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BEA rejects US$6.66bn bid from Oracle
Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low. Read more »
Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra
Yahoo is buying e-mail software provider Zimbra for about $350 million, the companies announced on Monday. 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 »
Microsoft shareholders already own Yahoo
Yahoo is calling on Microsoft to bump up its buyout bid, but the trouble is a number of the Internet giant's largest investors own shares in both stocks. Read more »
Microsoft offer still undervalues company: Yahoo
Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's merger deadline, reiterating its rejection to the software giant's buyout bid as "substantially" undervaluing the company. 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 »
Sun to acquire MySQL for US$1bn
Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open-source database developer MySQL for US$1bn. Read more »
Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems
Oracle withdraws its $6.7 billion buyout bid for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refuses to entertain its $17 a share bid. Read more »
Facebook in $500m Twitter bid: report
Facebook recently made a US$500 million offer to buy micro-blogging site Twitter, according to a Wall St Journal website. Read more »
Yang's departure could open Microsoft door
Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week. Read more »
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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 »
Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople
Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »
WSDL for your B2B back-end application?
You may have an ideal prospect for a WSDL app. But you need to answer several questions before launching the project. Here's how to get started. Read more »
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Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »
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It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.