Entries tagged "NASDAQ:MSFT"

Are buyers calling RIM?

A recent analyst downgrade has sent Research In Motion shares steeply down, so are strategics Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard calling the smartphone maker with acquisition offers?

'No plans to acquire EA,' says Microsoft

Will Electronic Arts go from the hunter to the hunted? Hard to answer, but at least one far-fetched acquirer has emphatically taken itself out of the game, Microsoft.

Qualcomm likely Zeebo lender

San Diego startup video game company Zeebo has received $6 million in debt and options, according to an SEC filing. Qualcomm Ventures is the likely lender.

Yahoo! enters purgatory

Yahoo!'s Bartz 'made a mistake' with her 'boatloads of cash' comment, and her company's shares paid for it.

Investors boo Yahoo!, Microsoft deal

With Yahoo!'s stock down all day, investors are giving the deal the thumbs-down early.

Bartz continues selloff game plan

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz's game plan has been to cast off noncore assets with the latest reportedly to make the short list being Yahoo! Games.

Will Google Chrome OS bankrupt Canonical?

Look out Canonical, publishers of Ubuntu Linux, because Google's Chrome OS project could eat it for lunch.

Google the fly in Microsoft's ointment

As media moguls and tech dealmakers mingle at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week, one topic may be the just-announced Google Chrome OS, aimed squarely at Microsoft's Windows.

Yahoo!'s 2008 legal tab

Yahoo! spent $79 million last year fending off Microsoft and wooing Google.

Microsoft overpaid severance, wants money back

Losing your job wasn't bad enough. Now your former employer says you owe it money.

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