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 Entries tagged "Microsoft"AOLIt's official. Time Warner Inc. will finally spin off AOL LLC on Dec. 9, 2009. Since the landmark merger that brought Time Warner and AOL together in 2000, it's been a bumpy ride. Yahoo!The long drawn-out Yahoo!-Microsoft-Google saga has entered a new stage as Yahoo! and Microsoft team up on a 10-year partnership. Google continues to make deal headlines. And with the Queen of Competition in the driver's seat, here comes Antitrust 2.0. May 29: A Deal scoop reveals the DOJ is probing possible tech hiring pact. The new normalWith $33 billion in cash and equivalents and a track record of 133 acquisitions since it snapped up its first company in 1993, it's no stretch to say Cisco wrote the book on tech M&A. Playing defense on patentsRPX aims to protect tech companies from trolls, but that can also entail doing business with them. Temple opens upChris Temple is in as president of Vulcan Capital. Traction controlGM's West Coast technology outpost bridges the gap between Silicon Valley and Detroit. A new CharterPaul Allen's cable company finally began to crumble under crushing debt. To the rescue: an unlikely gang of creditors, who used some fine print to ram home a prepack. Queen of competitionIf confirmed as assistant attorney general, Christine Varney will need to resuscitate a demoralized antitrust unit. Going mobileVenture capitalists keep pouring money into mobile advertising startups. Fire in the holeThe financial crisis dropped a bomb on VC investment, unearthing structural problems. Earning their keepTech corporate development pros keep buying, but pick their spots. Obama's antitrust revivalThe recession and struggling companies may hamstring the president-elect's ability to say no to mergers. Visible handForbes lectures Obama on the evils of the welfare state, and Yahoo!'s Yang plays the ingenue. Yellow taleInvestors have hammered directories companies for fear they'll be engulfed by Google. The future may be challenging, but they may have a better chance than their share price suggests. Searching for growthMobile phone search services present a huge opportunity for startups and deep-pocketed giants alike. Manifest destinyNew York law firms have become a force to be reckoned with in once-impenetrable Silicon Valley. On guardYour odds of receiving a hostile bid are getting higher. Optimistic activistsThe financial crisis has made for some tempting targets for hedge funds, but expect fewer demands for cash payouts and more calls for better management. Beyond fluxMarket chaos has effectively stifled most M&A activities. But investment bankers already look ahead to when a kind of dealmaking normalcy prevails. Friends in right placesJed Sherwindt kept in touch with Eduardo Mestre after he left Citigroup. It helped him land a new gig at Evercore. The fight for Yahoo!It had looked like Yahoo!'s takeover struggle with Microsoft could come down to a proxy fight with Carl Icahn. The two sides settled, but here's a look at the two slates of candidates. Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens Communications chairman and CEOWilderotter, a Yahoo! board member since July 2007, worked for Microsoft from 2002 to 2004. Chip inIntel Capital unveils its latest startup investments, and Silicon Valley gets mean. | ||||||||||||||||
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