Microsoft Buy Stake in Chinese TV Maker
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By JOE McDONALD  BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. and a major Chinese TV set maker announced Monday they will jointly develop entertainment products linking television and the Internet, joining a race to profit from the Web's growing status as a channel to distribute movies and other programs.
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NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. , lagging behind Google Inc. in the online advertising market, is in talks to purchase a stake of as much as 5 percent in social-networking site Facebook Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived.
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TELEVISION has been something of a great white whale for the Microsoft Corporation. The company has tried to sell WebTV and build software for TV&#39;s and cable boxes.
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"We see enormous potential for growth in Germany and believe the time is right to invest in its foremost pay-TV business, Premiere"  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has returned to the German TV market by buying a near-15 percent stake in the country's largest pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere PREGn.DE, for 287 million euros . via Reuters
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Business & money: Murdoch group acquires 14.6% stake in Premiere, five years after losing Â£1bn on the German pay-TV operator
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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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BREAKING NEWS - This afternoon, Microsoft won the apparent battle for an equity stake in social networking applications provider Facebook, making a $240 million equity investment in the company. In exchange, Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party supplier of Facebook's advertising platform.
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ExcelStor, owned by the Chinese government, is being acquired in a stock deal.
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US software giant Microsoft agreed Tuesday to set up a joint venture with two South Korean firms for a foray into the country's nascent Internet TV market, officials said.
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China's largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), said on Wednesday it is buying control of IBM's PC-making business for &#36;1.25 billion, capping the U.S. tech giant's gradual withdrawal from the business it helped pioneer in 1981.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft will display paid search listings from Baidu.comÂ among the search results of certain Microsoft Web sites, the companies announced on Thursday. Baidu, which operates China's most popular search engine, will have paid search listings on MSN, Windows Live, and other partner Web sites in China. Baidu battles Google in China, although not necessarily in the same areas.Â Baidu goes head to head with Google in searchÂ and has the biggest share of China's search market, but its reach is limited by its focus on Chinese-language searching. It has attempted to compete against its rivals through deals with major international players. In October, Viacom's MTV Networks and Nickelodeon said it will make 15,000 hours of theirÂ content available in China via Baidu Web site. That included both English and Chinese-language programs, including Nickelodeon's "Sponge Bob Square Pants" and MTV's "Pimp My Ride," along with programs produced locally for Chinese audiences. Viacom does, however, have similar arrangements with Google and AOL. Financial terms of the deal with Microsoft were not disclosed.
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BEIJING -- China&#39;s biggest computer maker said it has acquired a majority stake in IBM&#39;s personal computer business for $1.75 billion dollars in one of the biggest Chinese overseas acquisitions ever.
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch  has returned to the German TV market by buying a near-15  percent stake in the country's largest pay-TV broadcaster,  Premiere, for 287 million euros ($421.6 million).
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Microsoft Corp has offered to buy  Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer  for 19 crowns per share, valuing the company at about $1.2  billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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China's biggest bank is buying a 20% stake in South Africa's largest lender for $5.5bn.
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BEIJING - China&#39;s largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd, announced on Wednesday that it is buying control of IBM&#39;s PC-making business for US$1.25 billion, capping the US tech giant&#39;s gradual withdrawal from the business it helped pioneer in