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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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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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Still no cure for what ails Yahoo
July 18, 2007
Executives offer promises but no real plan to turn company around in the face of search titan Google.
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Mike Volpi's trek from Cisco to Joost
June 6, 2007
Once considered the heir apparent to the CEO spot at Cisco, Volpi talks about what attracted him to the top spot at video start-up Joost.
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JBoss CEO: Buyout talk got 'out of hand'
April 3, 2006
Even as JBoss weighs acquisition offers, its CEO bemoans some of the "nonsense" regarding Oracle acquisition rumors.
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Oracle adds security firm to shopping basket
March 28, 2005
On acquisition tear, company scoops up 100-person software company specializing in computer user authentication.
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Oblix Inc.
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Ellison talks about the acquisition
December 14, 2004
Excerpts from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's press conference announcing an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft.
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Siebel buys firm focused on e-billing technology
December 17, 2004
The $115 million deal for Edocs is a bid to heat up tepid demand for CRM software.
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Five steps to a Yahoo turnaround
June 20, 2007
Social media, video, efficiency and someone calling the shots on technology should be on the top of the to-do list for new CEO Jerry Yang.Photos: Boomerang bosses
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Seeking focus, CA will mothball some products
February 16, 2005
Instead of trying to maintain a portfolio of 1,000 products, firm will focus on 300 or 400 in security, systems management.
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Symantec: No end in sight for acquisitions
October 31, 2005
No plans to get into identity management but more megadeals on the horizon, a top executive at the security giant says.
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Ellison looks to double Oracle revenue
September 22, 2005
CEO wants to grow company from a nearly $15 billion concern to a $30 billion titan--while maintaining a 40 percent operating margin.
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Sun completes StorageTek acquisition
September 1, 2005
Some analysts frown on deal, saying Sun has blundered with buyouts before. But CEO says buy provides major sales force for storage products.
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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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SAP expects strong growth, acquisitions
November 17, 2003
The software maker's chief executive says it will grow faster than the market for enterprise software, and he hints at future acquisition plans.
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MySQL hits $50 million revenue, plans IPO
April 25, 2007
Open-source database maker hopes going public will raise funds for acquisitions, CEO Marten Mickos says.
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U.K. cable company taps Comcast for new CEO
December 16, 2005
Amid merger talks with Virgin Mobile, NTL grabs Stephen Burch for his experience in acquiring AT&T Broadband.
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Kodak buys into digital printing
March 8, 2004
With a pair of acquisitions, the photography icon hopes to cash in on growth in commercial printing. But per-share payback won't come soon.
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Video site buying spree in the offing?
October 10, 2006
Some observers wonder if more deals will follow Google's acquisition of YouTube.
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Sony Corp.
Seagate's mission--'digitizing your lifestyle'
May 8, 2006
For CEO William Watkins, the next decade is all about moving content from home to car to handheld.
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