Microsoft may find it has some leeway in increasing its Yahoo bid by 10 percent without spooking its investors, one Wall Street analyst notes in a research report released yesterday.
After the search company announced its decision yesterday to extend the March 14 deadline for the selection of a new board, Yahoo has left it to Microsoft to make the next move in a long-running takeover bid, amidst reports the software giant may be prepared to offer a lucrative cash deal for the company.
The software giant has announced an offer to acquire Norwegian enterprise search provider FAST, ending months of speculation of a planned move into the premium search market.
PC maker Dell will spend around US$340 million, on a software asset-management company, in a bid to simplify dealings with its customers.
IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction.
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As we embark on a new year, the industry hype-machine is slowly warming up to sell us new technologies that will make our jobs easier in 2007. Rest assured though that some problems will remain, like spam.
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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.
Hewlett-Packard executives are mulling plans to improve over the next 18 months the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, while it continues with commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies.
Do software customers actually care about the impact of provider's mergers and acquisitions, or are they just too far from the crux of business.
Oracle CEO provides details on embattled PeopleSoft merger.
Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems.
Palm pioneered the smart phone, but if rumours prove true, the Treo maker may not survive as an independent company to watch its creation move from the corner office to the street corner.
In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.
Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
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