| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Why Facebook poses a threat to Google | Interview III with David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect
Facebook recently was valued at some $30 billion. Already, it has a far larger valuation than Google did when the search giant went public in 2004 and was valued at $27 bil... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 11/3/10 | LiveU raised $11M; Cloud Sherpas raised $1.6M; BringIt gets $1.5M; Andreessen Horowitz raised $650M
The VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $650 million for a fund. The fund will focus solely on computer science, and be blind to company ... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Facebook valued at over $30 billion | If Facebook were publicly traded today, it would be valued at over $30 billion
[Updated at 10:33 am, Nov. 1, to add Facebook IPO information.]
Facebook, if it were a publicly traded company, would be valued at over $30 billion, according to... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Sapple Sucks: An Apple-Sony Acquisition Would Be Jobs' Cyanide Pill | The rumor mill is buzzing about Apple (APPL) considering a Sony (SNE) acquisition. Juicy for headlines, but the two companies are about as incompatible as possible in design, culture and innovation. It would do serious damage to Apple and, ... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Bank of America shares down 4.4% in afternoon sell off | Shares of Bank of America (BAC) took a nose dive Tuesday afternoon, after the banking giant reported a $7.3 billion loss before the market opened and some investors of Countrywide mortgage-backed securities took steps to get the company to ... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Return of the deals? Seagate buyout talks heat up | Private equity firms TPG Capital and KKR are reportedly in talks to acquire hard-drive manufacturer Seagate, adding further credibility to rumors that cropped up yesterday that Seagate will be going private for the second time in a decade, ... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | EMC, Seagate -- Everyone Wants a Storage Company. Here's Why | Even without the news that Google (GOOG) is developing its own storage technology, the storage industry is turning topsy turvy. Seagate Technology (STX) has a buy-out offer from a private equity firms TPG and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. And th... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | An AOL-Acquired Yahoo Will Head Right to the Corporate Chop Shop | Rumors that someone -- maybe AOL (AOL) -- will acquire Yahoo (YHOO) sent share prices up, though probably not employee morale. It was only February 2008 that Microsoft (MSFT) was willing to pay nearly $45 billion, or $31 a share, for the co... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | AOL hatching a plan to buy Yahoo | Can they realistically pull it off?
Those “unnamed sources” are back at it again. The more I read the Wall Street Journal, the more I think, “man…I need some unnamed sources…” So what are these soureces saying to WSJ today? AOL, in partners... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Comcast Roundup: Will Keith Olbermann be silenced, home security and More | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.DEFINITE READS
An Award, Criticism a... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Skype appoints new CEO | Josh Silverman steps down and Tony Bates of Cisco becomes new Skype CEO
As Skype gears itself up to go public after its August SEC filing, it's taking inventory on who's in and who's out. On Monday the company appointed a new CEO, Tony Bate... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Google: A look back at 12-years of milestones | From an idea in '95 to a $27 billion IPO, to a tech juggernaut worth $147 billion in 2010
Google is growing up and entering its awkward “tween” years. Monday marked the company’s 12th birthday, the time in a company’s life when it starts to... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 9/22/10 | HP buys Fortify, Rocket Fuel raises $10M, OtherInbox raises $1.5M, Facebook's new social feed
Rocket Fuel gets $10 million from Nokia. The company is an ad optimizer. The service hopes to give data in the short term, to allow for faster mar... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | NYTimes working on personalized news site | News.me is expected to launch later this year
Betaworks, which has served up such tasty techno morsels as Bit.ly, a URL shortening service, and SocialFlow, a microblogging service for businesses, is working with The New York Times to cook u... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Groupon Is Spending A Ton On Google AdSense | Redeem now
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason
When navigating the Internet, the most consistent ad units published across the web are powered by Adsense. And while these units used to be filled with text links, Google started letting advertisers use ... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | What you need to know - Thursday 9/8/2010 | Kno raises $46 million, Amazon buys Amie Street, Aircell raises $176M, Google announcement coming?
It's a new day, and that means a new chance to begin your day well informed. Let's take a look at what's been going on in the last 24 hours.
... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | IVP raises $750M for late-stage fund | Deal flow for later-stage financing is the strongest it's ever been, says IVP
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), one of the premier later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms, announced this week the closing of Institutional Ven... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Maven teams up with Business Connect China to make VCs even smarter | Maven Research, a San Francisco-based consulting firm, just announced an alliance with Chinese consulting provider Business Connect China (BCC). The deal gives Maven’s clients access to more than 10,000 industry experts in China.
Unlike tra... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Tribune Co. Hopes Anchorless TV Newscast Will Be Just Like Surfing the Web | From the department of You Just Don’t Get It, Do You: Tribune Co. is planning to blow the traditional TV newscast apart in an attempt to imitate the experience of Web browsing on TV. The new format presents a rapid series of pre-taped stori... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Profitably raises funding to cull data for small businesses | New York startup Profitably recently closed a $300,000 round of funding with a group of New York investors. The company offers an online software application that analyzes data from Quickbooks, a small business accounting package sold by In... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | In Russia, startups need angels, not bodyguards — and now they may get them | Several proven Russian entrepreneurs have formed what looks to be the first promising seed-stage venture capital firm in Russia, called Runa Capital.
This is a significant development for the country, even if the sums involved are relativel... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | Rise of the Event-Based Social Networks | With interest in location-based social networks (LBSN) hitting an all-time high with Foursquare’s recent funding announcement valuing the company at $115 million, a new type of social networking has emerged that borrows some of the mechanic... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | “I Got a Guy” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A friend of mine likes to make fun of me because I often say: “I got a guy.” You want to find the healthcare plan to fit your needs? I got a guy. Need your apartment cleaned? ... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | NTP Keeps On Making The Case For Patent Reform As It Sues More Companies | NTP, a patent holding firm that is really just a bunch of lawyers with incredibly broad and questionable patents, is at it again. As you probably know, NTP was locked in a long and contentious patent fight with RIM over NTP’s claimed patent... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | New report pegs Facebook valuation at $12 billion | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A week after a report by Facebook investor Elevat... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | New report pegs Facebook valuation at $12 billion | A week after a report by Facebook investor Elevation Partners pegged the social network’s value at $23 billion, a report by pre-IPO analysts Next Up Research has reached only half that amount. Even so, the report says a lot for Facebook’s f... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Links: Local currency movement, Amish entrepreneurs and more | DEFINITE READS
Freelancer John Steele writes for Keystone Edge on the growing local currency movement, in which three suburban communities are encouraging the use of a town-specific form of money to develop local purchases.
Keystone Edge al... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Why Is Amazon Buying Woot? The Answer May Surprise You | Amazon (AMZN) has agreed to buy Woot, the clearance site that sells one item per day. But Amazon already has a similar last-chance feature on its own site, and it nearly always stocks the same items that Woot (albeit at a slightly higher pr... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Google's Plans to TiVo YouTube Ads May Be Sign of Paid Subscriptions | Google (GOOG) made a smart move when it bought YouTube. After five years of heavy losses, the site might break even this year, even without major television and movie programming. So why would Google plan to let consumers skip embedded vide... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/02/10 | Two mobile geo-location startups, Foursquare and Geodelic, raise big money
Last week's roundup was clearly dominated by one sector growing by leaps and bounds: social gaming. The news on that front has not slowed down, as evidenced by Disne... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Startups, IPOs, and Exits (or Not) | The electric car startup Tesla Motors made history this morning: the first IPO for an American car company since Ford in the 1950s.
Eyes are on the company for a number of reasons: questions about the profitability of the green tech industr... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Facebook’s new global policy VP brings White House, online payments experience | Facebook has hired away a White House staffer to be the fifth full-time member of its Washington D.C.-based office. Marne Levine, who is the chief of staff at the White House National Economic Council, is joining the social network as its v... |
| May 31, 2010 | US Fund To Invest $250 Million In Skolkovo, The "Russian Silicon Valley" | Siguler Guff & Company, a US-based private equity firm with over $8.5 billion of assets under management, is investing $250 million in a high-tech hub outside Moscow that is often referred to as Russia’s ‘answer to Silicon Valley’, acco... |
| May 25, 2010 | Amanda Palmer And OK Go Get Together To Celebrate Being Dropped From Their Record Labels | Recently, we’ve noted some similarities between Amanda Palmer and the band OK Go, in that both had been signed to major record label deals, both had built up an amazing (and amazingly loyal) group of fans through various means (different fo... |
| May 25, 2010 | Morning Read: The end of health insurance M&A? | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| May 24, 2010 | Tech Tidbits: Gist Vs. Smartsheet in Google Apps, Display Week Demos, and the Carried Interest Debate | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s a good start to what promises to be a busy week in Seattle-area tech news. To get caught up, here’s a quick look at what’s been going on around town.
—Display Week, the S... |
| May 21, 2010 | FTC Clears Google’s Acquisition of AdMob | The Federal Trade Commission just cleared Google’s acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob. According to the FTC, the acquisition raised “serious antitrust issues,” but these were ultimately overshadowed by Apple’s move to start its... |
| May 11, 2010 | The Modern Stock Market: Man vs Machine Means We All Lose | The finger pointing that's followed last Thursday's stock market panic seems borrowed from a science fiction film. Backers of the high speed computers that have come to dominate day trading blamed the human beings who called a temporary hal... |
| May 11, 2010 | Can a “Head of Social” help Google fend off Facebook? | When Google was fresh off its $27 billion initial public offering almost six years ago, Facebook was but a college social network fueled by hormones and the occasional lascivious profile photo. It had just around 200,000 members and $500,00... |
| May 11, 2010 | Can a “Head of Social” help Google fend off Facebook? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Google was fresh off its $27 billion initial... |
| May 7, 2010 | Stock Market's Robo-Panic Is Sign of Things to Come | The Dow's dizzying dive yesterday -- and equally sudden recovery -- is now widely considered to have been the result of a robo-panic, a lightspeed selloff triggered by an single error that sent computerized trading machines haywire. The SEC... |
| Apr 29, 2010 | HP's Palm Deal Will Give Its Tablet Computer More Fighting Power | Now that HP has scooped up Palm for $1.2 billion, analysts are discussing how HP will reset Palm's troubled past. However, Palm also gives HP gets a new opportunity to hurt Apple -- namely in the tablet arena. If applied on a bigger scale, ... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | AOL Sells ICQ for $187.5 Million | Once upon a time, ICQ was synonymous with instant messaging. While ICQ doesn’t have this kind of clout anymore, it is still very popular in Russia and other countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet. AOL bought ICQ in 1998 for $287 million, ... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | EBay's Rebound Drags While Craigslist Rakes In Dirty Money | With good first quarter results and stellar performance of its PayPal unit, the eBay (EBAY) of 2010 is a far cry from the foundering mess it was a year ago, when the company was hemorrhaging buyers and suffering a free-fall in its stock pri... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Hedge fund buys into Invacare | By Mary Vanac
ELYRIA, Ohio — Whitebox Advisors LLC, the Minneapolis hedge fund family headed by Andrew Redleaf, acquired 1.8 million shares, or 5.4 percent, of home healthcare equipment maker Invacare Corp. (NYSE:IVC), according to a regula... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Foursquare Gets Zagat, But Needs More To Stop Yelp | The mobile check-in app Foursquare will now recognize Zagat-rated restaurants in a new deal - - but I suspect it won't be enough to fend off its biggest rival, Yelp.
Foursquare allows users to check-in at different urban locations so friend... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Minneapolis hedge fund firm Whitebox Advisors buys 5.4 percent of Invacare’s shares | ELYRIA, Ohio — Whitebox Advisors LLC, the Minneapolis hedge fund family headed by Andrew Redleaf, has acquired 1.8 million shares, or 5.4 percent, of Invacare Corp., the maker of home health care equipment and products, according to a re... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Foursquare’s on a roll as traffic surges 50 percent in January | Location-based game Foursquare has found its groove, as U.S. visits to the site jumped 50 percent in January, according to Hitwise.
