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| Jul.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer| Yahoo rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft. and leave the remainder of the company in control of Carl Icahn. The complex deal would have meant a major dismantling of Yahoo; the sale of its coveted search e... | |
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| Jul.7 |
Yahoo |
M-soft wants to negotiate with new board
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| Jul.2 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft Exploring Partnership For Yahoo
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| Jun.2 |
Yahoo |
Documents show Yahoo-Microsoft saga
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| May.22 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo postpones meeting, battle Icahn
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| May.18 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go
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| May.14 |
Google |
Google Sites Ranked No. 1
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| May.3 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price
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| Apr.26 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo mum as Microsoft's deadline passes
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| Apr.5 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline for deal
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Take-Two Board Rejects EA Bid
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| Mar.15 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks
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| Mar.11 |
Google |
Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal
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| Mar.5 |
Yahoo |
Board meeting postponed to stave off bid
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover Yahoo Inc.'s board is saying that it 'substantially undervalues' the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offe...
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| Feb.1 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Goog...
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Oracle to Buy BEA for $7.85 Billion
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| May.4 |
Yahoo |
Reports: Microsoft Pursuing Yahoo
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| Apr.13 |
Google |
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B Seeking to expand the ability to sell targeted Internet ads, Google agreed to acquire ad-management technology company
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| Oct.9 |
Google |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
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| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b
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| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B
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Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
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| Jun.2 |
Sun |
Sun buys StorageTek for $4.1 billion
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| Apr.18 |
Adobe |
Adobe to acquire Macromedia for $3.4b
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| Dec.17 |
Cupertino |
Symantec snaps up Veritas for $13.5b
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| Jul.21 |
San Jose |
Brocade To Buy Foundry Networks for $3B
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| Jul.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer Yahoo rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft. and leave the remainder of the company in control of Carl Icahn
| The complex deal would have meant a major dismantling of Yahoo; the sale of its coveted search engine; the spin-off of its Asian assets and the ouster of its top management, including CEO Yang
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| Jul.7 |
Yahoo |
M-soft wants to negotiate with new board Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo board next month
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| Jul.3 |
Yahoo |
Shares soar on new takeover rumor |
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| Jul.2 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft Exploring Partnership For Yahoo WSJ: Microsoft has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business
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| Jun.30 |
Yahoo |
Defense against Icahn taken to investors
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Invitrogen to buy Applied Biosystems
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| Jun.2 |
Yahoo |
Documents show Yahoo-Microsoft saga Yahoo CEO Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft to engineer a takeover
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| May.30 |
San Jose |
Calpine rejects NRG offer, but leaves room
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| May.22 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo postpones meeting, battle Icahn Yahoo postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense or negotiate a sale to Microsoft
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| May.18 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go Microsoft has made a new, downsized offer to cooperate with the Web portal while leaving the door open to a merger down the road
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| May.17 |
Yahoo |
Investor suit accuses of hiding evidence
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CBS in $1.8B deal for info site Cnet
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| May.14 |
Google |
Google Sites Ranked No. 1 ComScore: Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the U.S., by rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors
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| May.4 |
Yahoo |
CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft
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| May.3 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price
| CEO Steve Ballmer withdrew the offer in a letter to Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang. Microsoft had raised its offer from $44.6bn to $47.5bn - $33 per share. Yahoo had insisted on at least $53bn - more than Microsoft was prepared to pay. Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock dismissed the unsolicited bid as a distraction
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| May.2 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft sweetened bid for Yahoo
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| Apr.26 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo mum as Microsoft's deadline passes Yahoo Inc. is setting the stage for the next chapter in the three-month standoff of technology titan
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| Apr.24 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft Won't Increase Bid For Yahoo
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| Apr.7 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo not opposed to deal with Microsoft
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| Apr.5 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline for deal The ultimatum, revealed in a letter from CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board, underscores impatience with the two-month merger saga
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Yahoo |
Microsoft May Cut Yahoo Bid
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Take-Two Board Rejects EA Bid
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| Mar.15 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks Microsoft Corp. executives met with their counterparts to lobby for a friendly merger
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| Mar.11 |
Google |
Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal European regulators approved the acquisition of online advertising giant, removing the last major obstacle for a deal
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| Mar.5 |
Yahoo |
Board meeting postponed to stave off bid Yahoo has extended the deadline for nominating members to its board, a move that delays Microsoft from trying a hostile takeover
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| Feb.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo in talks with News Corp.
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover| Yahoo Inc.'s board is saying that it 'substantially undervalues' the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offer | |
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| Feb.1 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid| Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Google. The offer leaves the decision in the hands of Yahoo's board. In making the unsolicited public acquisition offer, MS is hoping to force Yahoo's investors to support the deal as they bemoan a slumping share price. The surprise of... | |
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Oracle to Buy BEA for $7.85 Billion
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Sun |
Sun to buy MySQL for $1 billion
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| Dec.20 |
Google |
Regulators approve DoubleClick purchase
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| Oct.25 |
San Jose |
BEA willing to discuss sale to Oracle
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Microsoft Puts $240M In Facebook
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| Oct.13 |
San Jose |
BEA rejects Oracle's takeover bid
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Oracle Offers $6.7B for BEA Systems
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| May.29 |
Google |
FTC reviews into Google-DoubleClick deal
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| May.4 |
Yahoo |
Reports: Microsoft Pursuing Yahoo Microsoft is resuming its pursuit of search engine operator that could help it better compete with search leader Google. Yahoo shares surged...
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| Apr.13 |
Google |
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B| Seeking to expand the ability to sell targeted Internet ads, Google agreed to acquire ad-management technology company | |
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| Mar.15 |
Cisco |
Cisco agrees to buy WebEx for $3.2B
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| Dec.4 |
Milpitas |
LSI Logic to acquire Agere for $4 billion
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| Nov.30 |
Mountain View |
Intuit to Buy Digital Insight for $1.35B
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| Oct.31 |
Google |
Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer
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| Oct.9 |
Google |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn  Google is buying video-sharing website for $1.65bn in shares. The companies will continue to operate independently
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| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b The all-cash price works out to $52 per share, a 33% premium above Mercury's closing price of $39
in the over-the-counter market
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| Jul.24 |
AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices To Acquire ATI
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership
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| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times
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| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt
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Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
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| Nov.18 |
Cisco |
Cisco to acquire Scientific-Atlanta for $7b
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Novartis to buy Chiron
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| Sep.12 |
eBay |
eBay to Pay at Least $2.6B for Skype |
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| Jun.2 |
Sun |
Sun buys StorageTek for $4.1 billion Sun Microsystems has signed a deal to buy the technology firm to become more competitive in business data storage
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| Apr.18 |
Adobe |
Adobe to acquire Macromedia for $3.4b It's combining 2 of the largest makers of software for creating and delivering digital content
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| Dec.17 |
Cupertino |
Symantec snaps up Veritas for $13.5b Computer security giant is buying storage and backup program specialist to create the world's 4th largest software maker
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Oracle Buys PeopleSoft for $10.3 Billion
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| Dec.23 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Buys Inktomi
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| Dec.6 |
Cupertino |
IBM to Buy Rational Software
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| Jul.8 |
eBay |
eBay buying payment provider PayPal
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CEO claims victory in merger vote
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| May.6 |
Cisco |
Cisco buy ArrowPoint for $6 Billion
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