CNET Calls JANA’s Proposal ‘Improper’
CNet Networks responded to hedge fund JANA Partners’ aggressive proposal to takeover the company upon acquiring a majority of shares in the company. CNet called JANA’s proposal "improper" and indicated that a takeover would not add value for stockholders. JANA Partners issued an announcement this morning and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission its [...]
Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation [...]
Google Eager To Please European Regulators
The company’s DoubleClick deal hit an unexpected snag when European Commission members decided to draw out their review to April 2008. Neelie Kroes and her fellow Competition regulators on the EC must have missed the relentlessly positive post Google put up, showing why their DoubleClick acquisition shouldn’t be any problem to anyone. Kroes said competition, [...]
Google Finance Talks To China (But Not U.S.)
Google Finance recently gained the ability to share real-time stock quotes from China, and it’s rather proud of this fact. Also, in the event you’re wondering why we don’t get real-time quotes from within the U.S., Google says it’s all the SEC’s fault. I think I like Katie Jacobs Stanton, the group product manager who [...]
BEA Flips Off Oracle Offer
A 25 percent premium for BEA in an all-cash offer from Oracle elicited a mild chuckle from BEA’s VP of business planning and development, William Klein.$6.66 billion won’t be enough to yank BEA into the Oracle fold. After Oracle made an offer to BEA today, Klein responded with a polite letter that likely concealed a [...]
LookSmart CTO Follows CEO Out Door
I’d be surprised to see a single boulder fall; one would expect some other rocks to accompany it. And now, in a business sense, that expectation has come true; about five weeks after LookSmart’s CEO resigned, the company’s CTO has followed suit. 41-year-old Michael Grubb left for “personal reasons,” according to an SEC form provided [...]
Google Putting The Squeeze On VCs
Google’s not making as many friends as it used to. The latest group to sour a bit on the company are venture capitalists. Of course, business isn’t really about making friends, but that hasn’t stopped VCs from complaining that Google swallowing up prime acquisitions. So are other major corporations, for that matter, but BusinessWeek picked [...]
Google Challenged On Patent Reform Stance
The latest contribution to the Google Public Policy blog, on the topic of patent reform and Google’s stance, received a pointed rebuttal from a Brookings Institution guest scholar.Google would like the current patent system fixed. They plan to chat with members and staffers of the House of Representatives about their views of a system Google [...]
Scoble Predicts Google Death By Facebook
Notify the SEC. Analyst blogger Robert Scoble predicts the demise of Google within four years. He boldly outlines a Future Search engine combination of Facebook-Techmeme-Mahalo technology that will spell doom for Google. The Naked Conversationalist has become the Naked Shorter. In a video worthy of the best linkbait, Scoble predicts SEOs — those reviled search [...]
Google Lawyer Settles With SEC
David Drummond will pay the Securities and Exchange Commission almost $700,000 to settle their claims against him stemming from his work with a technology training firm.We used to call this “no blood, no foul” when we played basketball on the playground. Drummond will pay the SEC and admit no wrongdoing with regards to claims he [...]
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