News: Mergers & Acquisitions

• IDC: Economic crisis will kill off some PC makers
  Sharon Gaudin
  Dec 04 2008
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  With credit in a tight squeeze and the economy in free fall, the next few years should see the collapse of some small PC makers and a restructuring of the rest of the industry, according to an ...

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• Google called off Yahoo deal as DOJ closed in
  Heather Havenstein
  Dec 04 2008
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  Google Inc. called off its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo just three hours before the U.S. Department of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on Nov. 5 aimed at blocking it, ...

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• AT&T to cut 12,000 employees through 2009
  Jeremy Kirk
  Dec 04 2008
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  AT&T will lay off 12,000 workers through 2009 as the company reorganizes and faces a tough economic environment, the company said Thursday. AT&T will spend US$600 million in its fourth ...

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• Taiwan hopes to avoid US-style bail-out for DRAM industry
  Dan Nystedt
  Dec 03 2008
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  The Taiwanese government stands ready to help its ailing DRAM industry but hopes to avoid U.S.-style capital injections, the island's president said Wednesday. "The plight of the DRAM industry is ...

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• Wipro redeploys some engineering staff to BPO
  John Ribeiro
  Dec 03 2008
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  Indian outsourcer Wipro has decided to assign to its business process outsourcing (BPO) operations some of the software engineers it had promised to hire from college campuses. The move is a ...

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• Danish software company goes bankrupt as CEO disappears
  Computerworld Denmark staff
  Dec 02 2008
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  Danish software company IT Factory has filed for bankruptcy and the CEO, Stein Bagger, has disappeared, wanted by Interpol. IT Factory won several business prizes this year. Financial figures ...

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• Microsoft, Yahoo said to deny search deal
  Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard
  Nov 30 2008
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  The Times of London reported this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks to give Microsoft control of Yahoo's search business for 10 years in a complicated transaction that would put ex-CEO ...

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• Yahoo sells off comparison shopping arm Kelkoo
  Peter Sayer
  Nov 24 2008
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  Yahoo has sold Kelkoo, the European comparison shopping service it bought in 2004 -- at a time when Microsoft is busy adding such features to its own search offering. The sale, to U.K. company ...

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• Citigroup's 52,000 layoffs will impact IT
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  Nov 17 2008
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  Given Citigroup's stated plans, a massive headcount reduction announced today is sure to include a fair share of IT jobs. The financial giant said on Monday it was planning to reduce headcount by a ...

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• Yahoo's Yang to step down as CEO
  Martyn Williams, Nancy Gohring and James Niccolai
  Nov 17 2008
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  After a bungled buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs, Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief executive of the company he ...

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