Oracle’s Acquisitions over the years

23 Apr, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Software, Tech
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Oracle, big boy of the Database world. There’s no enterprise in the world today that does not know or use Oracle products in some way.

Their strategy over years has been to acquire their competitors to retain market share. Siebel (CRM), Innobase (InnoDB), PeopleSoft just to name a few.

Oracle has a full page dedicated to it’s acquisitions. It’s a good read  Go there now.

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo

2 Feb, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Tech
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Google does it again. This time forcing Yahoo to consider Microsoft’s offer to acquire Yahoo for $44.6bn.

Yahoo, Google’s main competitor has been struggling for the past years trying to compete with Google. Yahoo needs to spend 300mil to revive itself based on the latest revenue forecast which may result in a 1000 staff lay off.

Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo last year but was declined by Yahoo being confident it will recover. A year later Microsoft sees that window open again. Continue Reading ->