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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
February 1, 2008
Offer--described by Yahoo as "unsolicited"--amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday.
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Google Inc.
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! Inc.
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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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Yahoo! Inc.
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Terry Semel
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Bill Gates
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
BEA sets buyout price at $21 a share
October 25, 2007
Oracle's offer of $17 per share? No thanks, BEA says again. This time, it's countering with what it sees as a better shareholder value.
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BEA Systems Inc.
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Business Objects
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SAP AG
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Buyout could serve both BEA, Oracle
October 12, 2007
The proposed acquisition could resolve questions about BEA's future growth. Then there's the Carl Icahn factor.
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BEA Systems Inc.
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Oracle Corp.
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Carl Icahn
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Siebel Systems Inc.
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PeopleSoft Inc.
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SAP AG
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letter
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IBM Corp.
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California
Mandrakesoft in $7.3 million stock sell-off
September 16, 2004
Move should open the way for the Linux seller to buy other companies.
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Novell Inc.
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Linux
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France
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North America
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Europe
Sun investors size up McNealy
October 18, 2005
While they may agree with his strategy for turning the company around, investors still wonder if Scott McNealy is up to the task.
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SeeBeyond Technology Corp.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
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StorageTek
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Oracle makes 'final' bid for PeopleSoft
February 4, 2004
The business software maker increases its hostile offer for rival PeopleSoft to $26 per share, raising the overall value of the acquisition purse to $9.4 billion.
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Oracle to swallow Siebel for $5.8 billion
September 12, 2005
The database giant makes its fourth acquisition this year, buying up CRM specialist Siebel.
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General Electric Co.
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PeopleSoft's 'better plan' leaves customers cold
July 28, 2004
Missteps in the merger with J.D. Edwards may open the door for Oracle.
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Pivotal moves to reject rival buyout bid
November 18, 2003
Pivotal rejects a $58 million all-stock buyout proposal from rival Onyx Software and is weighing a new unsolicited acquisition proposal.
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Onyx Software
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Talisma Corp.
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AMD folds in ATI for graphics future
October 25, 2006
Newly merged company outlines its plans to deliver a combination PC/graphics processor by 2008 or 2009.
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Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer to $24 per share
November 1, 2004
Bid's value rises to $8.8 billion in what Oracle says is its "best and final offer."
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Is PeopleSoft waiting for the right price?
October 5, 2004
A company board member testifies in trial that a sale would be possible if Oracle ups its offer.
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Was it worth the effort?
July 16, 2004
On the eve of a decisive court confrontation, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper takes the measure of Larry Ellison's pursuit of PeopleSoft--and finds it wanting.
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Craig Conway
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Computer Associates International Inc.
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SSA Global picks off Epiphany
August 4, 2005
Enterprise planning specialist agrees to buy CRM software maker Epiphany in a marriage of midmarket applications providers.
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Comcast walks away from Disney bid
April 28, 2004
The cable giant withdraws its multibillion-dollar offer to acquire Disney, citing opposition from the entertainment company's board and its own investors.
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Razr-thin margins in Motorola strategic divide
February 5, 2007
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sees a top phone maker that's lost its edge, and he's ready to act. But what about the CEO's vision?
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Ed Zander
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Motorola Inc.
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Merrill Lynch to HP: Time for a breakup
June 7, 2004
Analyst Steven Milunovich says HP should split into two businesses to better compete with Dell and IBM. Printing and imaging would be a natural separate company, he says.
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Compaq Computer Corp.
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CDC Software enters Pivotal sweepstakes
November 18, 2003
Chinese-controlled CDC Software joins the bidding war to acquire Pivotal, a maker of software for managing customer relationships.
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