If you have trouble viewing the above video, please click here to view MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT’s recent search ads proposal would split YAHOO’s assets and fracture the company. The deal would break up Yahoo’s Asian assets and give Microsoft a minority share in what was left of Yahoo. Yahoo executives are weary of the Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube Read my commentary on China’s copyright-free tech world on the blog. MICROSOFT is looking to revive a deal with YAHOO. However, the transaction is likely not be a total acquisition, rather a deal that could bring Microsoft search ads alongside Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube CARL ICAHN is launching a proxy contest to replace YAHOO’s board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive FRANK BIONDI. Icahn’s board will push to reopen negotiations with MICROSOFT, however, sources say Icahn Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube WiMax and the future of broadband. Check out my commentary on the blog. NBC will officially name Jimmy Fallon as the future host of Late Night. Fallon will takeover for Conan O’Brien beginning June of 2009, when O’Brien will begin Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube MICROSOFT informally approached FACEBOOK about a possible merger. A meeting with the social networking site comes just days after Microsoft backed away from its bid to secure YAHOO. Like the failed Yahoo bid, a merger with Facebook would seriously improve Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SPRINT, COMCAST, GOOGLE, TIME WARNER and INTEL will team to invest in WIMAX. The unlikely alliance is set to invest $3.2 billion in WiMax, a wireless broadband technology that is likely to supercede 3G in a few years. If the Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YAHOO’s stock plunged nearly 15% Monday. Major shareholders are furious with CEO Jerry Yang, whom they believe was bias against selling the company he co-founded in 1995. With majority stockholders angry and Yang still open to a deal with Microsoft, Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT increased it’s bid for YAHOO from $31 to $32 and change. Yahoo still wants $37 a share, however, with the price within $4, it is likely a deal could come sometime soon. With progress being made, sources say a Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The MICROSOFT-YAHOO deadline passed in utter silence. Now what? Yesterday, Mortimer Zuckerman of THE DAILY NEWS matched Rupert Murdoch’s $580M bid for NEWSDAY. The New York newspaper man believes his bid will be more attractive for the THE TRIBUNE COMPANY Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT was not impressed with YAHOO’s earnings call yesterday. A source close to Microsoft is quoted as saying, “Isn’t this the same earnings and growth that got them to $19 per share in January?” Jerry Yang’s position, and I quote: Continue Reading →