Yahoo Board Escapes MS Bear Hug: Yahoo Jitsu!
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Board Escapes MS Bear Hug: Yahoo Jitsu! The Yahoo board of directors will formally reject Microsoft’s $31 bid, according to a report today in the WSJ. The Microsoft letter (i-banker parlance, a bear hug) sent to the Yahoo board. The Jiu Jitsu move that Yahoo used to slip out of Microsoft’s arms? The board stated the 62 percent preimum “massively undervalues” Yahoo and doesn’t cover the risk that regulators here and abroad might body slam the deal. Rumors are rife that Yahoo may tag out in search, tapping its former tag team partner, Google, to crush Microsoft. Google, combined with Yahoo’s share of searches, would become the de facto search engine on the Internet, achieving Eric Schmidt’s stated goal: In martial arts and grappling, the bear hug is a dominant position, allowing great control of an opponent. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo Board Escapes MS Bear Hug: Yahoo Jitsu!’…)
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A Safety Net For VMware
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
Disaster recovery software provider Neverfail Group is adding a VMware module to its roster of tools, in a move to capitalize on enterprises’ burgeoning interest in virtualization.
Neverfail’s new module protects VMware’s VirtualCenter Server, a component within VMware VirtualCenter that acts as the central control node in configuring, provisioning and managing virtualized IT environments.
The offering — dubbed Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter — works similarly to the vendor’s nine existing disaster recovery modules, which add failover features to Windows-environment enterprise software.
More EC Troubles for Microsoft?
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
If Microsoft thought settling with European antitrust regulators over earlier anti-competitive practices would get it off the hot seat, it certainly hasn’t turned out that way.
Last month, the European Commission (EC) announced two new probes into Microsoft’s actions in areas ranging from bundling Internet Explorer with Windows to whether its Office Open XML (OOXML) formats are “sufficiently interoperable with competitors’ products.”
That came on the heels of a major European court verdict in September affirming the EC’s 2004 decision that Microsoft abused its dominance to illegally reinforce its position vis-à-vis competitors in European markets.
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Open Source Turns 10
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
On Feb. 9, 1998, the open source movement was born. It was on that historical day a decade ago that Bruce Perens published the defining document of the open source movement, the Open Source Definition.
In the last 10 years open source has gone from being a manifesto to becoming a powerful force across nearly every sector of information technology. Few if any, including Perens himself, could have predicted the impact that open source would have at this point.
“We had Linux, we had networking and we knew we could make wonderful servers.
Dell Site Glitch Sets Off AMD Abandonment Fears
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
After what we at InternetNews.com have been through in the last few days, we can sympathize with hiccups like Dell faced recently. A notice on the site sent led to misleading reports that Dell had discontinued selling consumer AMD systems.
People searching for AMD products on Dell.com were given the message “Shop for Dell computers with AMD processors in retail stores. See our retail partners for details. Computers with AMD processors are not available online.” This prompted a number of news sites, including CNNfn, to rush out reports full of speculation that AMD might be ditched without ever contacting Dell to ask what was going on.
As it turns out, the reports were partly accurate, but could have used a few extra details.
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Technical Analysis: Downside Momentum Wanes
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
By almost any measure, the stock market has lost its downside momentum here. For starters, new lows on the NYSE remain below 100; at their bottom three weeks ago, there were more than 1,000. The S&P 500 is only 1.6% above last month’s closing low of 1310, yet the number of stocks making new 52-week lows has fallen by more than 90% during that time. The advance-decline line (first chart below) also is holding well above its lows here. Sentiment also largely favors the bulls, particularly when you look at where money is being put to work. Commercial futures traders are getting long the big S&P contract while small investors are cautious if not short. (Read the full post about ‘Technical Analysis: Downside Momentum Wanes’…)
What’s Waiting For Microsoft-Yahoo in Washington?
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
The first wave of government inquiry into Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo will break another day. But rest assured, it’s coming.
Citing scheduling issues, the House Judiciary Committee has postponed today’s hearing on the state of competition on the Internet, slated to feature testimony from an undisclosed roster of experts on the potential competitive problems that would result from combining the two companies.
Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and ranking Republican member Lamar Smith of Texas announced the hearing on Feb. 1, just hours after Microsoft sent a shockwave across the tech world with its unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo.
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Amazon Leads Tech Stocks Higher
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A $1 billion share buyback boosted Amazon.com shares Friday and drew investors into technology shares for a second day.
After plunging 5% in the first three days of the week on slowdown fears, the Nasdaq has gained more than 2% off Thursday’s low despite a warning from Cisco that the slowdown is real.
But investors have begun to see signs of value in the sector, driven in part by Microsoft’s nearly $45 billion bid for Yahoo. Shares of both companies edged higher Friday on reports that Yahoo’s board is meeting to consider its options.
Amazon was another sign of value, up nearly 4% after the company said it will buy back shares and part of its debt too.
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For e-Tailers, It’s a Wide, Wide Web
Autor admin | 09.02.2008 | Category SEO
As the e-commerce train keeps a-rolling, the most successful online retailers will be those that take a multi-channel approach in their Web strategies, according to a recent study from JupiterResearch.
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According to Jupiter’s analysis, the most successful e-commerce campaigns are nuanced, mindful of the interrelated skein of affiliate networks, search engine marketing, ad networks and social sites that can drive sales.
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Industry Abuzz on What’s Next: Yahoo/Microsoft
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NEW YORK — A major investor in Yahoo (QUOTE NASDAQ:YHOO) has met with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited offer for the company, the New York Post reported on Friday.
Capital Research and Management, which owns more than 11 percent of Yahoo shares and more than 6 percent of Microsoft, wants to know how much more the software maker might pay if Yahoo rejects the initial offer, the Post said, citing a source familiar with the meeting.
Officials for Capital Research and Microsoft declined comment on the report.
Separately, the TechCrunch blog said Yahoo’s board is due to meet on Friday to discuss the bid.
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