Category: IT - Published: April 7, 2008
As expected, Yahoo has responded to Microsoft’s 3 week ultimatum this morning. The bottom line is pretty clear in a letter signed by Jerry Yang (CEO) and Roy Bostock (chairman). In the “Dear Steve” response to Ballmer they state, “we will not allow you or anyone else to acquire the company for anything less than […]
Category: IT - Published: April 7, 2008
Microsoft Corp. today told Yahoo Inc. that it has three weeks to agree to its unsolicited $42 billion takeover bid or face a proxy fight and possibly a lower offer.
“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including […]
Category: IT - Published: December 29, 2007
Customers who shop Best Buy’s website often come across deals only to find that the items are sold out or on backorder. The site then often directs customers to proceed to the local store to purchase the item (usually denying customers the option to buy online with in-store pickup).
At first glance, this doesn’t seem like […]
Category: Internet and Network - Published: October 11, 2007
This is no time for Google’s shares to be reaching all-time highs. It’s not that the company’s performance doesn’t warrant a lofty stock price. Fresh statistics from researchers at comScore (SCOR), for instance, showed Google (GOOG) accounted for 37.1 billion, or 61%, of the 61 billion Web searches carried out globally in August.
No, the problem […]