Electronic Arts wants to get a piece of Take Two’s successful Grand Theft Auto. This follows on the heals of Vivendi merger with Activision. Under the deal Electronic Arts would pay $26 per share about a 50% premium from its closing share price on Friday.
Detroit's police and fire department retirement system as well as the city's general retirement system filed suit against Yahoo! Inc. for rejecting the Microosft bid and in doing so, says the suite, acted against the fiduciary interests of shareholders.
If you’ve ever used the thinkorswim desktop platform, you may have noticed the little ‘Spread Hacker’ tab in the software. This isn’t a feature that gets talked about much, but it’s fun to play around with. While this may or may not be the original intent of the feature, it’s especially useful for generating slightly wacky ideas that you might not otherwise have considered.
Alibaba management has concerns about how the Chinese government would view a combination of Microsoft and Yahoo if the software giant’s bid for the U.S. Internet company is successful.
Excerpt from the article says it best: "There’s been so much commentary on the proposed mega merger, it borders on overwhelming. Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo. While I wait, one wonder keeps hitting me: is Microsoft’s collective head in the cloud?
According to The Wall Street Journal, News Corp. and Yahoo are in talks about combining MySpace and other News Corp.-owned online properties with Yahoo, in a move aimed at fending off Microsoft's takeover bid.
Earlier this morning, TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider weighed in.
Peter Kafka of Alley Insider breaks out the details:
