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A federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against current and former Apple executives. LOS ANGELES–A federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over…
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Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp’s Web properties. NEW YORK–Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew…
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates’ final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates’ farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead. …
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates’ final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates’ farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead. …
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Search is more than a technical check mark for your product–it’s an investment. You need to pay attention to the desing of the embedded search platform itself, says Attivio’s Andrew McKay. “Embedded search” (also referred to as ?OEM search?) is the integration or embedding of search technology into another…
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Software giant says it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its unsolicited offer for Yahoo. Microsoft said Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited…
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While some employees see Microsoft’s bid as a positive development, they worry a merger would cool Yahoo’s free-spirited atmosphere. Will Yahoos’ yodels be silenced? Yahoo employees fretted on Friday that their fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a cowboy yodel, could get quashed by…
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To pull this off, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper. I found the perfect description to sum up the idea of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, but CNET News.com’s managing editor threatened to knock my lights out…
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To pull this off, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper. I found the perfect description to sum up the idea of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, but CNET News.com’s managing editor threatened to knock my lights out…
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Microsoft faces financial and legal hurdles in its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com walks you through the potential steps. Microsoft faces several financial and legal hurdles on its way to wooing Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion buyout bid. Here’s a brief FAQ explaining some of…
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Offer amounts to $31 per share, which Microsoft said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price. Microsoft on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion. Microsoft said it had offered to…
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Offer–described by Yahoo as “unsolicited”–amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday. Microsoft went public Friday with a $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. In its response, Yahoo called the Microsoft bid “unsolicited” but did not reject it….
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Chief Executive Kevin DeNuccio will become vice chairman, company says, and Georges Antoun, a Redback vice president, will replace him. The head of telecom equipment maker Ericsson’s Redback Networks is leaving his executive position to become vice chairman of the unit, Redback’s chairman said on Thursday. …
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Just before 2004 IPO, Brin, Page, and Schmidt agreed to work together for two decades, according to magazine report. Google’s top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company’s initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine…
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Sales growth expected to continue but slow down as company integrates Business Objects; further acquisitions not ruled out. SAP forecast sales growth and higher margins on Wednesday despite a volatile wider economy, but the software maker gave a conservative outlook for 2008 as it expands into new markets….
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Investors are set to focus on company outlooks and how a slowing U.S. economy will lead to ad cutbacks, less online shopping. Big Internet stocks have fallen 25 percent to 40 percent in the last quarter and haven’t looked cheaper in years. But despite expected strong year-end…
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A funding gap, made worse by a softening economy, could create a wall for clean-tech start-ups despite a favorable long-term environment. For green-tech start-ups, 2008 could be the year of either break-neck speed or just hitting the brakes. A tidal wave of venture capital has poured into…
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The village of Jucu doesn’t have a full-time doctor, a school-house, or indoor toilets. But it does–still–have relatively cheap labor. The tiny village of Jucu in northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from farming vegetables such as…
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Investors may be panicking, but Seagate CEO Bill Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture than the one on CNBC. Like a lot of technology CEOs these days, Seagate’s Bill Watkins finds himself frequently asked whether the world as we know it is coming to…
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A horde of nouveau riche have moved on from the company, trading on Google credentials to reach new heights in tech or attempting to save the world. What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every…
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