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Microhoo Takeover Battle Rages On
Today, the press and blogosphere learned that Microsoft’s CEO had sent a public letter to Yahoo’s Board of Directors last Friday, with a three week time-frame for them to come to a buyout agreement. The letter essentially attempts to justify the initial offer of $44.6 billion , and threatens to take the offer directly [...]
Google Sites To Challenge Microsoft SharePoint
After over a year of acquiring JotSpot, a software company that specialized in enterprise social software, Google has finally launched Google Sites - a renaissance of JotSpot with Google branding.
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Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo Rejected
It’s official. Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer (in both cash and stock) for Yahoo has been rejected. This bid has caused a great stir in the search community as well as the larger business world in general.
Google tried to derail the possible Yahoo takeover by citing anti-trust concerns. Okay, Microsoft is well known for its anti-trust [...]
Microsoft adCenter Wins Wall Street Journal Deal
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJDN) has delegated Microsoft adCenter with the responsibility of delivering advertisements to its network. This partnership is beneficial to Microsoft in many ways and sheds some light as to where adCenter could be headed in the years to come.
The WSJDN comprises of some notable Internet properties including Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, [...]
Microsoft Live Search Gaining Market Share?
Nielsen Online’s December search share numbers have been sending small ripples through the search marketing world. According to Nielsen, Microsoft’s Live Search was the only of the “big three” search engines to increase its market share in December, from 12% to 13.8% for queries performed in the United States.
On the other hand, Yahoo and Google [...]
