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@ EconAds: Nancy Peretsman, Managing Director, Allen & Co., It's All About The Buyers
Having been in the middle of some of the most significant digital media deals, through her position as Allen & Co. Managing Director, Nancy Peretsman is uniquely qualified to dive deep into the economics of the big stories: Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) being particularly noteworthy. During a one-on-one discussion with Rafat Ali during EconAds, Peretsman predicted the future deal activity will in ...
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@ EconAds: Microsoft Still Has M&A Needs; Who Knows If MSFT-YHOO Will Happen?
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)will the deal happen? Will any deal happen? Those questions met with uncertain answers from ContentNext's EconAds' final panel, a look at deals and the online ad marketplace.
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Yahoo Sets Annual Meeting For August 1
Following reports that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) held a board meeting today, the company filed an updated proxy with the SEC setting August, 1 as the date for its annual shareholders meeting. Recall that the company delayed its meeting not long after Icahn announced his slate. It was unclear at the time who this favored: Both sides, it seemed, would enjoy the extra time to gird for battle. By setting ...
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Legal Docs Show Yang Torpedoed Juicier Microsoft Deal
A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Yahoo could not keep secret the details of an investors' lawsuit over its spurning of Microsoft's acquisition efforts. The complaint alleges that Yahoo turned away a $40 per share offer to be acquired by Microsoft in 2007 -- months before the software company went public with a far lower bid -- and also declined an offer of a search advertising partnership with ...
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FX Solutions Introduces GTS Mobile Forex Trading Platform for Fast, Easy Trading Access
SADDLE RIVER, N.J., BUSINESS WIRE -- FX Solutions (www.fxsolutions.com), a technology-driven online foreign exchange broker, today introduced GTS Mobile (www.fxsolutions.com/trading/gts-mobile.asp) to give forex traders anytime, anywhere access (1) to their Global Trading System (GTS) accounts.
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Constellation Software Inc. Reaches Agreement to Acquire Municipal Software Corporation
TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Constellation Software Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary N. Harris Computer Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Municipal Solutions Group , including the shares of its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Municipal Software Corporation .
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Schools' computer cash still a guess
THE commonwealth is yet to finalise how much it will provide to each state and school system to purchase computers.
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Constellation Software Inc. Reaches Agreement to Acquire Municipal Software Corporation
Constellation Software Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary N. Harris Computer Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Municipal Solutions Group, including the shares of its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Municipal Software Corporation.
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RIM Files Preemptory Suit Against German Patent-License Co.
TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Research In Motion has fired a preemptory strike against IP Com, asking a Texas federal court to declare that RIM hasn't infringed on three IP Com patents.
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Resources Toolbox
1. Frequency The online newspaper Web site user spends more than twice as many hours online than the general user.
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Washington DC
Outraged by new details about Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to complicate Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid, activist investor Carl Icahn says he believes Yahoo's board will have to be fired to lure Microsoft back to the bargaining table.
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Resources Toolbox
Online video is a growing presence on newspapers sites – that much is clear. What’s less clear for newspaper companies is how to leverage this new medium to increase revenue.
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Search Blog
Newspaper Web sites attracted more than 66.4 million unique visitors on average (40.7 percent of all Internet users) in the first quarter of 2008, a record number that represents a 12.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America.
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my1voice Virtual PBX Phone Service Connects Workforce With Customers
Ottawa, Canada - June 3, 2008 - Protus, a provider of the Internet fax service MyFax™, today announced the introduction of its new virtual PBX phone service, my1voice™.
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Macs right for some small businesses, not others
As Apple's popularity in the PC market grows, many in business are debating the switch, but some in the industry caution that while Macs have gained a lot of interoperability, the move may not be smart for some. CNN Money writes that the switch to Mac can be beneficial to some, even offering cost reductions in overall system price and maintenance o...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Jul 2005 12:30 UTC
SuSE 9.3 is the most polished and easy to use release from SuSE. It goes a long way in dispelling the notion that Linux is not ready for the desktop. It is a comprehensive release with enhanced hardware detection and configuration and an exhaustive suite of available applications.
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IE8 beta 2 coming in August, Firefox 3 RC2 tomorrow
Microsoft today said that it will be rolling out the second beta of Internet Explorer later this summer and make the software available in 20 languages. Meanwhile, it appears that the Mozilla team has hit roadblocks, which prompted the developers to delay its next-gen browser. There will be at least one more release candidate before Firefox 3 final can be downloaded.
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Local firm recipient of Internship Award
Professional Computer Systems, Co. (PCS) of Denison is the recipient of one of 36 Student Internship Programs awarded to19 businesses by the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
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Google accused over privacy law
Search engine giant Google is urged to comply with California law and provide a homepage privacy policy link.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-03 22:40 EMC's first-quarter lobbying reached $730,000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Data storage vendor EMC Corp. spent $730,000 in the first quarter to lobby on Internet crime issues related to the banking industry and other issues, according to a disclosure report.
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Microsoft's Yahoo bid: timeline
Microsoft launches unsolicited bid for Yahoo Feb 1 2008: Tipping off Yahoo head Jerry Yang on the phone the night before, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer goes public with a $44.6bn takeover offer for Yahoo. The deal would be the biggest internet merger since Time Warner bought AOL for $112bn in 2000, but follows talks going back to late 2006 between the two firms. Yahoo had been ...
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Peter Gabriel hails The Filter as digital 'life jockey'
Musician and digital evangelist Peter Gabriel has put his weight behind a new filtering system for online content he said will eventually help act as a "life jockey" for the ocean of music, film, literature and entertainment on the web. The Filter, which launches fully today, initially asks users to set up a basic profile by rating different genres and artists in music and film, and uses ...
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New Qaeda release expected from No. 2 Zawahri
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri is expected to issue a new statement calling for an end to Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, U.S.-based Internet monitors said on Tuesday.
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Vodafone internet users left in the dark
Mobile internet users have been left feeling frustrated and out of pocket over the promise of fast web access on the move. Vodafone's heavily promoted "dongle" device has been beset by problems including reported slow download speeds and blocked websites. It has left at least one online user bewailing: "What is being done about this? I don't want to pay for this service if it doesn't work ...
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Yahoo takeover: board had early plans to reject Microsoft bid, papers reveal
Yahoo drew up a plan to reject a Microsoft takeover bid months before its $45bn ($22.9bn) offer, according to newly released court documents revealing the lengths the company went to in its attempts to avoid being swallowed up by the technology giant. The web firm had also previously rejected the idea of a Google tie-up on competition grounds, according to court documents made public in ...
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