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Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo on Saturday after the Internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by US$5 billion to US$47.5 billion.
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Microsoft drops Yahoo takeover bid
San Francisco, May 4 (Reuters): Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo Inc after the latter turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion to $47.5 billion.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-04 22:16 Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft's $47.5B bid
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Oct 2006 21:08 UTC
Who makes the most reliable computers ? Lenovo, closely followed by Apple, if you believe online service and support company Rescuecom's latest reliability audit, derived from more than 20,000 calls made by the firm's customers during the second quarter this year.
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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft's $47.5B bid
Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press May 4, 2008 - 5:14 p.m. In this Oct. 18, 2007 file photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gestures as he talks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft's $47.5B bid
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.
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Peeping tomcat sets off govt hacking alarm
New Delhi, May 4: The cabinet secretariat’s website was showing the homepage of a private software company this afternoon, raising fears that the site had been hacked into.
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Samsung settles patent dispute with Renesas
Samsung Electronics, the world¡¯s largest computer memory chip maker, settled its patent dispute over semiconductors with Renesas Technology Corporation.
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Asia Day Ahead: U.S. Stocks Rise; Microsoft Walks From Yahoo!
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose for a third week after a better-than-forecast jobs report and the $23 billion takeover of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. pushed the market to its longest streak of gains in seven months.
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Bill Gates: It's Fun To Be An Underdog
Microsoft chairman, with his pal Buffett in Omaha, talks to Forbes.com.
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Competitive zeal of Ballmer key element in Yahoo chase
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — As Yahoo continued to resist Microsoft's $42 billion takeover offer, a key question was just how far Microsoft's excitable CEO, Steve Ballmer, was willing to go in hopes of defeating online advertising and search leader Google.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Aug 2007 06:42 UTC
Let's back up for a moment. It's 2007. Most geeks like you and me already use dual monitor setups with their multi-purpose desktop machines. However, have you ever asked yourself if that second monitor should be that old XGA LCD monitor from your previous PC, or a big, impressive flat panel television ? Geeks.com sent us in an iLO 32" HDTV and we review it exactly as such: a computer monitor!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:40 UTC
Yesterday we reported on ' Ten Reasons Not to Get Vista ', featuring two rebuttals. APCMag, the publisher of the first article, now also published a rebuttal . "I've been running Vista at APC since the earliest leaked builds, and witnessed its extraordinary evolution as Microsoft meandered its way towards the final product.
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The extension of daylight-saving time by a month in the United States is causing enormous grief for some IT ...
running Microsoft software, as many of the software programs running on their users' systems need to be individually patched to reflect the change. This year, daylight-saving time starts today - three weeks earlier than usual - and ends a week later than usual on Nov. 4.
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Yahoo and News Corp talks have 'cooled'
Yahoo Inc's talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on an alternative deal to Microsoft Corp's takeover bid have "cooled" in recent weeks, one source familiar with the matter has said.
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Microsoft pulls plug on Yahoo takeover
Microsoft Corp has withdrawn its offer for Yahoo Inc as negotiations fell through on price, even after the software giant raised its bid by about $US5 billion ($NZ6.51billion) to $47.5 billion.
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AT&T and Microsoft Holding Contest for Indie Mobile Games
$25,000 and publishing contract for the best new mobile game.
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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft.s $47.5B bid
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer. It will be a daunting challenge, as Yang will be pointedly reminded Monday when investors are expected to show how little they think of Yahoo without a takeover bid on the table. Faced with resistance from ...
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Timeline: Microsoft, Yahoo's Ended Merger Dance
AÂ chronology of events leading to Microsoft Corp.'s decision to abandon its offer for Web search and advertising competitor Yahoo Inc.
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No joy for Yahoo has Microsoft walks away
NEW YORK - Yahoo faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft after the software maker walked away over a major disagreement on price.
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Amazon suing New York state over new sales tax law
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has sued the state of New York, challenging a new statute requiring Internet retailers based elsewhere to collect New York sales taxes.
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Backing up Microsoft Exchange... with Yahoo's Zimbra
LinuxWorld: "But a small Austin-based vendor is using Zimbra to complement, not replace, Microsoft's market-leading e-mail server..."
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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft's $47.5B bid
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - 0504dv--yahoo--microsoft Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.
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Gates: Great To Be An Underdog
Microsoft founder says he looks forward to competing with Google on search.
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Egyptians ignore Facebook strike call
Egyptians largely ignored a call by online activists for a general strike Sunday to protest against the government on President Hosni Mubarak's 80th birthday.
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