, 2009 1:25 PM
In an unfortunate quirk of scheduling, two separate meetings of major import to the global economy are both happening on Wednesday, making it impossible for Corporate Dealmaker to offer an appropriate curtain-raiser for both. But rather than leaving readers completely dependent on CNBC, we offer this handy compare-and-contrast guide to...
Posted on July 8, 2009 10:48 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
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief executive Carol Bartz was quoted as saying, "I personally think we'd be better off if we never heard the word Microsoft." Bartz made the comment in reference to all the attention the Internet giant has been getting over a possible search engine deal with Microsoft...
Posted on June 3, 2009 4:05 PM
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief executive Carol Bartz, in a video interview with Tech Ticker, said the Internet giant is not a search company and would seek to monetize its 76% reach of the U.S. Internet audience by keeping users happy.In the eight-minute interview, Bartz lays out her strategic priorities:...
Posted on May 28, 2009 8:25 AM
At this week's All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to announce a new search engine, dubbed Bing, and an ad campaign to go with it. Microsoft may also be positioning for a joint venture or acquisition; last week it registered a limited liability company in Delaware.Everyone knows...
Posted on May 26, 2009 5:35 PM
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MFST) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) are investing $180 million in a four-year effort to deliver unified communication and collaboration services. The companies will work together on products that streamline communication for customers across messaging, video and voice devices. As a Gartner Inc. research note points out, UCC is one of...
Posted on May 21, 2009 2:50 PM
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has long said it needs to do more to tap into social networking. Chief technology officer Ari Balogh, at the the Reuters Global Technology Summit, said, "It's a good time to be buying now." Reuters noted that Balogh said Yahoo! has had conversations with companies about...
Posted on May 21, 2009 12:09 PM
As expected, Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney erased a policy the Bush administration set in place that made it difficult to pursue antitrust cases against big firms, such as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Varney said in a statement that "the division will return to tried and...
Posted on May 11, 2009 4:17 PM
It may not be 100% reliable, but for the vast number of Internet surfers, user-updated online encyclopedia Wikipedia is just fine. It's so fine that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has decided to let its Encarta encyclopedia join the ranks of door-to-door Encyclopedia Britannica salesmen this year, although Microsoft is still hanging...
Posted on March 31, 2009 1:41 PM
Redwood City, Calif.-based video game developer and publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) lost $454 million last year. Its stock price has been depressed since November (it lost 60% between August and November). And in September, EA abandoned its bid to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) -- maker of...
Posted on March 26, 2009 12:05 PM
Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) is in talks to acquire Santa Clara, Calif.'s Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) for at least $6.5 billion in cash.The two companies have a common interest in that both make computer systems for corporate customers that...
Posted on March 18, 2009 9:06 AM
Many tech-friendly consumers have basked in the seeming grandeur of Apple Inc. incarnate -- its trendy retail stores. Now Microsoft Corp. wants in on the action -- and the cash -- and has hired 25-year Wal-Mart Stores Inc. veteran David Porter to head its retail strategy.Opening stores in the...
Posted on February 13, 2009 2:39 PM
Time Warner Inc., which just reported a $16 billion quarterly loss, has to be frustrated with Internet media company AOL LLC, which reported a 23% drop in quarterly revenue and also announced layoffs. Sharing the frustration is Google Inc., which spent $1 billion on a 5% stake in AOL in...
Posted on February 4, 2009 2:59 PM
Making itself a more attractive target, Yahoo! Inc. filed papers in Delaware state court to settle shareholder lawsuits over a broad severance package adopted to deter Microsoft Corp.'s unwelcome $47.5 billion takeover bid. The package would have guaranteed almost all employees cash-and-stock benefits if their jobs were negatively affected...
Posted on December 11, 2008 10:01 AM
Microsoft Corp. has hired Simon Leung (pictured) as chief executive of its greater China region. The former Motorola Inc. executive will be responsible for strategy and growth across all of Microsoft's China businesses. He replaces Ya-Qin Zhang, who will serve as chairman of the China research and development group. As...
Posted on November 14, 2008 11:12 AM
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have created a search alliance regarding Sun Micro's Java technology -- a striking development since Microsoft has paid more than $2 billion over the years to settle lawsuits filed by Sun claiming it was misusing Java. The deal announced Monday calls for Sun...
Posted on November 10, 2008 4:09 PM
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