Microsoft to buy corporate group-chat provider
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Microsoft Corp  agreed to  acquire Parlano, which provides technology to allow companies  to create group chat sessions for employees, and add the  application to its portfolio of communication offerings.
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Microsoft Corp  said on Friday  it has offered to buy Yahoo Inc , the popular Web  portal, for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join  forces against Google Inc  in what would be the biggest  Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger.
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The Washington Post Co. WPO.N said  on Tuesday it would buy Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O online  magazine Slate.
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will buy a small Chicago-based technology company and add its group-chat software to a broad vision for integrated office communications programs.
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent minority equity stake in Facebook in a deal that values the popular social networking Web site at $15 billion.
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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. and conferencing technology maker Polycom Inc. are teaming up to develop ways for people using PCs and other devices to hold virtual meetings with those using more traditional conferencing equipment.
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire a Chicago-based provider of enterprise group chat software to bo...
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a minority equity stake in Facebook in a deal that values the social networking Web site at $15 billion.
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Microsoft Corp  on Friday said  it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc  in a proposed cash  and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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Microsoft Corp on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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NEW YORK/SEATTLE  - Microsoft Corp.  is in talks to buy Tellme Networks Inc., the privately owned voice recognition technology company, two sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp.  is in  talks to buy Tellme Networks Inc., the privately owned voice  recognition technology company, two sources familiar with the  situation said on Tuesday.
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Dell said it will buy MessageOne, which was co-founded by Michael Dellâs brother, for $155 million as it aims to compete with Microsoft and Google.
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Microsoft is in talks to buy a stake in the social networking site Facebook, the Wall Street Journal says.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it will buy privately owned Tellme Networks, a voice  recognition technology company, as it promotes the service for  computer users and customer call centers.
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A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft&#39;s new unified communications software as a hosted service.Intermedia on Tuesday will begin offering Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) as a hosted service on a subscription basis for $7.95 per user, per month, said Rurik Bradbury, vice president of strategy for Intermedia. The service initially will be available to users of Intermedia&#39;s hosted Exchange service, which costs $12 per user, per month. Eventually, the OCS service will be available independently of that service, he said.Intermedia is a SaaS (software as a service) provider in New York and one of Microsoft&#39;s hosting partners. Microsoft also offers Exchange as a hosted service, and eventually plans to offer OCS as a hosted service, but has not specified when. Other Microsoft hosting partners such as USA.net and Apptix also plan to offer OCS on a hosted basis but have not done so thus far.The company is already hosting OCS for some early adopter customers, but the general rollout of the service starts Tuesday, Bradbury said. The service is aimed at SMBs that find it too complicated to install all the software on premise and administer and manage it themselves.&quot;If you think Exchange is difficult to set up for a small business, think about setting up Exchange and OCS,&quot; Bradbury said. &quot;It&#39;s an absolute nightmare for SMBs to do this.&quot;Included in the hosted OCS offering will be private, secure instant messaging and message archiving -- the latter of which is a legal requirement for companies that deal with sensitive information, such as financial services and health care, Bradbury said. The service also offers Web presence integration across Office Communicator, Outlook, and SharePoint, so a user&#39;s free/busy status is available to colleagues across all those services, and PC-to-PC voice and video conferencing.One feature of OCS that isn&#39;t in the first version of the hosted service is integration with a company&#39;s PBX (private branch exchange), but that will be available in a future version, he added.Microsoft launched OCS in October&#160;as the hub of its unified communications strategy, which aims to run a company&#39;s e-mail, instant-messaging, Web-conferencing, videoconferencing, and IP-based telephony services on one software infrastructure. Microsoft and other software providers, such as IBM, as well as traditional networking providers, such as Cisco, are competing in this new convergence space, which used to be primarily the domain of telecommunications providers.Intermedia plans to host its OCS service out of its datacenters in California, where it has three: one in Milpitas, one in San Jose and one in Sunnyvale. The company also has a datacenter in New York.
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Microsoftâs MSN division will be holding a teleconference today at 1 pm EST to announce their newest addition to the MSN network.