Google may seek Yahoo! alliance to rebuff Microsoft

'neb·u·lous' - adjective - cloudy or cloudlike - Dictionary.com 'Lick' has a lot to answer for. In 1963 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, 'Lick' to his friends, wrote a memo to his colleagues entitled 'Members and...

Making predictions for the new year, in the field of technology, is not as difficult as it sounds; analysing the trends that cause events to happen (like Microsoft's failed attempt to buy Yahoo in 2009) on the other hand is more...

Shareholders of mobile device maker Palm have announced that they have accepted an acquisition offer from Hewlett-Packard. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that the merger would be...

Microsoft and Yahoo! have been given permission to embark on a search engine deal announced seven months ago. European Competition law regulators have said the deal will not damage the European search engine market. Microsoft...

Facebook wanted to buy Twitter while it is still surfing the social networking wave but Twitter, feeling that it could be the next great thing, said no, arguing that it is worth more than the $500 million worth of Shares that...

Jerry Yang's decision to leave the company he created caused Yahoo's stock to rise by nearly 9 percent at the time of writing and paved the way for an acquisition or a potential merger. As it stands, it is not a matter of if but...

Something happened last Thursday 13th of November at 1300 PST, Yahoo Share prices reached their lowest point ever at $9.78, the first time EVER they went below the $10 barrier (ed: they have since recovered... but for how long?)...

Microsoft could be looking to buy Blackberry Manufacturer, Research in Motion (RIM), in what could potentially be the mother of all technology acquisitions, just days after the company released its first touchscreen...

Yahoo is still opened to a complete buyout by Microsoft or other companies which would be ready to put the right price on the table, said Jerry Yang, Yahoo's Chief Executive Officer. In what seems to be some kind of...

One has to wonder whether firing staff is evil or not; In the first time ever, Google is said to have fired several hundred employees as it takes the Doubleclick acquisition up to the next level. Google has acknowledged in a...

Google's acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick has been passed by European competition regulators and has been completed. The deal had already been passed by competition authorities in the US.The European Commission...

As consumers spend more time on the Internet, companies are redistributing advertising dollars from traditional media to online media to follow this trend. In its quarterly wrap-up report, IDC says total U.S. Internet ad spending...

Microsoft might get much more than it bargained for. Not only has its unsolicited approach to Yahoo embolden the company and sent its shares up by 25 percent since the beginning of the year, it has also given Yahoo the necessary...

"Google would gladly trade two competitors for one. And MS and Yahoo are both more lost than Google. So a buyout would only give Google a big advantage while MSFTYHOO figures out what to do." That's the words of John...

Microsoft could not have chosen a better time to close on Yahoo! The world's biggest tech company will almost certainly snap Yahoo for a bargain price, after the the later's share prices fell by nearly 32 percent compared to one...