Microsoft - Yahoo saga seems to be over!

Published in May 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Well, after 3 months of negotiations, speculations and rumors the saga between Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be over, for now. Microsoft has formally withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo while the second publicly declared a victory for the Web at all. While there are clearly no winners in this virtual war here is what […]

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Despite rumors Microsoft is highly unlikely to increase its bid for Yahoo

Published in April 3rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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When last week we wrote about Yahoo’s shares going up on rumors that Microsoft is going to increase their bid for the Internet giant it seems those rumors were not very accurate. This week Microsoft gave Yahoo a very strong signal it won’t happen.
Sources “close to the company” tell the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft […]

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Yahoo shares up 4.4% on rumors Microsoft will increase the bid to $34

Published in March 26th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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To make a long story short a Citigroup Investment Research analyst believes that rather than let the deal fall apart, Microsoft will increase its buyout offer for Yahoo. Citigroup has raised its Yahoo price target to $34 per share based on their belief that Microsoft will revise its takeover offer. The guy is named Mark […]

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Are Digg’s users the real reason nobody buys them?

Published in March 10th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Technology, Web 2.0
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While reading over our daily dose of web 2.0 news and stories across our favorite technology blogs, we came across a very interesting theory being discussed on a few of these blogs.
Based on what we have read, and understood, it might turn out that Digg has a track record of surrendering to the mob when […]

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Digg is likely to make a nice exit soon

Published in March 7th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Technology, Web 2.0
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Digg, the user generated news site, has been pretty serious on getting itself sold for quite long time now. Just late last year they have hired Allen & Company to shop the site for what rumors claim to be anything in the $300 million range. There were literally millions of speculations around the blogosphere why […]

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Microsoft’s stock has fallen 13% since its offer for Yahoo

Published in February 19th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Companies, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Public, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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We have read tons of stories and points of views about the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo over the past weeks. We guess all people did. Everything seems already being said about the deal. Yet, something interesting popped up in the news today. It turns out that Microsoft is the big loser from the […]

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Yahoo makes an acquisition of its own – the online video platform Maven Networks

Published in February 13th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Media, Microsoft, Money, Multimedia, News Corp, Public Companies, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Yahoo, video
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Undeterred by the threat of a hostile takeover Microsoft imposed over them a couple of weeks ago Yahoo seems to have completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million.
The deal marks Yahoo’s latest attempt to expand its online advertising network and more concrete its online […]

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And here is what Microsoft has to tell Yahoo!

Published in February 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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The saga continues. Following the firm “NO” of Yahoo as of yesterday, Microsoft has put up today an official press release responding to the Yahoo!’s NO with “Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination”
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 11 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! […]

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Yahoo’s official response to Microsoft’s offer: NO!

Published in February 11th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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After we reported the strong NO of Yahoo! to Microsoft over the weekend (Saturday) here is the official response of the Yahoo!’s board of directors.
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has […]

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End of speculations: Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s offer

Published in February 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Internet giant Yahoo’s board has decided to reject Microsoft’s takeover bid, saying its 44.6 billion dollar offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today.
Yahoo’s board also believes the Microsoft offer, at 31 dollars per share, does not account for risks facing Yahoo if it pursues a deal that might be ultimately blocked […]

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One after another the potential competitive bidders for Yahoo drop off; is Yahoo going to surrender to Microsoft?

Published in February 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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A few days ago we were trying to analyze who is going to eventually make a counter offer to match or outbid the Microsoft’s $46B offer for Yahoo!.
By that time multiple sources were reporting counter offers are in preparation by competitive bidders trying to snatch Yahoo! before Microsoft does it. We then exclude Google from […]

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An acquisition within the 3-D modeling space

Published in February 7th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Internet, Media, Microsoft, Money, Multimedia, Public Companies, Software, Technology
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While everybody is waiting to see what is going to happen between Microsoft and Yahoo, the first made yet another technology acquisition – bought the 3D modeling and animation software company called Caligari to further improve its Virtual Earth. Caligari appears to be not the typical web 2.0 company one might think of at first […]

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Google’s Chief Legal Officer vs. Microsoft’s General Counsel

Published in February 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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An interesting virtual war is taking place on Web right now caused by the Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!. It appears Google cannot (or they don’t want to) enter the bidding war for Yahoo! due to many reasons; one of them seems to be the antitrust law complications that might arise from potential market dominance in the […]

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An online collaboration tool built around Microsoft Excel took $2M, plans for $2M more

Published in February 3rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Enterprise, Funding, Individuals Venture Fund, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Novus Ventures, Rocket Ventures, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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eXpresso, an online collaboration tool around Excel spreadsheets, has raised $2M round of financing from Novus and Rocket Ventures. This is on top of another couple of millions they’ve made off the sale of their original product, Smart DB, to Rocket Software (no relation to the VC firm). The money will be put towards expanding […]

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Is Google going to be the winner from the Microsoft-Yahoo deal?

Published in February 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Over the past a couple of days all the major media outlets are full with news, analyses, reports, commentaries and researches on the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! trying to figure out the benefits or the potential pitfalls the deal would eventually face.
We’ve read a lot and we’d like here to summarize the pluses […]

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Yes, we were right Yahoo was seriously undervalued; Microsoft offers $44.6B for the company, a 62% premium over their value from yesterday

Published in February 1st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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When a few days ago we conducted an in-depth research on Web and ran an analysis based on the information collected we came up to the logical conclusion that Yahoo! was seriously undervalued company. Today Microsoft proved us right by offering $44.6B for Yahoo!, which represents a 62% premium on Thursday’s closing price. All major […]

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Wall Street plunged but does it affect the Web 2.0

Published in January 22nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Amazon, Business, Facebook, Google, IAC, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, News Corporation, Public Companies, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Yahoo, eBay
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Wall Street plunged at the opening of trading Tuesday, propelling the Dow Jones industrials down about 300 points after an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve failed to assuage investors fearing a recession in the United States.
U.S. markets joined stock exchanges around the world that have fallen precipitously in recent days amid concerns that […]

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After Samwer brothers Nokia is also going to invest in Facebook

Published in January 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Business, Facebook, Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock Partners, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, Meritech Capital, Microsoft, Money, Nokia, Peter Thiel, Public Companies, Samwer brothers, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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It has been deal time for Facebook over the past months, or year? After Microsoft, the Honk Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing  and the Samwer brothers Nokia is now rumored to be in talk to invest in Facebook. Let’s however first take a look at what the Samwer brothers have gotten last week for their money.
The […]

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Can Google lead amid its ever growing infrastructure and computation expenditures?

Published in January 10th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Dell, Enterprise, Google, IBM, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology
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While reading our daily dose of news, stories and events from the web sector we came across an interesting fact worth reading and mentioning further. Google seems to be processing huge amounts of data per day in their daily routines – 20 Petabytes per day (20,000 Terabytes, 20M GBs).
The average MapReduce job is said to […]

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Microsoft bets on enterprise search, offers to buy Fast.no for $1.2B

Published in January 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Enterprise, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, eCommerce
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In what’s Microsoft’s second largest deal for the past 12 months the company offered to buy Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions based in Norway. Details are as follows: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: “FAST”), a […]

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