Microsoft’s Ballmer and Yahoo’s Yang are pointing fingers at each other, blaming the other for the failed merger. With Yahoo’s stock dropping some 14% ($4.30 per share), Yang told Reuters today: We were negotiating a way to find common ground and then on Saturday they chose to walk away… They started it and they walked away. Ballmer stated on Saturday with his letter withdrawing the bid, he was disappointed that Yahoo! would not accept their $33 per share offer up from the initial $31 per share offer from back in January: In our conversations this week, we conveyed our willingness…
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Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 11 blockers left on the front end 3 to be patched 2 Places bugs, ETA today Fx3 credits, waiting on last call, will be closed out today. See mconnor’s blog post for the last call for nominations, please _email_ nominations to mconnor by EOD. 27 fixed in the last week Gecko 1.9 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th Builds start:…
Today is the first business day since Yahoo! rejected Microsoft’s final offer. Yahoo’s stock dropped $5.65 per share to $23.02 when the markets opened this morning. Currently it has recovered slightly and been hovering around $24.50 per share. Microsoft on the other hand saw a very slight increase (71¢ per share) in their stock price with an opening of $29.95 per share. Currently the stock price has been around $29.80 per share. Besides how low Yahoo’s stock can drop it will also be interesting to see what happens with Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang. One has to wonder if he has…
Todd Bishop has put together a time line of the Microsoft/Yahoo! events of the past 3 months. This includes several ‘secret’ meetings between Microsoft & Yahoo! as well as the public milestones. Timeline: Microsoft’s secret Yahoo meetings
According to the Associated Press, Microsoft has given up and is walking away from the deal to buy-out Yahoo. Check back for any developments. UPDATED 5:20 PM PDT: C|Net has confirmed it is over between Microsoft & Yahoo: In a letter to Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft was willing to offer $33 a share, but that Yahoo was holding out for at least $37 a share, or $5 billion more than Microsoft was prepared to spend. In the letter, Ballmer also says he is ruling out a direct offer to shareholders. “After careful consideration,…
Vote and see the results of the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Poll: What should Microsoft do with its Yahoo bid? The choices: Raise the offer to make a deal or bring Yahoo to the table Keep the offer as is and attempt a hostile takeover Lower the price and attempt a hostile takeover Withdraw the offer temporarily and try to revive it later Walk away from the deal entirely. News Source: Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
It has been nearly a week since Microsoft’s deadline for Yahoo! to accept their merger offer has passed. There had been indications that Microsoft would simply walk away from the deal. But then on Wednesday, it was reported the Microsoft Board was meeting about the possible acquisition. Then late Thursday there was the possibly Microsoft was going to attempt a hostile take over. Today the New York Times is reporting Microsoft and Yahoo are in active merger talks. According to an anonymous source involved in the discussion: Microsoft, which had threatened to abandon its bid, has increased its offer “by…
The addons.mozilla.org (AMO) site was updated to version 3.4.1 earlier this week. Some of the more notable updates/fixes in this AMO release include: Added back the application compatibility ranges on the add-on details pages (example: Works with: Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 pre) Due to popular demand, we’ve separated Themes from Appearance-related extensions and Dictionaries & Language Packs from “Language Support” extensions. So, there are a few more categories that appear on the left-hand side menu. Increased the default add-on list size from 10 to 20 Adding back the application compatibility ranges is a much needed fixed. I had discussed the…
As mentioned in the Weekly Update 2008-04-28, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is to be released today. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes.
As mentioned in the Weekly Update 2008-04-28, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is to be released today. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes.