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01 Dec 19 : 09 | Microsoft vs. the Cloud Dennis Byron submits: Bruce Everiss says he is "a veteran games industry marketer," probably for the same reason I say I call myself a "senior analyst." It's not because I have been doing IT market analysis for a long time -- which I have -- but because I get two bucks off now at the movie theater... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
01 Dec 13 : 34 | Yahoo, Microsoft Rumor Mill Doesn't Get a Holiday Tech Confidential submits: Yet another Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) -Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) rumor: this time that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion. Here's the denial from executives at both companies. With Jerry Yang on the way out, Carl Icahn buying more Yahoo! stock... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
01 Dec 08 : 16 | Microsoft and Yahoo: Anything Brewing? Mathew Ingram submits: Kara Swisher at All Things Digital always gives me grief when I do this, but I’m going to do it anyway: Namely, point to a rumour — in this case, a rumour in the Times of London about Microsoft MSFT) making some kind of convoluted deal to proceed with what amounts to a... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
30 Nov 14 : 11 | Microsoft / Yahoo: Round Two Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Rumor has it that MSFT is kicking YHOO’s tires, again, but this time it’s only going after the search component of the business. We know search is key because it accounts for 40% of the only remaining bright spot in advertising, but also because it is seen within... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
30 Nov 08 : 19 | Reports of New Microsoft/Yahoo Deal Are Hard to Believe Erick Schonfeld submits: The UK’s Times Online is reporting that “Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion.” The report is filled with lots of juicy, specific details that lend it credence, but don’t make a lot of sense when you drill down into them.... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
28 Nov 23 : 43 | Microsoft Live Cashback Gets Glitchy in Traffic Michael Arrington submits: Microsoft (MSFT) lined up some great deals for Live Cashback users Friday. But users are reporting that the site was down much of the morning, and more than half of my attempts to connect are timing out. Given the high volume of ecommerce sales that take place today,... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
03 Dec 08 : 54 | Yahoo-AOL: Why Not an Obvious Solution? Diane Mermigas submits:Yahoo's (YHOO) deepening problems could be expeditiously addressed by a multi-pronged value-creating deal involving Time Warner's (TWX) AOL and Velocity Interactive--if the principals could just agree on the value of the newly combined entity. Some sources say the concept of... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 23 hours ago |
02 Dec 21 : 11 | There's Talk of Taking Yahoo Private Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Well, here’s a new twist to the Yahoo (YHOO) saga. According to the Wall Street Journal, former AOL chief Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money to buy all or part of the company. The story is sourced to “people familiar with the matter.” The story says... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 35 hours ago |
18 Nov 08 : 35 | Online Video Format Market Heats Up as Microsoft Introduces Silverlight 3 Dan Rayburn submits: Scott Guthrie at Microsoft (MSFT) posted more details on his blog about the adoption of Silverlight 2 and gave some details on new features in Silverlight 3, slated to be released next year.While I had previously heard Microsoft say 1 in 4 machines on the Internet has some form... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
16 Nov 13 : 17 | VMware's Biggest Threat: It's Not Microsoft Gregory Ness submits:The tech industry loves great battles between rivals, and it is often tempting to frame challenges within the context of specific competitive battles. Many see the entrance of Microsoft (MSFT) or even Citrix (CTXS) into virtualization as VMware’s (VMW) biggest threat. I beg... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
17 Nov 10 : 22 | How Much Will Game Theft Harm Microsoft's Xbox 360? Bruce Everiss submits:Gaming is growing massively and will soon be bigger than television and film combined. This is because gaming has the technical advantages of interactivity, connectivity and non linearity. No other entertainment medium can compete with these. These 3 technical advantages... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
14 Nov 16 : 14 | Microsoft Online Store May Drive Another Nail in Retail Coffin Erick Schonfeld submits: The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Thursday, Microsoft quietly drove another nail into the coffin of packaged software by launching the Microsoft Store on the Web. After testing the software download store in Europe and Korea, Microsoft... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
13 Nov 18 : 50 | Adobe: Do Not Underestimate Microsoft's Ability to Compete with Flash Dan Rayburn submits: Comments from a meeting last week with journalists at Adobe's (ADBE) headquarters indicate that Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, thinks Adobe has already won the online video platform battle and that Flash can survive any threat from Microsoft (MSFT). That's a dangerous assumption... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
12 Nov 21 : 06 | Who Will Win? Microsoft Doubles Google's Offer to Verizon Sam Gustin submits: Now that Microsoft (MSFT) has apparently moved on from Yahoo (YHOO), the software giant is looking for new avenues to attack Google (GOOG), its arch-enemy. The latest battlefront is mobile search, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is close to securing a... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
11 Nov 09 : 42 | Microsoft: Four-Stay Buy, but on a Dip Dividends4Life submits: (This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net November 3, 2008.) Linked here is a PDF copy of my detailed analysis of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) (alt.1, alt.2). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis:Complete Story » Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
07 Nov 21 : 48 | Yahoo: Analyst Focus Turns to Microsoft Search Deal Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Jerry Yang’s list of options for stopping the bleeding at Yahoo (YHOO) has continued to dwindle. Pressured by the Feds, Google (GOOG) pulled out of the search outsourcing deal. Despite speculation, Microsoft (MSFT) insists it doesn’t want to make a new bid to... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
