Microsoft bids $1.2 billion for Norway's Fast
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U.S. software giant Microsoft  said on Tuesday it would bid 19 crowns per share for Norwegian Internet search software firm Fast Search & Transfer , valuing the company at about $1.2 billion.
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Microsoft Corp  has bid 19 crowns  per share for Norwegian Internet search software firm Fast  Search & Transfer , valuing the company at about $1.2  billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.
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Telecommunications equipment  maker Ericsson AB (ERICb.ST) will buy data networking  equipment vendor Redback Networks Inc.  for $2.1  billion in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Executives with Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have disclosed that a 2-year-old partnership created to promote the use of .Net for Web services has resulted in the installation of 1,000 .
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SBC Communications, the No. 2 US telecommunications company, has agreed to pay $400 million to Microsoft Corp. for software that can deliver television via high-speed data lines, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp   offered to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion, in a bold  bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy  competitor for market leader Google Inc .
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Microsoft Corp  said on Monday  that it controls 92.6 percent of Norwegian search software firm  Fast Search & Transfer , and extended its takeover  offer to Thursday from a Friday deadline.
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Microsoft Corp  said on Monday that it controls 92.6 percent of Norwegian search software firm Fast Search &amp; Transfer , and extended its takeover offer to Thursday from a Friday deadline.
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Microsoft said Friday it had offered to buy struggling Internet firm Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars (30.0 billion euros) in a bid to take on Google in the crucial battle for online revenues.
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Microsoft said its planned $1.2 billion acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, or FAST, will give it a full-fledged enterprise search product line that can scale to billions of documents.
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Microsoft is to form multi-million pound partnerships with two Indian software firms, and is expected to double the 1,500 people it already employs in India.
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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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F*ck! me! Microsoft has made a $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo!.â¦
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Microsoft Corp beat out rival Google Inc on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a roughly 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon and expand a deal to sell advertising.
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Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner ($153 million) in cash. Nokia hopes the Trolltech development team will give its own software efforts a boost.