Overall, traffic is up 200 percent since November. The stats confirm Foursquare’s own public comments. The c... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Amazon Said to Buy Touchscreen Startup: Implications for the Kindle and E Ink Display | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Amazon has acquired Touchco, a touchscreen technology company based in New York, according to a report in the New York Times, which cites an anonymous source wit... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Justice Department May Unwind Diebold E-voting Sale To ES&S | After getting hammered publicly for having e-voting machines that didn’t work well and had serious security problems, Diebold tried sell off its e-voting division for years with no luck. It then tried to change its name to Premier, hoping p... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Private Equity Firm That Bought EMI Sues Citigroup For Misleading It Into Deal | You had to be pretty clueless in 2007 not to recognize that the major record labels were seriously struggling. Still, we thought that the decision by private equity firm Terra Firma to buy EMI in 2007 might actually be an opportunity for a ... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | EU Hearing Timing on Oracle-Sun May Show Deal | According to a Reuters report, the European Union has set a December 10th hearing date for Oracle to make its argument for acquiring Sun. And, if true, this comes after the EU set a late January review date. The idea seems insane, on the fa... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | EU and Oracle Should Just Say We Want Sun Dead | Following the European Union's review of the proposed Oracle-Sun deal, and Oracle's response, makes you wonder whether continental regulators and Larry Ellison have an unquenchable taste for irony or are really interested in seeing Sun dead... |
| Oct 19, 2009 | Google Claims New Enterprise Wins For Apps | Google is casting a shadow over Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 this week with news of more enterprise wins for its online Google Apps suite of collaboration and email services.
The newest win, British pest control company Rentokil, is the ... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Roundup: DOJ approves Oracle-Sun deal, Gamestop falls short, Twitter’s charming memory loss | Here’s the latest action:
The Department of Justice cleared Oracle’s purchase of Sun — Larry Ellison’s $7.4 billion acquisition of the Valley’s rockstar server maker and owner of the rights to Java software, is a transaction on the scale of... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | EMC De-Dupes NetApp | Joe Tucci, the CEO of data storage vendor EMC, isn't your typical Silicon Valley-Cambridge technology executive, less Steve Jobs than swift jabs and uppercuts. So I wouldn't be surprised if he dropped a couple of f-bombs when NetApp, number... |
| May 26, 2009 | Magazines Giving Readers A Real Reason To Buy | While most of the coverage of the old school paper media industry struggling to update their business models has focused on newspapers, there are lots of questions around the magazine industry as well. Magazines are losing ad revenue and tr... |
| May 20, 2009 | Sony Ericsson needs $135 million | Sony Ericsson will need a hot cash injection of 100 million euro ($135 million) to survive after March 2010. Sony and Ericsson will both be raising cash in order to keep this dog afloat for a while longer and the company is cutting “one in ... |
| May 1, 2009 | A Valleywag Out. Owen Thomas Leaving Gawker. | Owen Thomas, who has run the Silicon Valley gossip rag Valleywag for the past couple years, is leaving Gawker, the site’s parent company, we’ve learned. This move is a bad blow for the site which significantly cut its workforce a few months... |
| Apr 16, 2009 | eBay Opens Bidding On Itself | First Skype, then StumbleUpon. What's next -- PayPal? One thing is certain: a year from now, eBay will look like a very different company.
It's unclear whether eBay will actually go through with its plan to launch an IPO for Internet teleph... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | Fed Orders Banks Mum on Stress Tests: Report | The U.S. Federal Reserve has told Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Citigroup Inc. (C) and other major banks not to talk about the results — or even the process — tied to ongoing “stress tests” at U.S. banks, Bloomberg News reported Friday mor... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Bonuses | It's not you, it's them that are wrong
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
And bring on the backlash!
Arctic Monkeys – Who The F***k Are The Arctic Monkeys
There was a piece in the New York Times recently (yes I do occasionally still read ne... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Google keeps itself attractive to employees | Search engine reprices 7.64 million stock options
Even though these tough times make it difficult for anyone to leave their job, a stock option that's well out of the money will surely get some people considering other opportunities.
After ... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Can satellite radio be saved? | Liberty Media is loaning Sirius XM about $530 million to keep the combined satellite radio service company afloat. The satellite radio company has millions of subscribers for its services, which feature exclusives such as shock jock Howard ... |
| Feb 14, 2009 | Thoughts on “Another View: V.C. Investing Not Dead, Just Different” | Every once in a while, you read something and you agree with what the author is saying. As you read, you can hear the resounding “yes” that accompanies the comprehension of the text. What doesn’t happen as often is the experience of where y... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | Pass the sugar, please | If you do nothing else today, I recommend taking a look at this, via the NYT’s DealBook. It’s becoming pretty clear that GMAC got a sweet deal in taking money from the government, despite efforts from lawmakers and regulators to suggest tha... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | Update: IndyMac Sale Nears; Potential Suitors Emerge | (Update 1: reflects Dec. 26th report) IndyMac Federal Bank, seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in mid-July, will be sold before the end of this year, according to multiple reports Monday citing unnamed sources. The news follows a... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Roundup: RIM sales holding up, Panasonic buys Sanyo, TV sales slowing | Here’s the latest action
RIM offers good guidance: Research in Motion said the third quarter was weak but the fourth quarter is turning out better than expected thanks to sales of new BlackBerry models such as the Storm.
