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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. TAGS: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel, Bill Gates, shareholder, CEO, acquisition, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Bill Gates, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, Week in review, shareholder, CEO, chairman, acquisition, president, Microsoft Corp.

John Thompson places his wager

December 16, 2004 Symantec's CEO talks up the blockbuster acquisition that changes Symantec into a software megapower. TAGS: John Thompson, EMC Corp., acquisition, VERITAS Software Corp., Symantec Corp., storage management, PowerQuest Corp., merger, small and medium business, security company, space, security, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: VERITAS Software Corp., Symantec Corp., John Thompson, dividend, CEO, protection, acquisition, security, Microsoft Corp., antivirus

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. TAGS: StorageTek, storage management, Sun Microsystems Inc., Glasgow, grid computing, Scotland, Sun Solaris, thin client, excitement, Scott McNealy, open source, CEO, acquisition, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., backup

Adobe under construction

August 29, 2005 newsmaker CEO Bruce Chizen talks up the impending merger with Macromedia and what comes next for Flash. TAGS: Bruce Chizen, Macromedia Inc., merger, Newsmaker, Adobe Systems Inc., acquisition, Novell Inc., CEO, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: IAC/InterActive Corp., Ask Jeeves Inc., buyout, Expedia Inc., Ask.com, acquisition, sector, search engine, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, MSN, Google Inc., blog, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Internet portal, Dow Chemical Co., takeover, acquisition, merger, Larry Ellison, media, Yahoo! Inc., theory, CEO, America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., online collaboration, Nashville, open source, JBoss, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, hell, Web 2.0, attention, acquisition, CEO, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

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." TAGS: SAP AG, on-demand, CRM, hosted CRM, Henning Kagermann, Siebel Systems Inc., hosting company, Salesforce.com Inc., CEO, Oracle Corp., acquisition, agreement, Microsoft Corp., HP

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. TAGS: Macromedia Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Web application, open standard, acquisition, Microsoft Longhorn, battle, Adobe PDF, software company, platform, multimedia, CEO, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Windows

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. TAGS: Bruce Chizen, Adobe PhotoShop, Photobucket, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Inc., Google Picasa, acquisition, Google Inc., CEO, video, brand, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Borland Software Corp., Oracle Open World, announcement, Siebel Systems Inc., profit margin, PeopleSoft Inc., open-source company, open source, acquisition, CEO, database, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Spyglass, Mirabilis, VA Software Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., founder, IPO, PayPal, acquisition, America Online Inc., YouTube, software company, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., CEO, TV

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. TAGS: Great Plains Software, Steve Ballmer, leader, software company, acquisition, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., CEO, e-mail

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. TAGS: consolidation, John Thompson, intrusion prevention, RSA Security Inc., security company, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Juniper Networks Inc., conference, security, Cisco Systems Inc., Symantec Corp., threat, VPN, phishing, acquisition, CEO

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. TAGS: SAP AG, Henning Kagermann, business software company, Shai Agassi, SOA, SAP NetWeaver, Cambridge, fund, business software, on-demand, investment, software company, acquisition, conference, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: JotSpot, Web 2.0, Excite Inc., entrepreneurial, Web company, entrepreneur, dot-com, venture-capital company, innovation, investor, stock market, acquisition, CEO, Google Inc., start-up, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Carly Fiorina, profit, Illuminata Inc., Mark Hurd, HP, Wall Street, Compaq Computer Corp., merger, supplier, acquisition, server, vision, AMD, printer, IBM Corp., CEO

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. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., merger, Mercury Interactive Corp., SAP AG, Larry Ellison, middleware, IBM DB2, AMR Research, IBM Corp., CRM, database, acquisition, CEO, Microsoft Corp.
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