If newspapers are suffering a death by 1000 cuts, the next 100 will be made at the New York Times. The company today announced plans to reduce its newsroom staff by eight percent by the end of 2009. Cuts will be made by buyout, but the company will resort to layoffs should its hand be forced.
What’s Sun going to do now? Shares in the company dropped more than 27 percent percent to $6.48 in premarket trading following reports that Sun’s board rejected a formal acquisition offer by IBM. After weeks of negotiations, the two companies were thought to be finalizing a deal for about $7 billion. But IBM lowered its offer over the weekend and then withdrew it after Sun balked at the price and terms of the sale.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And lest there be any doubt that Yahoo’s exploratory search outsourcing alliance with Google is just that, consider this: Yahoo opposed such a partnership on Jan. 30–the day before Microsoft announced its bid for the company.
Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell said last week that “speed is of the essence” in completing a deal to buy Yahoo.
So why is it taking the company so damn long to respond to Yahoo’s latest stonewalling of its advances? Three days have passed since the expiration of Microsoft’s deadline for Yahoo to accept its buyout offer [...]
Boy, that was fast. Yahoo’s limited two-week test of Google’s AdSense for Search service has yielded wondrous results. So wondrous, in fact, that we’re only a week into it and “people familiar with the matter” are already telling The Wall Street Journal that the trial may well lead to a broader outsourcing deal between the two companies.
It’s never wise to take an unsolicited buyer’s first offer. But if Yahoo’s waiting for Microsoft to raise its original $31-a-share bid for the company, it’s going to be waiting a long time. Microsoft (MSFT) may be cash-rich and debt-free enough to pay a 62% premium for a declining Internet major. It may be desperate [...]
Looks like the leveraged-buyout market isn’t as lousy as you’d think. This morning 3Com agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Bain Capital Partners LLC for about $2.2 billion in cash. As part of the deal, which is to close in the first quarter, Chinese networking giant Huawei Technologies will take a minority stake of [...]
Looks like Larry Ellison’s long-suffering accountant won’t have to reach for the Mylanta next time the mercurial CEO maxes out his more-than-a-billion-dollar credit limit. Yesterday Oracle reported surprisingly strong growth in what is traditionally its weakest quarter of the year. The company’s fiscal first-quarter profit grew 25%, easily besting Wall Street analysts’ expectations.
Given the criticism leveled at Vodafone following its failed 2004 bid for AT&T Wireless, it’s of little surpise that the company is vehemently denying reports that have it mulling a $160 billion offer for Verizon Communications.
Vodafone claims it has “no plans” to make such an offer. But as Sony president Ryoji Chubachi can [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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