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Microsoft + Yahoo: Still Not Sexy to Job Applicants?

Combo may not aid companies' recruiting image

(Newser) - Among the many uncertainties about a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage is whether the combined company would gain any sex appeal in the Silicon Valley recruiting market, reports the New York Times. If both are washed up compared to job fair belles like Google and Facebook, would joining help them prevail in the...

Google to Microsoft: Not So Fast
Google to Microsoft:
Not So Fast
Feb 3, 2008 9:00 PM CST

Google to Microsoft: Not So Fast

Web giant steps in, offers to help Yahoo rebuff rival's advances

(Newser) - Google is offering to help Yahoo thwart Microsoft’s attempts at a hostile takeover, the Wall Street Journal reports. After Microsoft announced its $44.6-billion bid, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo’s Jerry Yang on Friday to bolster talk of an ad search alliance, support Yahoo’s efforts...

Microsoft and Yahoo May Not Be Enough to Fell Google

Is bigger better, or just bigger problems?

(Newser) - A Microsoft/Yahoo combination would pose a greater challenge to Google, but it's not at all clear the search engine behemoth would be greatly affected, NPR reports. Google owns about 60% of the search market—three times that of Microsoft and Yahoo combined. And, perhaps more to the point, it is...

Google for Barack, Microsoft for Hillary

Obama leads Silicon Valley donations; Seattle giant's workers skew toward Clinton

(Newser) - Barack Obama leads presidential hopefuls in Silicon Valley donations, but Hillary is tops among Microsoft employees, Reuters reports. Residents of the valley that Google, Yahoo, and Apple call home are interested in change, one analyst said: "It is absolutely the case that Obama is seen as different, and therefore...

Bid Kicks Off Clash of the Internet Titans

Proposed Microsoft/Yahoo! merger signals showdown with Google

(Newser) - Analysts agree that Microsoft's bold $44.6-billion bid for Yahoo marks the start of a big push by Microsoft to challenge Google's Web dominance. The move is a dramatic change in tactics for Microsoft, which likes to build new businesses on its own, writes Steve Lohr in a New York ...

Explorer Hurt By Scorn for Web Standards

Uncompliant legacy code becoming an albatross over time

(Newser) - Microsoft is caught in a web-prison of their own design, the Guardian reports. In 2001, IE6’s flawed but ubiquitous programming forced web developers to make two versions of their sites: one that worked with IE6’s quirks, and another that complied with web standards. Pages identified the user’s...

Stocks Climb on Microsoft News
Stocks Climb on Microsoft News
MARKETS
Feb 1, 2008 3:29 PM CST

Stocks Climb on Microsoft News

Dismal labor report can't keep Dow down

(Newser) - Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo outweighed a dismal jobs report today as the Dow ended up 92.83 at 12,743.19 after a seesaw session. Hopes for a new M&A wave bumped up against fears of broad economic slowdown. “This is a trader’s market, because...

Microsoft-Yahoo Draws Huzzahs From Analysts
Microsoft-Yahoo Draws Huzzahs From Analysts
OPINION
Feb 1, 2008 2:46 PM CST

Microsoft-Yahoo Draws Huzzahs From Analysts

Some see bid turning hostile if Yang balks at Ballmer offer

(Newser) - First reaction to Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo for $44 billion has been generally positive, especially among Wall Street analysts. Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget, an ex-analyst, quotes several who predict regulators and shareholders will have no problems with the deal. Meanwhile, New York Times blogger Steven M. Davidoff says...

Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances

CEO's chattiness at staff meeting leaked

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg got talkative with the Facebook staff yesterday. The boy CEO shared intimate details of the privately-owned company’s finances to an all-staff meeting with an open phone-in line—“It was really unbelievable,” marveled one. The numbers indicated a fall from break-even grace for the company in...

Microsoft Makes $44.6B Bid to Buy Yahoo

Merger would create stronger competitor to Google for online search, advertising

(Newser) - Microsoft has made a $44.6-billion offer  to buy struggling  search engine giant Yahoo. The  merger would help both companies compete against rival Google in the hotly contested on-line advertising market. The $31-a-share offer is a 62% premium on Yahoo's share price as of last night. Earlier this week Yahoo...

