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SAP CEO: Microsoft should have bought Yahoo

If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice, he would be told to spend his money on Yahoo. Read more »

We will buy 20 companies a year: Ballmer

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense. Read more »

Microsoft walks away from $50bn Yahoo offer

Microsoft officially withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo on Saturday — but only after it threw an additional US$5 billion on the table. Read more »

Microsoft buys UK mapping service

Microsoft has announced that has scooped up Multimap, a United Kingdom-based mapping service. Read more »

Microsoft makes $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo

Microsoft went public on Friday with a US$44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. Read more »

Will NineMSN or Yahoo7 be Australia's biggest loser?

If Microsoft acquires Yahoo, the deal may leave the pair's joint venture partnerships with PBL Network and the Seven Network on shaky ground. Read more »

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks

Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Read more »

Will change of CEO hit Red Hat?

The man who led Linux seller Red Hat from a newly public but largely unproven open source company to a force to be reckoned with is giving his office to an executive largely unknown in the software industry. Read more »

Ballmer calls security a never-ending battle

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the task of trying to stay one step ahead of virus writers and hackers is a never-ending battle. Read more »

Ballmer: We need a $100 PC

What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday. Read more »

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The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history

While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss is one step toward what many consider inevitable: the creation of open source companies that rival the clout of entrenched software-providers. Read more »

Is it kill or cure for Oracle's database buy?

Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives. Read more »

IBM lights up mainframe's 40th birthday

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Read more »

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