Novell today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation acquires Novell for $ 6.10 per share (about 9% more compared to the price of last Friday) in cash in a transaction valued at a total of about 2 , $ 2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by a [...]

For the first time Apple's market capitalization has exceeded the market capitalization of Microsoft. The capitalization of Apple has achieved in the session on Wall Street on Wednesday, in which the title has lost 1 .1%, and 222.1 billion dollars. The capitalization of Microsoft in the same session, in which the title has [...]

Microsoft released yesterday by the eighth edition of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR), the safety report. The report (which you can download from this page) consider in particular the second half of 2009, and is based on data from more than 26 countries. The data were collected, with the consent of users, from [...]

Microsoft and Nokia have reached an agreement whereby the two companies will immediately start the collaboration on the design, development and marketing of mobile productivity solutions for the professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and other Microsoft software for communication, collaboration and device management Symbian on Nokia devices. These solutions will be [...]

Eventually Microsoft has managed to reach an agreement with Yahoo!. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz announced last week, reaching a ten-year agreement. The partnership agreement states that Microsoft will provide search technology to search engines Bing and two [...]

Google continues to be the most used search engine in the U.S.. According to the analysis of Comscore in June 65% of web searches are done through Google, the same rate in May, Yahoo! is still in second place with 19.6% of the research, since a decrease of 0.5% compared to May, to follow the [...]

Microsoft closes in red in 2009. With the close of the fiscal fourth quarter earnings achieved in 2009 came to 3.05 billion dollars, as much as 29% less than last year. The turnover in 2009 was about 13.10 billion U.S. dollars, down 17% over the previous year. These results [...]

In the long standoff in which she contrasted with the European Commission as regards the integration of Internet Explorer in Windows 7 Microsoft has put forward a new proposal is now before the Commission. The proposal states that the copies of Microsoft Windows 7 sold in Europe there is a "ballot screen" through which [...]

Comscore has released its monthly analysis (for the month of May 2009) Research on the Web in the United States. This analysis has not reserved any particular surprise with regard to market share in web search. Google is always the search engine by far the most used with 65% (+0.8% compared [...]

In the first weeks of life Bing seems to have improved the results of its predecessor, Live Search in terms of market share. According to a Comscore report Bing has increased its U.S. market share previously held by Live Search, passing from 9.1% last week of life Live Search to 11 .3% of the first week [...]