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News items | ZDNet - Feb 6, 2008
Although expected to slow, earnings growth could exceed estimates; CEO expected to address strategy for cable, AOL divisions. Time Warner forecast on Wednesday profit growth to slow but possibly exceed analyst …
Also tagged: sales, finance, reuters, growth, time warner inc, sales strategy, operational accounting, america online inc, cnet networks inc
News items | ZDNet - Feb 6, 2008
Aimed at stealing market share from Baidu, Google partnership with Chinese online company would provide free music downloads. Web search leader Google is planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a …
Also tagged: management, strategy, china, personal technology, reuters, digital music, alliance, online music, google inc, cnet networks inc, baidu com inc
News items | ZDNet - Feb 5, 2008
The purchase, AOL's fifth in 12 months, is part of a strategy to bolster its Internet advertising operations. Time Warner's AOL said on Tuesday it has purchased Buy.at, an online affiliate marketing network, as part of …
Also tagged: internet, management, marketing, network, strategy, cable, personal technology, telecommunications, reuters, microsoft corp, time warner inc, marketing research, america online inc
News items | ZDNet - Feb 2, 2008
Former Viacom chief Frank Biondi among Icahn's nominees for Motorola board; company says it will review candidates on the list. Activist investor Carl Icahn said on Friday he plans to nominate former Viacom chief Frank …
Also tagged: financial services, marketing, consumer electronics, corporate governance, personal technology, reuters, cell, ipo, carl icahn, business operations, cellular phones, motorola inc, corporate law, advertising and promotion
News items | ZDNet - Feb 2, 2008
While some employees see Microsoft's bid as a positive development, they worry a merger would cool Yahoo's free-spirited atmosphere. Will Yahoos' yodels be silenced? Yahoo employees fretted on Friday that their …
Also tagged: management, entrepreneurship, finance, mergers and acquisitions, reuters, investment, microsoft corp, employee, yahoo inc
News items | ZDNet - Feb 1, 2008
To pull this off, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper. I found the perfect description to sum up the idea of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, but …
Also tagged: steve ballmer, finance, investment, microsoft corp, google inc, yahoo inc, charles cooper
News items | ZDNet - Feb 1, 2008
What would Microsoft gain by swallowing Yahoo for a proposed $44.6 billion? CNET News.com contrasts combined stats with Google's. Microsoft's bid for Yahoo would create one of the world's largest Web companies, when …
Also tagged: internet, marketing, e mail, finance, instant messaging, microsoft corp, online communications, google inc, yahoo inc, tom krazit, operational accounting, america online inc, channel management
News items | ZDNet - Feb 1, 2008
Microsoft faces financial and legal hurdles in its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com walks you through the potential steps. Microsoft faces several financial and legal hurdles on its way to wooing Yahoo to …
Also tagged: q, finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, investment, antitrust, microsoft corp, yahoo inc, news com, buyer, shareholder, business operations, dawn kawamoto, financial accounting, corporate law, bidder
News items | ZDNet - Feb 1, 2008
Rise in quarterly profit more than offset steep TV price falls for the third-largest flat-screen television maker. Japanese tech conglomerate Sharp Electronics reported a 5.5 percent rise in quarterly operating profit …
Also tagged: hardware, home entertainment, lcd, personal technology, reuters, tvs, components, lcd panel, sharp corp, tv and home theater, monitors and displays
News items | ZDNet - Feb 1, 2008
Offer--described by Yahoo as "unsolicited"--amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday. Microsoft went public Friday with a $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire …
Also tagged: steve ballmer, finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, investment, microsoft corp, google inc, yahoo inc, news com, business operations, corporate law, ina fried