Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google.
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions.
Salesforce.com is expected to unveil Spring '07 on Monday, an update to its core on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software. The update comes less than two months after the company released its last core upgrade with Winter '07.
Poor sales of Windows Vista-related products have hit the profits of UK retailer PC World, according to its parent company, DSG International.
Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors. The software giant has so far refused to specify which patents are allegedly being infringed by these vendors, leading some experts to assert that its threats are empty.
The Mozilla Foundation's browser may be free, but that doesn't keep insiders from cashing in.
It's a business truism that success comes through growth and growth comes through innovation -- but how can you innovate in your use of technology without risking funding, reputation, and your entire infrastructure? Angus Kidman investigates.
Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development?
Steve Wood, president of Nortel Networks, Australia and New Zealand, defends his company's moves into a wireless future.
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