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Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates
February 16, 2008
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says loyalists who want to give Yahoo's CEO one more chance are living in the past.
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Week in review: Heat returns to Yahoo
June 27, 2008
Billionaire activist investor wants to show the door to Yahoo's CEO, while Bill Gates walks away from day-to-day work at Microsoft. Also: A Facebook face-off.
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John Thompson places his wager
December 16, 2004
Symantec's CEO talks up the blockbuster acquisition that changes Symantec into a software megapower.
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Symantec CEO: We're in the protection business
April 13, 2006
John Thompson says security moniker falls short of the mark--and he's not worried about Microsoft's OneCare.
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McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape
June 9, 2005
Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.
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Adobe under construction
August 29, 2005
newsmaker CEO Bruce Chizen talks up the impending merger with Macromedia and what comes next for Flash.
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InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
March 21, 2005
Barry Diller's Net company expands its horizons at a time of frantic activity in the search sector.
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Keeping up with the (Dow) Joneses
May 7, 2007
Rumblings of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may not have panned out, but in the merger world, the pursuers and pursued are still out in force.
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Red Hat: Microsoft still 'aggressive as hell'
June 1, 2006
CEO Matthew Szulik talks about staying relevant in a world where the operating system isn't the talking point it once was.
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SAP says it won't join the on-demand crowd
April 14, 2005
"With on-demand," CEO says, "the customer hands his destiny to someone else and then he finds...he cannot get his destiny back."
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Macromedia, Adobe make peace for bigger fight
April 18, 2005
Software makers join forces in $3.4 billion pact to stave off larger threats from both Microsoft and open standards.
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Adobe sees its future on the Web
March 5, 2007
Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards.
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Sending the penguins out with a hot foot
October 27, 2006
perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle.
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Internet deals of the damned
October 10, 2006
More often than not, big Internet acquisitions turn out to be disappointments, or at least a bit ahead of their time.
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Microsoft business unit head steps aside
November 17, 2005
Doug Burgum takes up another role as the company looks for a new leader for its unit selling software to midsized customers.
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Security show tackles online threats
February 14, 2005
The security industry takes on phishing, viruses and all manner of online threats at the annual RSA Security Conference this week.
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SAP launches investment fund, new software
May 17, 2006
Business software maker announces new versions of flagship software, plus an acquisition and a $125 million investment fund.
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Does Web 2.0 bubble have a silver lining?
November 6, 2006
Not all of today's Web start-ups will survive. But the relatively low cost of getting one going means Web services are being developed fast.
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HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's discipline
August 28, 2006
Company investors and employees have two leaders to thank for HP's resurgence this year, as the Compaq bet finally starts to pay off.
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Praise, skepticism greet Oracle-Siebel merger
September 12, 2005
Reaction to Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems is mixed, but it won't be as complex as Oracle's purchase of PeopleSoft.
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