Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
AP - Microsoft Corp. is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional method of selling programs that run on individual desktops or corporate servers.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Microsoft Corp introduced on
Wednesday pricing for its suite of online services targeted at
corporate customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage
other companies to sell the software company's products.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
PC World - IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the time of Internet users to make the Web more accessible to the...
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
AP - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is apparently trying to prevent problems similar to the ones that followed the release of the software to the general public in May.
Read Microsoft Plans To Ship Service Pack 3 Of Windows XP Soon
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