Selloff Drives Dow Down 171
Selloff Drives Dow Down 171
MARKETS
Jan 25, 2008 4:30 PM CST

Selloff Drives Dow Down 171

Two-day rally snaps on renewed jitters over mortgage crisis

(Newser) - A 2-day rally sputtered today as the Dow fell 171.44 to 12,207.17 on new jitters about a touchy market. Even strong quarterly reports from Microsoft, Caterpillar, and Honeywell couldn’t keep investors buying this morning; said one economist, “The market is still in a very fragile...

Gates Optimism Buoys Mood in Davos
Gates Optimism Buoys Mood
in Davos
Jan 25, 2008 7:59 AM CST

Gates Optimism Buoys Mood in Davos

After glum start, 'creative capitalism' speech rallies leaders

(Newser) - An upbeat, optimistic Bill Gates livened up the dour World Economic Forum in Davos with a speech on "creative capitalism" and a pledge of $306 million to support African agriculture. After two days of muttering about the subprime fallout and an American recession, Gates told delegates yesterday to cast...

Microsoft Income Jumps 79%
Microsoft Income Jumps 79%
Jan 24, 2008 5:21 PM CST

Microsoft Income Jumps 79%

Office, Vista, and Xbox behind $4.7B in quarterly revenue

(Newser) - Microsoft topped estimates today, revealing a 79% jump in quarterly profits over the same period last year—and raising targets for the year. On Xbox 360 and Windows sales, the world's largest software maker boasted net income of $4.71 billion for the period ending December 31, up from the...

FCC to Re-Test Wireless Internet Devices

Companies seek to broadcast web over unused TV airwaves

(Newser) - After a series of unsuccessful tests, the Federal Communications Commission is heading back to the lab to assess a new round of devices for broadcasting high-speed Internet in the white space available in between TV airwaves. The prototypes come from a coalition of top-tier bidders, including Microsoft, Philips, and Intel,...

Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
Jan 16, 2008 12:29 AM CST

Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook

Samwer brothers join Microsoft in social networking venture

(Newser) - Brothers Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer, founders of ring tone company Jamba, have just joined Microsoft and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing as major investors in US based social networking company Facebook. Though the Samwers' haven't disclosed the exact size of their investment, they told Der Spiegel  it was...

EU Goes After Microsoft (Yes, Again)

New investigation comes just months after court victory over company

(Newser) - The European Commission today again took aim at Microsoft, launching its first new antitrust investigations since the 1990s. Two probes will expand the principles of the last EU court victory over Microsoft—which a court upheld 4 months ago—to Office, Microsoft’s email tools, and Internet Explorer, reports the...

Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?
Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?
Jan 11, 2008 9:51 PM CST

Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?

Rumors of Microsoft takeover still swirling

(Newser) - Yahoo's falling core value threatens the company's future and is ringing alarm bells for investors, the New York Times’ Saul Hansell warned in his "Bits" blog. The central business of Yahoo.com, excluding subsidiary holdings, is worth less than half of its current share price, and a paltry 7%...

Group of Seattle Women Buy WNBA's Storm

Former deputy mayor, Microsoft execs pay $10 million for franchise

(Newser) - Though the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics could be on the way to Oklahoma City, the WNBA's Storm appears set to remain in the Emerald City thanks to a deal by four local women to buy the women's basketball franchise. The foursome, which includes a pair of Microsoft executives, will pay Sonics...

Is the Xbox 360 Going Blu?
Is the Xbox 360 Going Blu?
Jan 9, 2008 7:29 AM CST

Is the Xbox 360 Going Blu?

"Can't say it's not a bummer,' concedes Microsoft spokesman

(Newser) - Microsoft could be changing roles in the HD wars, as the corporation may consider switching from Toshiba's HD-DVD players to rival Sony's Blu-ray technology in the Xbox 360 if the warning signs of HD-DVD's demise prove true, reports Reuters. The announcement comes in the wake of Warner Bros. last week...

Microsoft to Buy Norway's Fast for $1.2B

Bid is 42% premium over enterprise searcher's recent price

(Newser) - Microsoft solidified its plans to purchase Fast Search & Transfer today with a $1.2 billion offer, roughly a 42% premium over the Norwegian enterprise search company's Friday closing price. The news drove Microsoft shares down today to $34.20, a 1.2% drop, while Fast shares rose nearly 41%,...

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