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 […]
NEW YORK (AFP) - Shares in Internet search behemoth Google surpassed 700 dollars for the first time Wednesday, cementing the technology firm’s position as one of America’s most valuable companies.
Google’s shares closed up 1.7 percent at 707.00 dollars amid wider market gains as investors continued to snap up its shares. Its share price has […]
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 […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, said on Friday it sued Internet search leader Google Inc for selling search words involving its name.
The claim is the latest in a string of cases filed worldwide by businesses that argue Google’s pay-per-click advertising system, its main source of revenue, is used unfairly by […]