Reuters - Carl Icahn on Friday told Yahoo Inc
that it should offer to sell the company to Microsoft
Corp for $34.375 per share, or about $48.7 billion, as
the financier fired another volley in an acrimonious war of
words.
AFP - In the latest tit-for-tat over Yahoo, billionaire Carl Icahn renewed accusations Friday that the Internet giant misled shareholders and suggested a joint search deal with Google if Yahoo cannot be sold to Microsoft.
PC World - Carl Icahn increased his pressure on Yahoo, demanding that the company put itself up for sale for a little more than US$34 a... -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:40:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Hoping to negotiate a compromise, activist investor Carl Icahn urged Yahoo Inc. to declare it's willing to sell for $49.5 billion about $2 billion above Microsoft Corp.'s last offer for the Internet pioneer.
PC World - As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the... -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:20:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Yahoo fired back at billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the corporate raider "misrepresents and manipulates" the facts in a dispute over a failed merger deal with Microsoft.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The head of the world's largest software maker says he will retire in nine or 10 years when his last kid goes away to college. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:06:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Companies like MySpace and Tyco are using elements of the developer studio's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime to manage business processes and intranet services. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:42:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The heterogeneous SOA software for Visual Studio will have tools called Architecture Explorer and Architecture Layer Diagram for visualizing application logic in current code. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Dissident investor Carl Icahn escalated his attacks on Yahoo Inc.'s beleaguered board Wednesday in an acerbic letter demanding the directors scrap an employee severance plan that drove up the potential costs of a Microsoft Corp. takeover.
InfoWorld - With multi-core processors becoming a preferred method for building more powerful computers, Microsoft anticipates that a key trend for the future of application development will be accommodating parallel systems. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:44:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft