Why You Should Root Against Icahn
Crusading, faux white knight Carl Icahn is at it again. Icahn sent a letter to Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock announcing that he is going to lead a proxy fight to try and oust the board members whom he said...
Strange Bedfellows
May 15, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:51 AM/EST
May 8, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:34 AM/EST
MicroHoo Collapse Is Good for You
The collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is the best thing that could have happened to the rest of us. And from all accounts, the Alien really is dead. Consider it from the perspective of Microsoft customers. Even if you're one...
March 18, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:02 PM/EST
Behemoth in Waiting
Hard to tell if Yahoo really doesn't want to marry Microsoft, or if it's just playing hard to get. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told financial analysts that his company "is poised to capture growth in display advertising where we believe...
January 17, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:27 AM/EST
SAP: The Giant Awakes?
We've known all along that this deal was going to close without any problem, and it has. But the timing of the deal closing and the splashy new product announcements show just how important this deal is to SAP. To...
January 10, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:25 PM/EST
Why Is New York Taking a Special Interest in AMD?
Let's get this out in the open. I'm a New Yorker, and my mom lives upstate where they don't have broadband (or much of anything else), so I'm happy that AMD is building a plant upstate because that means jobs,...
December 20, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:24 PM/EST
I'll Take The Short Con
Ah, Joe Wilcox, you say you don't like the Google-DoubleClick merger. That's what you say, but in fact what you don't like is Google. You're in such a rush to pillory Google, its lack of ethics and its penchant for...
October 10, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:33 PM/EST
Winsome Lose Some
It's good to be reminded that it's far from a winner-take-all kind of world. With a few hours to kill before my flight took off from Fort Lauderdale this afternoon, I parked myself next to a winsome-looking blond because ......
August 20, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007 2:58 PM/EST
Who's a Good Competitor?
It was kind of funny hearing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer call Cisco a "good competitor" today at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York, where he shared a stage with Cisco CEO John Chambers. After all, Microsoft itself has been...
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