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Ballmer holds surprise talks with EU commissioner
Talkback Suprise talks indeed what you mean is yet another get out of jail free bung in the back pocket (anyone want to try and prove me wrong by the way ) It is high time we became an closed area to people like Ballmer he is totaly persona non grata one...
[March 18, 2004, 15:09]
AOL and Freeserve laywers in talks
News However, lawyers for both sides are today in talks and an AOL spokeswoman says the company is hopeful of an "early resolution" of the dispute. Freeserve claims support staff from AOL's subsidiary CompuServe, told people cancelling their CompuServe...
[April 19, 1999, 12:07]
A Year Ago Today: Easynet, UK Online in merger talks
News The talks concern the possibility of co-operation or merger or acquisition in light of current consolidation in the Internet industry. European Internet access provider Easynet today announced it is in merger discussions with UK Online.
[October 10, 1997, 9:15]
Government denies allegations of secret 3G talks
News A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said on Monday that while e-minister Patricia Hewitt met regularly with mobile phone companies, suggestions that she was conducting confidential talks over 3G were false.
[March 19, 2001, 11:53]
AOL, Microsoft dissolve Windows XP talks
News Sources close to the negotiations painted differing pictures for the cause of the talks' collapse. But another discussion source insisted the messaging issue had been put aside for a later time and had little or no effect on the talks' ending.
[June 18, 2001, 10:10]
Easynet, UK Online in merger talks
News The talks concern the possibility of co-operation or merger or acquisition in light of current consolidation in the Internet industry. In a prepared statement to the London Stock Exchange, the company said it is: "in discussions with.
[October 10, 1996, 15:47]
Microsoft in talks over Windows 7 broadband bundles
News Speaking to ZDNet UK at Microsoft's Growth and Innovation Day in Brussels on Thursday, Neil Holloway, vice president for business strategy at Microsoft International, said the company was in talks with telecoms companies and other service...
[March 5, 2009, 12:30]
MS plans settlement talks with DoJ
News According to US reports Microsoft Corp.plans to begin settlement talks with the Justice Department and 19 states, in a bid to end the federal antitrust trial. The report comes as Microsoft prepares to go back to court, after suffering several...
[March 22, 1999, 14:26]
Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks over disk businesses
News Toshiba and Fujitsu broke their silence on Thursday and acknowledged they were in talks about the future of their disk-drive businesses, but would not confirm whether they were discussing combining the two businesses into a single operation.
[January 15, 2009, 14:17]
Microsoft exec talks patent politics
News Microsoft talks about choice between Open XML and other open standards like ODF, but surely you build products on top of a standard and compete at product level, rather than competing at a standards level?
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
HP in talks to acquire PwC consulting
News Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in a cash and stock deal worth $17bn to $18bn (£11.96bn to £12.67bn). HP said in a release Monday that it still has significant issues to work about before a deal...
[September 11, 2000, 12:48]
Ballmer talks EU, economy and virtualisation
News In an interview with CNET News.com's Ina Fried, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks about Windows Server 2008, as well as relations with Brussels.
[February 28, 2008, 14:58]
Yahoo CEO: Microsoft search-deal talks ongoing
News Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said on Wednesday that her company continues to have talks with Microsoft on a search deal and indicated a willingness to sell. The prerequisites, she said, are the right price, a technology she believes in, and...
[May 28, 2009, 12:33]
Police in talks over pocket PC-crime detection tool
News Police are in talks with companies about deploying a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs, aiming for it to be as easy to use as a breathalyser. Officers in the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) e-crime group are looking...
[June 4, 2009, 8:37]
Microsoft, Yahoo in talks with EC about search deal
News These jurisdictional issues are being discussed in ongoing talks that Microsoft and Yahoo have been having with Commission officials, which were the subject of a Reuters report, according to Evans. Representatives from Microsoft and Yahoo have...
[September 17, 2009, 9:51]
Government continues to deny secret 3G talks
News We have not been approached by the 3G licence holders to talk about these matters, although we're obviously in regular talks with them over a range of issues," a DTI spokeswoman told ZDNet on Monday. Officials at the Department of Trade and...
[April 24, 2001, 8:38]
Report: Orange and Apple in MacBook bundle talks
Blog The mobile operator Orange is reportedly in talks with Apple, with a view towards bundling MacBooks with mobile broadband. According to Mobile, the deal would make it possible for customers to get a heavily discounted Mac, along with a 3G dongle...
[March 26, 2009, 14:20]
Dutch government's Microsoft talks collapse
News Microsoft said on Thursday that the talks failed because neither party could agree on the number of contracts needed. Negotiations between Microsoft and the Dutch government over a potential deal worth €147m to upgrade 245,000 computers have fallen...
[December 23, 2004, 16:10]
Gameplay in take-over talks
News Gameplay announced on Monday that has received an offer for "some or all" of the group, and was in talks with at least one unnamed company. In February, Cisco Systems, the number one maker of networking equipment for the Internet, was in talks with...
[May 1, 2001, 10:36]
Video: Cisco CEO talks up Web 2.0
News At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Cisco chief executive John Chambers talks about the need for businesses to increase productivity by implementing Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, mashups and virtual conferencing.
[May 30, 2007, 17:29]
