Microsoft losing acquisition playmaker
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Bruce Jaffe, who spearheaded the software giant's acquisitions activity, will leave the company in February.
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Malcolm Glazer&#39;s attempt to buy Manchester United was in chaos last night as JP Morgan, his main financial backer and City adviser, dropped him as a client.
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Microsoft Corp. plans to concentrate on acquisitions valued at between $50 million and $1 billion over the next five years, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the Web 2.0 Summit.
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Without much explanation, Microsoft's PlaysForSure Web page, which had once been the meeting ground for its portable media tech partners, now bears a statement to users that the logo is being dropped.
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Announced one year ago at 3GSM in Barcelona, PlayReady is Microsoft's DRM solution for mobile content providers. Now one year later, more partners have announced planned deployments...but it has seen no rollouts yet.
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Company says software giant excluded app from market, but Microsoft says Novell's mismanagement caused WordPerfect to lose favor with consumers.
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LISBON - Customers watching for Microsoft Corp. to make a headline-grabbing buy in the business applications market faced disappointment Tuesday as company Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer ruled out acquisitions of PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.
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Microsoft reportedly has sold a development studio that makes its sports video games, the second time in recent months that the company has sold off a game-development operation, effectively changing the gaming industry landscape.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft won't participate in the January spectrum auction; it will leave the role of buying spectrum to service providers.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. may make more large acquisitions than it has done historically and become a more distributed company rather than moving key employees to its Redmond, Wash
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company&#160;bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search &amp; Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.
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For Google, buying a piece of Facebook would have been, well, nice. But for Microsoft, sealing the deal was an absolute necessity.
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Leeds today confirmed negotiations for the takeover of the American-backed consortium led by Sebastian Sainsbury have ended - and that Elland Road is to be sold under a sale and lease back deal.
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Stocks to watch on Friday: MICROSOFT CORP. : The world's largest software maker will suffer serious harm if it is forced to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player audio-visual software, its lawyer told a European Union court.
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The latest rumor to sweep the world of high tech claims that Microsoft has its eyes on eBay for a possible buyout. Last week, a report in the New York Post said that Microsoft has engaged in preliminary talks with eBay about acquiring the online auction company and merging it with MSN.
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OSLO/LAS VEGAS  - Microsoft Corp  bid $1.2  billion to buy Norwegian business search software company Fast  Search & Transfer  in a deal focused on helping  corporations manage and sift through their own files, a growing  market also targeted by Google Inc .
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Last week's stock declines apparently cost Microsoft's founder a few million dollars.