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BusinessWeek
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Amid high demand for Firefox 3, Mozilla prepares its open-source software to take on Microsoft, Google, and a world of cell-phone confusion
When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record..
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BusinessWeek
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After a survey of corporate customers, one Wall Street analyst cuts his expectations for revenue and profit growth
Microsoft has irked consumers and corporate customers with the most recent version of its Windows operating system, which they complain r..
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BusinessWeek
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Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft
For more than a month, Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang has endured a withering attack by shareholder..
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BusinessWeek
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The latest talks clearly suggest Microsoft lacks a Plan B to compete with Google in search, while Yahoo is feeling the heat from Carl Icahn
When Microsoft announced May 3 that it was dropping its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo (BusinessWeek.com, 5/3/08),..
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BusinessWeek
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A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market
The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of computing is finally weakening—pried..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft had initially set a royalty rate of 3.87 percent of a licensee’s product revenues for patents and demanded that companies looking for communication information — which it said was highly secret — pay 2.98 percent of their products’ reven..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker’s rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview.
“We sent them a letter and said we think that’s a fair offer. There�..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo may be reluctant prey for Microsoft. But that doesn’t mean the former Internet wunderkind has a lot of choices.
Yahoo Monday formally rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer. But in many ways, Yahoo’s hands may be tied in escaping Microsof..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. would consider a business alliance with Google Inc. as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Go..
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BusinessWeek
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Can Microsoft's acquisition of a company that sells specialized search engines help it close the overall Web search gap with Google?
Ever lagging in the lucrative business of Internet search and related ads, Microsoft (MSFT) is dipping into its cash re..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google on Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in online searches.
“Google is not ahead of us,” he told reporters at a..
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Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp.'s plan to buy AQuantive Inc. for $6 billion increases the likelihood that the software maker will also buy Yahoo! Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Anthony Noto said today.
Yahoo would plug a ``strategic hole'' at Microsoft that is..
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Forbes
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Software maker Microsoft Corp. asked search engine operator Yahoo Inc. to re-enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth $50 billion, the New York Post reported on Friday.
Microsoft is feeling increasing pressure to compete with Go..
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ABC News
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Shares of Microsoft Corp. soared nearly 4 percent Friday, after the company posted a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit, boosted by sales of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007, and by upgrade coupons issued over the holidays.
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BusinessWeek
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With its $3.1 billion acquisition, the Internet giant secures entry into the promising business of display advertising and thwarts Microsoft in online search
Three billion dollars? On Apr. 13, Google announced that it would pay $3.1 billion for the adv..
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The Register
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Microsoft executive Tom Rubin will use a speech to the American Association of Publishers, which is suing Google, to slag off the search engine's attitude to copyright.
The comments might sound a little rich coming from a company which just last month..
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Reuters
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Microsoft Corp. is making a global push to sell targeted online advertisements using data gathered from users of its Hotmail email service, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday...
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BusinessWeek
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Shares have slipped well below Microsoft's buyout price, and that presents a great opportunity for investors
The Street has turned against Yahoo (YHOO) since Microsoft's May 4 announcement that it would walk away from its proposal to buy the Internet g..
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BBC News
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Yahoo's German-listed shares plunged 17% after software giant Microsoft dropped its three-month-old bid to buy the internet firm.
Analysts expect Yahoo's US shares to fall by a similar margin when Wall Street begins trading later.
The deal collapsed..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft’s server and tools division has often been a bright spot in Microsoft’s balance sheet, and Enderle said there is potential there for the company to gain even more market share in that field. Office also is hugely profitable, and Microsoft wo..
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