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  • Icahn/Microsoft deal 'erratic and unpredictable': Yahoo

    Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.

  • Business Objects and SAP plan Australian blitz

    The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP.

  • Microsoft, Icahn join forces for Yahoo takeover

    Investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday asked Yahoo investors to oust Yahoo's board and in its place elect Icahn's dissident slate, potentially paving the way for a purchase of the internet company in its entirety or just its search assets.

  • Microsoft still wooing Yahoo, but not to buy

    Microsoft and Yahoo once again speaking to each other, with sources saying the latest talks involve a deal short of an acquisition.

  • Google stews over new Microsoft offer

    Google's top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft's new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google's potential ad deal with Yahoo.

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  • Microsoft's next move as Yahoo rejects dowry

    As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.

  • PeopleSoft founder back in the enterprise game

    The two-year hostile takeover battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft has apparently not left Dave Duffield winded.

  • Does new Peoplesoft CEO signal a buyout?

    Is PeopleSoft's founder and long-time chief executive back at the helm to accept Oracle's takeover bid, or to dig in for a long-term battle?

  • Will Microsoft buy Red Hat?

    OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

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