Twitpay lets you se... |
| Dec 11, 2008 | The “capital calls” crisis: separating fact from fiction | Recently, reports started circulating that Ambric, a chip company that enables high-performance computing, has shuttered after failing to raise money from its investors.
Ambric’s fate was sealed by a “capital calls” problem, according to a ... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Roundup: Yahoo Mail becomes developer platform, Brickhouse may shut down, capital calls go unpaid and more | Here’s the latest action:
Yahoo may turn email into developer platform: GigaOm reports that the beleaguered company may open up its Yahoo Mail platform so that developers can build apps that run on top of it, much like developers do for Fac... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Mark Cuban versus SEC: Insider trading or insider politics | Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has fired a salvo back at the Securities and Exchange Commission today, after it charged him with insider trading yesterday. Cuban broke his legal obligation to keep financial information confidential reg... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Mark Cuban Can't Help Himself, He's Going To Fight The SEC In Public | When the SEC charges someone with insider trading or any other crime, most lawyers will advise them that the best course of action is usually to keep their mouth shut and fight it in court. But some people just can’t help themselves. Martha... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Mark Cuban faces insider trading complaint, fires back | With all of the layoffs hitting the tech industry, everyone’s in need of a diversion — you know, a news story that is sure to stretch out into months of messy, fascinating, fully public detail. That story may have arrived this morning: Mark... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading of Search Engine Mamma.com | Four years ago, an eternity in internet time, Dallas Mavericks owner and controversial web thought leader Mark Cuban allegedly used inside information to dump all his stock in meta search engine Mamma.com hours before the company announced ... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading | Over the years, Mark Cuban has been quite open on his blog concerning various stock strategies that he has — which have often gone against the grain. He’s not a big fan of just buying a small amount of a company’s outstanding stock and hold... |
| Sep 14, 2008 | AIG on the Brink, Too | Pending doom for Lehman Brothers Holdings Corp. (LEH) garnered plenty of headlines Sunday and heading into Monday, but it’s another possible failure that could send larger waves through financial markets: The American International Group (A... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Mattel Apparently Learned Nothing From Hasbro's Scrabulous Disaster | As you recall, Hasbro’s decisions on how to deal with upstart Scrabulous backfired badly. The company first threatened Scrabulous, then tried to do a deal with them. When that failed it (finally!) built its own Facebook Scrabble and then su... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Yahoo's Advisory Fees: Maybe Yahoo Should Have Been the Buyer | Ironically, for all the Yahoo trash talk you hear, the company's revenue, profits, and shareholder equity are all on a six month rise compared to last year. So why are people so down on it? Might it have made more sense for Yahoo to buy Mic... |
| Jul 31, 2008 | Google to start new venture capital division — likely for telecom | Reports in years past have suggested that Google, like Intel, Motorola and other large tech companies, might open an internal venture capital fund to invest in startups. The idea has never come to fruition, but a brief in this morning’s Wal... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | One ex-banker’s journey is worth noting | Last week, The NYT’s DealBook blog highlighted a guy that we here at HW can’t help but root for: his name? Joshua Persky, a former i-banker for Houlihan Lokey — the New York-based investment bank was named “Firm of the Year” last month by t... |
| May 20, 2008 | CBS President Leslie Moonves Drops By CNET HQ | CBS President & CEO Leslie Moonves paid a visit to CNET headquarters in San Francisco today, we’re hearing.
