Deals

Microsoft needs to come up with a better offer if it hopes to win Yahoo's acceptance of its unsolicited takeover bid, Yahoo's second-largest shareholder said on Sunday. "It has been reported that Microsoft has been discussing a combination with Yahoo for well over a year, and that it had been prepar...

Dell has added another member to its growing family of acquisitions, although this latest addition already had the Dell pedigree, in a sense. The computer maker agreed to buy e-mail services provider MessageOne for about $155 million in cash. The addition of MessageOne is largely an all-in-the-famil...

The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft. According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evalu...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

Microsoft has made a bid for Danger, the mobile software and services provider that designed one of the slickest devices on the market: the T-Mobile Sidekick. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web-browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and pe...

Sony Ericsson has debuted a new handset, the Xperia X1 -- its first to operate on the Windows Mobile operating system. Microsoft announced the collaboration as the Mobile World Congress got under way in Barcelona, Spain. The deal could be a major coup for Sony Ericsson, which holds a 50 percent stak...

Yahoo's board of directors has unanimously voted that Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid is "not in the best interests" of the Web portal, a widely expected move that could put pressure on Redmond to beef up its $44.6 billion offer. Yahoo's board met over the weekend to consider the $31 per share ...

Despite its problems, Yahoo is playing it cool when it comes to Microsoft's bid of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, even though the offer was 62 percent higher than its Jan. 31 closing price of $19.18 a share. Yahoo is "thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives," CEO Jer...

Amid solid earnings that hit analysts' marks, Time Warner announced on Wednesday that it would radically restructure -- and possibly sell off part of -- its AOL Internet service provider division, ending a tumultuous experiment between the old and new media stalwarts. Overall, the Time Warner's reve...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

Graphics card maker Nvidia announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Ageia, creator of PhysX, technology that adds a higher level of real-world physics realism to video games. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. All major consoles -- the Sony PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii, and the Mi...