05 Nov 09 : 59 | Did Microsoft Bet on the Wrong Networking Partner? Joe Panettieri (The VAR Guy) submits: As Nortel Networks (NT) continues to struggle, I'm starting to wonder: Did Microsoft (MSFT) bet on the wrong unified communications partner? Sure, Microsoft works with multiple networking companies -- including Cisco Systems (CSCO). But Microsoft's most... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
06 Nov 08 : 02 | Microsoft Spending on Vista Confirms Linux Foundation Theory Dennis Byron submits: I wrote in an October 19 blogpost that HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), etc. “created” Linux and followed up on October 22 concerning the Linux Foundation ((LF)) approach to explaining the same statement. LF, which is funded by HP, IBM and so forth had estimated (see its 12-page... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
04 Nov 22 : 36 | Yahoo: Bernstein Expects Microsoft to Try Again at Around $20/Share Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: For Yahoo (YHOO), the end game may still lie in Redmond. That’s the conclusion of Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. In a research note this morning, he says that the revised terms of Yahoo’s proposed advertising outsourcing deal with Google (GOOG) is... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
28 Nov 12 : 24 | Icahn Swims Against the Tide, Increases Yahoo Holdings Ron Haruni submits:Billionaire investor and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) board member Carl Icahn has increased his holdings in the Sunnyvale, California-based Web Portal by adding 6.8 million shares to his position for about $65 million. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
25 Nov 11 : 22 | Novell vs. Red Hat: The Battle for Software Partners Joe Panettieri (The VAR Guy) submits: Who has more certified software partners: Novell Inc. (NOVL) or Red Hat Inc. (RHT)? The answer to that critical question could determine which company dominates the long-term Linux market.In the 1990s, Microsoft grew dominant because software developers wrote... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
24 Nov 11 : 34 | White Space: A Big White Lie? November 24, 2008 | about stocks: GOOG / MSFT / T / VZ Shelly Palmer Add to Your Watchlist About this author: Bio & more articles Visit: ShellyPalmer.com Become a ContributorSubmit an Article Font Size: Print Email Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled "White Space – A Connected Future"... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
21 Nov 20 : 55 | 5-1/2 Ways to Make the Market Rally Toro submits:I got thinking about what could cause the market to rise dramatically higher and reverse this extreme oversold condition. These include Ban on short selling. Rumour has it that the government may ban the short selling of Citigroup (C) alone, given that broker desks and hedge... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
20 Nov 08 : 38 | Yahoo: It's Now or Never Diane Mermigas submits:The yin to the yang going on at Yahoo (YHOO) has serious implications for media and Internet companies that believe a merger or alliance can solve, rather than compound, their problems. There is something to be said for resorting to leadership and innovation instead. That is... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
18 Nov 13 : 11 | Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News Yang leaves Yahoo. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's (YHOO) beleaguered chief executive, will step down from his role as CEO as soon as the board can find a replacement. He will return to his previous role as Chief Yahoo where he will focus on strategy and technology. Yang was widely blamed by investors when a... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
17 Nov 11 : 35 | Warning: New Lows Ahead Mark Caffee submits:Let me say upfront I'm long [[UYG]], and I'm getting my financial 'head' handed to me. The game plan for me has been trying to catch this proverbial 'bloody knife', but there needs to be a transfusion fast. When Capt. Paulson of the U.S.S. Financial Disaster recanted in the name... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
16 Nov 18 : 25 | Online Ad Growth Is on 'Pause' Erick Schonfeld submits: We all know online advertising decelerated in the third quarter, but how bad was the slowdown overall? To find out, we added up the online advertising revenues for Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT), and AOL (part of [[TWX]]), which together account for the... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
12 Nov 13 : 14 | Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News Little progress on Big Three bailout. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguing General Motors (GM) is too big to fail, urges 'immediate action' to help automakers, but faces resistant Republicans and a noncommittal White House. Pelosi wants to include automakers in TARP, but without bipartisan support,... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
11 Nov 06 : 01 | Trippin' with Trip: One Man's View of Carnage to Come Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Every month, Trip Chowdhry, the one-man band who covers all things tech under the moniker Global Equities Research, writes a piece he calls Silicon Scoop on current trends and gossip from the Valley. It’s always a good read, but this time around it is especially... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
06 Nov 11 : 44 | A Yahoo Takeover Trade as Google Partnership Crumbles Andy Singh submits:Amongst strong objections and threats of legal action from antitrust regulators and customers who believed a Google/Yahoo alliance would have too much power over on-line commerce, Google (GOOG) has scrapped its Internet advertising partnership with rival Yahoo (YHOO). The market... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
04 Nov 17 : 53 | Handicapping the Watered Down Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Larry Dignan (ZDNet) submits: With the advertising deal between Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) now in the Department of Justice’s lap with restrictions two things are becoming clear. Yahoo will reap less revenue and Google is hanging in with a non-material deal to keep Microsoft (MSFT) out of the... Source : SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page |
