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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 »

IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion

IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction. 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 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 »

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 »

BEA to take on Asia thanks to Oracle

Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts. Read more »

Oracle to acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player. Read more »

AU$315m Mincom buyout on the cards

Mincom may soon have a new owner, with private equity fund Francisco Partners looking to buy the Queensland-based software development and services outfit for AU$315 million in cash. Read more »

Oracle's BEA takeover attempt sparks war of words

Oracle and BEA Systems have traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's bid for the company. Read more »

No guarantees on jobs or products: Adobe AU

Adobe Australia has flagged retrenchments and refused to rule out product consolidation after the company's US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia is concluded later this year. 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 »

Pricing your intellectual property

How can you calculate the worth of creativity and invention, as in the case of intellectual property (IP)? 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 »

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 »

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 »

Top 14 development integration trends for 2004

Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »

Is this the Active Directory that you've been waiting for?

Columnist Tim Landgraves explains why enhanced management tools and a more flexible deployment make the .NET Server worthy of tech leaders' consideration. Read more »

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