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  • Ballmer: From the frying pan to the firing line

    In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat.

  • We will buy 20 companies a year: Ballmer

    Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense.

  • Sun to acquire MySQL for US$1bn

    Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open-source database developer MySQL for US$1bn.

  • HP shells out for site revamp

    Hewlett-Packard has recently spent tens of millions of dollars revamping its Web site in an attempt to make its e-commerce effort more coherent after its acquisition of Compaq.

  • Death of the free Web: The merger myth

    The unprecedented speed, number and price of Internet combinations formed to boost traffic has redefined the corporate merger, which critics now say contributed mightily to the decline of the overall industry.

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  • Adobe plots its path on the Web

    Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.

  • Google deal highlights Web 2.0 boom

    Google's acquisition of a tiny Web word processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called Web 2.0 companies struggling to survive -- or angling to be Google's next purchase.

  • Yahoo: Lars Rabbe, CIO

    In a ZDNet CIO Vision Series video interview, Lars Rabbe talks about innovating around Web 2.0, social networking and the tools driving development at the company.

  • Can there be another Google?

    While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.

  • Do you Google?

    As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.

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