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NewsFactor Network (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Amid all the maneuvering over the fate of Yahoo, Time Warner is again exploring whether it can persuade either Microsoft or Yahoo to buy its AOL unit. There have been on-again, off-again deal talks among the three companies all year. And in recent days, Time Warner has signaled a renewed interest in a possible transaction, according to executives at all three companies who have been briefed on the...
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political...
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NeoWin (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly. Though Yahoo's search business is the crown jewel Microsoft has been after, the quest to acquire it has degenerated into a string of taunts, threats, and mudslinging for which there seems...
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PC World (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
A deal to buy AOL may prove easier for Microsoft as it efforts to purchase Yahoo have soured.
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
A deal to buy AOL may prove easier for Microsoft as it efforts to purchase Yahoo have soured.
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Amid all the maneuvering over the fate of Yahoo, Time Warner is again exploring whether it can persuade either Microsoft or Yahoo to buy its AOL unit. There have been on-again, off-again deal talks among the three companies all year. And in recent days, Time Warner has signaled a renewed interest in a possible transaction, The [...]
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Microsoft is desperate to make some sort of deal and has almost no choice but to buy AOL from Time Warner, the WSJ tells us: "Microsoft Revs Up Talks With AOL" - The talks highlight Microsoft's limited options without Yahoo, which last week rejected a new proposal from Microsoft to buy Yahoo's Internet-search business. To remain competitive in online advertising, Microsoft needs to quickly expand...
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Decidedly (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Have I underestimated Steve Ballmer? In the past, we've discussed the strategy surrounding Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo: how this is the biggest change at Microsoft since Steve Ballmer became CEO and that other commentators are so critical of Yahoo despite that they continue to be profitable . Like many others, I wondered what was the motivation factor for Microsoft. Is the web really the right...
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TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Redmond OS maker and Yahoo stalker, Microsoft Corporation is preparing to buy a little Jerusalem-based company called Zoomix. The new MS purchase makes and sells software which automates the delivery of correct, complete, synchronized enterprise data, within the business workflow. Zoomix's solution uses guided self-learning technology to easily build a knowledge of how to parse, match, classify and...
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Go West (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Is it just me, or is the most interesting and amusing bit of the most recent Yahoo-Microsoft news that Yahoo (YHOO) remains willing to sell to Microsoft (MSFT) for $33 per share? A short review of the facts. Some time while Terry Semel still was CEO of Yahoo, Microsoft offered to buy the company in the neighborhood [...]
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft’s new proposal to buy Yahoo’s search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday. The proposal made late last week represents a formal alliance between Microsoft, whose takeover efforts Yahoo had rebuffed for months, and the billionaire [...]
