AFP - Yahoo agreed Monday to give corporate raider Carl Icahn and two of his allies board seats, ending his fight to oust the board of the Internet giant for its handling of a failed takeover bid from Microsoft.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint
activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its
board, defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate
deal with Microsoft Corp less likely.
AP - Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The additional support stems from the latest version of Kalido Universal Information Director, which makes it possible to get data from Kalido's data warehouse to Microsoft Office, PerformancePoint and SharePoint. -- read full article
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:06:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - A former Microsoft employee has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for a scam involving the company's domain names. -- read full article
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - For the fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft said sales increased 18% over the prior year to $15.8 billion. Net income rose 41% to $4.3 billion. -- read full article
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:12:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - In a rare slip for Google Inc,
Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp gained share as Google lost ground
in the Web search market in June, industry data released on
Friday shows.
AP - One of Yahoo Inc.'s largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Reuters - Technology stocks fell on Friday and
drove the Nasdaq down 1 percent on disappointing earnings from
Google and Microsoft, while Citigroup's
smaller-than-expected loss pushed up the Dow and helped keep
the broader market near the unchanged mark.
PC World - A former Microsoft employee has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for a scam involving the company's domain names. -- read full article
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:40:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Google Inc , IBM
and Microsoft Corp reported quarterly results on
Thursday, giving investors a mixed snapshot of the health of
the technology sector amid a slowing global economy.
USATODAY.com - Despite a sagging economy, tech giants Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM) on Thursday reported double-digit growth in quarterly revenue and profits. -- read full article
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:40:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - The Nasdaq and S&P 500 stock indexes
fell on Friday after disappointing results from Google Inc
and Microsoft Corp drove a technology
sell-off.
AP - Shares of Microsoft Corp. sank more than 5 percent on Friday, a day after the company missed Wall Street's earnings forecast by a penny, and issued softer-than-expected guidance for the current first quarter. -- read full article
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:46:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
