Archive for the 'Microsoft Corp.' Category
Friday, February 1st, 2008
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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Corporate & legal, Yahoo! Inc., Stock, Stock Price, Microsoft Corp., Finance, CNET Networks Inc., Investment, Financial Accounting, Reuters |
Friday, February 1st, 2008
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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Corporate Governance, Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Ina Fried, Business Structures, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Finance, Microsoft Corp., Corporate & legal, Investment |
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
With critical ISO vote on ratification of Office Open XML looming, company maintains it has users’ best interests at heart. Weeks away from a crucial International Organization for Standardization vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft’s proposed Office Open XML standard, the software giant is engaged in…
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Microsoft Office, Brett Winterford, ISO, ECMA, Web Development, XML, Software/Web Development, Emerging Technologies, Open source, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Apple Inc. |
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Tech gets battered on the stock market, but not Microsoft, which seems recession-proof. Also: Wireless goes to Washington. Financial markets around the world went on a wild ride this week, and tech stocks were not immune to the nausea. The Dow had back-to-back trading sessions…
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eBay Inc., FCC, Wi-Fi, Handset, Tech, Wireless Carrier, Stock, Revenue, Steven Musil, Apple Inc., Week in Review, Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Apple iPhone |
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie asks how seriously Microsoft’s Web browser will support an upcoming Web standards test. Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly. …
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Acid2, Web Browser, Acid3, IE 8 Team, Web Browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Håkon Wium Lie, Marketing, Internet, Channel Management, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Web |
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Revenue projected to get a boost as strong computer sales drive demand for company’s Windows operating system and Office software. Microsoft is expected to report a sharp rise in quarterly profit this week, boosted by surging revenue as strong computer sales drive demand for its Windows operating system…
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Operating Systems, Sales Strategy, PC, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Corporate & legal, Reuters, Software, Microsoft Corp., Sales |
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Software maker buys Calista Technologies, broadens partnership with Citrix in aim to better compete with virtualization leader. Microsoft has acquired a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems, targeting VMware’s early lead in virtualization technology. Microsoft unveiled the news on Monday as part…
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VMware Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Technology, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Utility Computing, CNET Networks Inc., Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Reuters |
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Ultrathin laptop debuts, along with other Apple products, as Microsoft gets patent-happy. Also: Detroit auto show goes green. After months of rumor and speculation, Apple kicked off Macworld by clearing the air about its new laptop. Apple CEO Steve Jobs wowed the crowd during his…
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Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., MacBook Air, Scott, Laptop Computer, Plug-in, Steven Musil, Week in Review, Movie, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. |
Friday, January 18th, 2008
A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing the software giant, alleging it filched technology that lets Net users type Chinese characters. A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing Microsoft because it says the software giant has stolen its creation that allows Internet users to type Chinese characters,…
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Intellectual Property, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Research & Development, Business Operations, Zhongyi Electronic, Lawsuit, CNET Networks Inc., Software, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Corporate & legal, Reuters |
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Speculation mars Burton Group report that suggests Microsoft’s OOXML document format is preferable to ODF, says OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The latest generation of document standards…
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OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, OpenDocument Format, OpenOffice.org, David Meyer, Microsoft Corp., Open source, Burton Group, Speculation, Software |