He came alone. No Quincy Smith, No Michael Marquez (the guys who did the deal). No entourage of any kind. The goal? Address the ... |
| May 14, 2008 | Icahn Buys Yahoo Shares, Spurring Proxy War Rumors | News Icahn Buys Yahoo Shares, Spurring Proxy War Rumors By Kurt MackieMay 14, 2008 The Wall Street Journal reported today that investor Carl Icahn purchased about 50 million shares of Yahoo (3.5 percent of total shares) following Microsoft'... |
| May 6, 2008 | Arrington and Ross Sorkin Talk About Yahoo On Charlie Rose | http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=87760211704934203:144000:725000&hl=en
Last night, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and our own Michael Arrington appeared on the Charlie Rose Show to talk about —what else?—Yahoo, M... |
| May 5, 2008 | More Layoffs Ahead for Morgan Stanley, Lehman: Report | Morgan Stanley (MS) execs are planning another round of layoffs at the Wall Street firm, this time hitting 1,500 employees, according to a report Monday by CNBC. Citing senior sources inside the company, CNBC said that the cuts will span al... |
| May 3, 2008 | Yahoo, Microsoft Still Keeping the Media Guessing | Have you ever felt used? Betrayed? Used as a pawn in a silly negotiation game? If you're in the media your answer in the last few days is a decided yes.
The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft are actually talking merger no... |
| May 2, 2008 | Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Actively Negotiating Merger Deal | News Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Actively Negotiating Merger Deal By Ed ScannellMay 02, 2008 Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotia... |
| May 2, 2008 | End credits ready to roll. Microsoft and Yahoo talking today, deal soon? | People enjoy epic films. The action, the suspense, the pageantry — it’s larger-than-life and entertaining. Most people would also agree that they tend to go on for far too long. That has been the general consensus about the tech world’s lat... |
| May 2, 2008 | Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Actively Negotiating Merger Deal | News Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Actively Negotiating Merger Deal By Ed ScannellMay 02, 2008 Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotia... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Quattrone signs Google, perfects origination 2.0 | Frank Quattrone - the onetime, high-flying Wall Street banker who spent years in legal limbo - is now advising Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as the Internet giant maps out its gameplan in the increasingly complex Microsoft takeoever battle of Ya... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Roundup: Motorola splits up, cable giants back WiMax venture, and more | Here’s the latest action (updated):
Struggling cell phone manufacturer Motorola announced it would split itself into two different companies. Under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, the company will divide itself into a cell phone... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | News Corp.-Yahoo Discussion Go On. And On. | News Corp. has essentially planted four or five deal guys at Yahoo HQ, working directly with Yahoo business development to try to find a deal to combine MySpace and Yahoo that both sides can swallow. The News Corp. team is led by Jack Kenne... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Microsoft May Try To Replace Yahoo Board | News Microsoft May Try To Replace Yahoo Board
Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward a hostile acquisition of Yahoo. By Becky NagelFebruary 20, 2008 Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward ... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Microsoft May Try To Replace Yahoo Board | News Microsoft May Try To Replace Yahoo Board
Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward a hostile acquisition of Yahoo. By Becky NagelFebruary 20, 2008 Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward ... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Microsoft-Yahoo Battle Getting Expensive. Should Microsoft Give Up? | Ever since Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s $31 a share offer to buy the company, the two sides have been gearing up for a prolonged fight over Yahoo’s fate. Microsoft is preparing to try to unseat Yahoo’s board members in a proxy battle that cou... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Microsoft gets more hostile towards Yahoo, seeks to replace board | Microsoft is preparing to raise the hostility in its bid to takeover Yahoo according to the New York Times’ DealBook. The next move is to authorize a proxy fight this week which then enables Microsoft to nominate its own board of directors ... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Report: Microsoft prepping proxy fight for Yahoo bid | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion bid. The software giant is reportedly preparing for ... |
| Feb 15, 2008 | Open Thread: How Would You Fix Yahoo!? | Easily the biggest tech story of the past two weeks has been Microsoft’s unsolicited $44 billion takeover bid for Yahoo! It’s not just the enormous amount of money that has brought it so much attention (though it would rank among the bigges... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | Citigroup to Streamline Mortgage Ops; Will Consolidate Primary, Secondary Market Activities | An internal memo leaked to various press outlets on Tuesday afternoon finds that Citigroup, battered and bruised from the mortgage mess, will consolidate its mortgage operations under one roof. The streamlining effort will bring origination... |
| Jan 4, 2008 | WGA Bashes Leno, Lehman For CNET? LOV, NAPS | Redeem now
The WGA's divide-and-conquer strategy failed, so now it has branded Jay Leno a scab for jotting down monologue. Will the absurdity ever end? Only when the splintering WGA finally admits it has lost and throws in the towel.
Napste... |