Just two days after walking away from its $49.6 billion bid for Yahoo, the Times Online U.K. is reporting that Microsoft is meeting with Time Warner executives regarding a possible bid for America Online -- the very company Yahoo turned to in a possible attempt to stave off the takeover bid from Redmond.
Citing a hefty price tag and other concerns, Microsoft this weekend officially scrapped its plans to acquire Yahoo.
Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotiating to seal a deal.
Leaks from unnamed sources to The Wall Street Journal constitute the only "news" so far this week about Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo.
A sample of one week's newly discovered vulnerabilities can keep hackers busy and security experts on their toes.
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008
According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites. Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
"Greyhound" comes to a screeching halt in the virtual world.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/28/2008
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2008
Plus, tracking sand out of JRE apps; greeting card hacks; RealPlayer BOV
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
Team Sparx takes away top honor and trip to global final in Paris in July.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/22/2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
Microsoft revealed "Albany," a consumer-oriented hosted service that provides Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications, plus security and collaboration tools.
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/10/2008