Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock is leading a group of the company’s board members in favor of accepting Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a new report.
The informal group headed by Bostock also includes other board members and billionaire investor Ron Burkle, according to the report in the New York Post, which […]
First Microsoft wanted Yahoo, but Yahoo’s board didn’t want Microsoft. After the rejection, Yahoo expressed interested in a Google alliance, but sources close to Google say that the company isn’t interested in being partners with Yahoo anymore. Google just wants Microsoft and Yahoo to leave it and each other alone.
Microsoft is trying to force […]
On November 15, Microsoft’s Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with “more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV.”
To celebrate the anniversary, Microsoft is giving all Xbox Live users the opportunity to download the XBLA game Carcassone free of charge between […]
New improvements to the high speed Internet2 network infrastructure are completed and primed with 100Gbps capacity for US research and education communities.
The updated network’s wrap-party was at Internet2’s annual Fall Member Meeting today in San Diego. The company showed off its new Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN), which, beginning January 2008, will let US researchers provision […]