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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]
News Burst: CMGi In Talks To Buy AltaVista
News A deal could be announced as early as Thursday, according to people familiar with the situation, though talks could still break down. Full story to follow
[June 23, 1999, 16:16]
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]
Ericsson 'in Talks To Buy Marconi'
News Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson is in takeover talks with British rival Marconi, according to reports. Marconi is effectively up for sale, having failed to secure a contract to provide the intelligence for BT's 21st Century Network (21CN).
[October 10, 2005, 9:45]
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]
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]
Lycos CEO Says No New Talks
News Speaking at the Massachusetts Software Council, Davis said that Lycos has been in discussions with possible partners for over two years but no new talks had been initiated as a result of recent mergers involving portal competitors.
[January 25, 1999, 14:00]
Oracle Talks Up Linux Prospects
News Oracle talks up Linux prospects Over half its customers will be using Linux within five years, attracted by the greater predictability and adherence to standards, according to Oracle's co-president Within the next five years, half of Oracle's...
[August 10, 2005, 15:10]
Marconi In Takeover Talks
News Shares in Marconi rose sharply on Monday morning after the UK telecoms manufacturer confirmed it is in talks about a possible merger or acquisition. In a statement, Marconi said it was in "discussions with third parties about potential business...
[August 8, 2005, 11:50]
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]
CallNet Reconnected After Emergency Talks
News Beleaguered unmetered pioneer CallNet is set to get up and running again after holding emergency talks with teleco Cable & Wireless, which has agreed to reconnect the ISP having reached a "commercial agreement".
[September 14, 2000, 17:11]
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]
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 And Yahoo Execs 'held Takeover Talks'
News Yahoo has held talks with News Corp and Time Warner's AOL, other sources told Reuters earlier. Senior executives from Microsoft and Yahoo met on Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover bid for the company, according to two people familiar with the...
[March 17, 2008, 7:50]
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]
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]
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]
Operators In Talks Over Dual-mode Nokia Handset
News Nokia is in talks with a number of UK operators who are looking at rolling out its "dual-mode" GSM/Wi-Fi phones, a spokesperson for the Finnish handset giant has revealed to ZDNet UK. Nokia was unable to name which operators are in talks over the...
[July 28, 2006, 14:00]
Yahoo! And EBay Talks Reported Dead
News held talks about possible partnerships, but the discussions between the two companies -- which had been of a preliminary nature -- ended last week, according to a published report.eBay shares surged in late trading on Tuesday after CNBC reported...
[March 15, 2000, 15:30]
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]
