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News Burst: Expedia May Start Microsoft Spin-off Phase
News If Expedia's success is any indicator, you'll be seeing a lot more spin-offs from Microsoft. It's no surprise shareholders gave Microsoft a standing ovation Wednesday -- shares are stuck in a holding pattern and the company still brings home the...
[November 11, 1999, 15:30]
Motorola To Spin Off Handset Division
News Subject to "further financial, tax and legal analysis", the American communications giant will next year spin off its mobile-devices business as an independent, publicly traded company, which will take with it a range of technology and...
[March 26, 2008, 12:00]
Billion-Dollar Financial Services Company Creates A Successful Spin-Off And Saves More Than $500,000 With A Novell Solution
White Papers In preparation to spin off its Florida operations into a public company, F.N.B.needed to create separate IT infrastructure. F.N.B. Corporation is a $6 billion diversified financial services company. The company needed to split its network of 3,000...
[May 19, 2006, 0:00]
Intel Creates Spin-off Solar-cell Company
News Intel made a big leap into the burgeoning clean-tech sector on Monday by creating SpectraWatt, a spin-off company that will manufacture solar cells. Its investment arm, Intel Capital, is leading a $50m (£25m) round in SpectraWatt.
[June 17, 2008, 8:30]
Quantum Cancels Snap Server Spin-off
News An unappealing investment market has led storage specialist Quantum to cancel its plan to spin off its Snap server division. Quantum had hoped in October to spin off Snap in an initial public offering as part of a plan to remake the company.
[June 14, 2001, 9:27]
Union Takes BT Spin-off Row To Government
News The CWU believes that jobs are likely to be lost if BT continues with its plans to spin off its mobile division, which the company has just announced will be renamed "MMO2". It said on Friday that the process was well advanced, and insisted that...
[September 3, 2001, 13:05]
Microsoft Spin-off Debuts 'snack-sized' Browsing
News A Microsoft spin-off company has released a beta version of a new mobile application which it claims will deliver targeted content in a new way. Zumobi — until Tuesday known as ZenZui — made its debut at a Cellular Telecommunications and Internet...
[November 13, 2007, 15:24]
Xerox To Spin Off "electric Paper" Division
News Troubled copy giant Xerox plans to spin off Gyricon Media, a division that has developed "electric paper" technology that displays text and graphics like a computer screen. Shares of the venerable copier company have fallen 79 percent this year...
[December 8, 2000, 6:05]
3Com To Spin Off Palm Unit
News 3Com said Monday it will spin off its Palm Computing unit as an independent company. Analysts have been pushing for a spin-off for months as 3Com has struggled amid growing competition. Com said it will launch an initial public offering (IPO) for...
[September 13, 1999, 14:05]
Expedia May Start Spin-off Phase For Microsoft
News The company made a nice chunk of change by selling the Sidewalk local guides to Ticketmaster-CitySearch and should continue going the spin-off/sale route. MSN on the Web would make a nice spin-off and could command a Yahoo!
[November 11, 1999, 15:54]
Microsoft To Spin Off Expedia In IPO
News Microsoft announced Thursday that it would spin off its online travel service site Expedia in an initial public offering valued at $75m (£47m) later this year. Microsoft shares were off 2 7/16 to 93 5/8 Thursday afternoon.
[September 24, 1999, 8:49]
Compaq To Spin Off AltaVista
News Digital dropped plans to spin off the division in 1997, deciding to focus on the business opportunities and to expand its role as a "portal," adding content channels and other amenities. Compaq senior vice president Rod Schrock will become CEO of...
[January 26, 1999, 14:23]
Motorola Urged To Speed Up Handset Unit Spin-off
News Motorola's plans to split itself into two publicly traded companies will be a big relief for investors, according to research firm Ovum. The split will spawn two separate entities: one company will handle handsets and accessories, while the other...
[March 28, 2008, 7:53]
Motorola To Spin Off Chip Unit
News Motorola's chipmaking unit, temporarily named SPS Spinco, plans to sell up to $2bn (£1.14bn) in stock during an initial public offering, according to a filing made Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
[December 18, 2003, 15:10]
Motorola May Spin Off Mobile-phone Unit
News The question is: if you sell off the handset business, what's left? The company, which practically invented the mobile-phone market in the 1980s, is considering spinning off its beleaguered handset business in an effort to revive itself, Motorola...
[February 1, 2008, 8:39]
Shareholders Give Thumbs-up To BT Wireless Spin-off
News A total of 4.3 billion BT shares were cast in favour of spinning-off mmO2, with a mere 670,000 shares against. BT announced on Tuesday afternoon that its shareholders had voted overwhelmingly in favour of floating its wireless operations on the...
[October 23, 2001, 16:26]
Palm To Separate OS Business
News But it could still be a precursor to a spin-off. Thomas Sepenzis, a CIBC World Markets analyst, countered Somsak's assertion that there are no plans for a spin-off. Why would you create a subsidiary if you aren't planning to spin the business off?
[July 30, 2001, 9:32]
MP3 Karaoke Player Hits The Market
News A Motorola spin-off on Tuesday unveiled an MP3 player that lets you become a lead singer. The Irock 680 player from Motorola spin-off First International Digital will begin shipping during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts...
[January 3, 2001, 8:03]
Palm Shareholders Set For Split
News Shareholders of handheld pioneer Palm will vote on Tuesday on the acquisition of rival Handspring and the spin off of Palm's software division, as the company looks to split up in an effort to revitalise the handheld device market.
[October 28, 2003, 11:00]
The Day Ahead: Genuity's Big Float Sinks Shares
News Genuity, the Internet backbone spin-off from Verizon, raises $1.9bn in the largest Internet IPO and flops on its first day. Genuity had to go public because the government made the Genuity spin-off a condition for GTE and Bell Atlantic merger...
[August 2, 2000, 13:05]
