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Microsoft (MSFT) Does Not Plan To Buy Anything
Now that Microsoft (MSFT) has lost its bid to buy Yahoo! (YHOO), all of the acquisition managing directors on Wall St. are hoping to get a chance to help Redmond use that…
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Reorganizing Yahoo! (YHOO) To Death
Most of the financial papers have stories about a big management reorganization at Yahoo!. A number of the top people are already hitting the doors like patrons fleeing a burning theater. According…
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Media Digest 6/20/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, the fuel price increase in China may bolster consumption.Reuters writes that the Fed’s policy on inflation is starting to hurt the housing market.Reuters writes that the Bank of America…
12:48pm ET
Technology
Google Keeps Drumming Yahoo! (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, TWX, IACI)
Nielsen Online has a report out for MAY 2008 data on the top U.S. SEARCH PROVIDERS. As a reminder, this is "US SEARCH" rather than global search. But it shows that Google…
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Media Digest 6/18/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Staple (SPLS) has received EU approval for a takeover of Corporate Express.Reuters writes that DreamWorks is in conversations with India’s Reliance. The deal would allow top management at the…
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Apple (AAPL) Financial News Flash 10028 (GOOG)(MSFT)
Apple (AAPL) has agreed to license "visual voicemail" technology from Klausner Technology.The introduction of the new Apple iPhone is unlikely to hurt profits at Research-In-Motion (RIMM), according to Alley Insider. As a…
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Telecom & Wireless
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) 600 Million Mobile Customers (GOOG)(MSFT)(BIDU)
After some deals in Asia overnight, Yahoo! now claims that its search feature is on 600 million phones. According to Reuters, "the mobile advertising market is expected to rise to $16.2 billion…
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Gives Up A Mint By Rejecting Microsoft’s (MSFT) Second Offer
Microsoft (MSFT) told its employees that it offered Yahoo! (YHOO) $8 billion in cash for 16% of the company and $1 billion to buy its search operations. According to Reuters, "The proposal…
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Microsoft (MSFT) Becomes The Victim, Opens “Save The Whales” Fund
Now that Microsoft (MSFT) can’t have Yahoo! (YHOO), it does not want anyone else to have the portal. Yahoo! has gone to search rival Google (GOOG) to sell some of its advertising…
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Jerry Yang And August Busch IV: Founder’s Day (YHOO)(BUD)
Two thousand years from now, when archaeologists dig up the bones of present-day CEOs, they will find that those who were in any way related to their company’s founders had a mutated…
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Media
Media Digest 6/13/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Pfizer (PFE) may make a counter-bid for Ranbaxy Laboratories, the generic drug-maker.Reuters reports that deal talks between Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are dead. Yahoo! will do an advertising…
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Media Digest 6/13/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Pfizer (PFE) may make a counter-bid for Ranbaxy Laboratories, the generic drug-maker.Reuters reports that deal talks between Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are dead. Yahoo! will do an advertising…
1:40pm ET
Technology
Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Ties Getting More Complicated (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
The WSJ has reported that that long-standing rumor of a search advertising deal between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is close to being consummated. Yahoohas concluded talks with Microsoft…
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Yahoo!’s New Icahn Battleship: U.S.S. Defiant (YHOO, MSFT)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has filed its own proxy materials for its August 1 shareholder meeting, and it is essentially asking shareholders to follow it 100% with no concessions to activist and raider…
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Useless News Of The Day: Ballmer And Gates Fought Eight Years Ago (MSFT)
The top story at WSJ.com today is that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, heads of Microsoft (MSFT), had a series of fights over control of the company. That was eight years ago.…
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