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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 swallows Danger to make phones fun
Microsoft has wrapped up its acquisition of smartphone maker Danger, setting the stage for a boost to its consumer mobile business. Read more »
Microsoft makes Yahoo a new offer
Microsoft announced on Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with the company but would not involve the acquisition of all of its assets. Read more »
Microsoft moves on after Yahoo break-up
In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone. Read more »
How do you get bought out by Google?
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions. 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 »
Microsoft and News Corp to bid for Yahoo
A month after Rupert Murdoch said News Corp is too small to compete for Yahoo, the media giant is teaming up with Microsoft in a joint take over bid for Yahoo, which would see MySpace brought into the mix. Read more »
Google a rock in face of Yahoo deal frenzy
As Microsoft, AOL, News Corp dance to the smell of Yahoo's blood, Google's competitive threat has remained constant and if anything, looks stronger and more stable an option than before. Read more »
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 »
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 »
Features (18)
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 »
Ballmer: From the frying pan to the firing line
In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought — a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
Google vs. Microsoft
At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Nokia's big plans on the Qt
With the acquisition of Trolltech, Nokia has made its largest bet yet on changing the course of the industry. Read more »
Taking developers into the interface
In the second half of our interview with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, we discuss JavaFX phones, Sun's view of Google and Adobe, Swing's appearance and just how much of a bubble the industry is in. 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 »
Case Study: Powerlan and Application Lifecycle Management
For a company that makes software for a living, having suitable application lifecycle management tools is essential to ensuring a quality outcome for clients. 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 »
Blog (5)
Flickr fans band together to fend off Microsoft
-- This is what happens when Microsoft tries to take over not just a company but also a community: a number of Flickr users have launched a group opposing the attempted acquisition. Read more »
How soon is Semantic?
-- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »
Service Pack or Market Attack?
-- I will give it to Microsoft. When they want to capture a particular market, they go hard or not at all. And with SQL Server 2005, they have their sights set firmly on the Business Intelligence market. And their strategy makes sense—they are moving to become the "one stop shop" for database servers, data management tools, reporting and analysis, eliminating the need to spend more money on third-party tools. Read more »
Warning: ads to get more annoying
-- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »
While the big guys scrap at the big end, who's creating the little guy's computer heaven?
-- Having sampled Google’s new calendar, I, for one, can’t wait until full synchronisation between it and Outlook’s calendar is full and fluent, so I can dispose of another chain to my desk. Read more »
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Share a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »
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Android devs less than gruntled
Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »
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As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
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Club Builder: Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
