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Temasek Bought $600 Million Merrill Shares in February
by Saeed Azhar - BNet.com
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore state investor Temasek (TEM) exercised an option to buy an additional $600 million worth of Merrill Lynch (MER) shares in February, raising its investment in the U.S. bank to $5 billion, the sovereign wealth fund said […]
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Yahoo lukewarm on Microsoft bid
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Internet search engine Yahoo says it is “not opposed” to Microsoft’s takeover bid, but wants a better price.
The letter from Yahoo’s board was a swift response to a deadline issued at the weekend by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to agree to the deal.
Microsoft warned if […]
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AMD Lineup for GPU, CPU and Notebook Platforms Revealed
By Monica Chen, Joseph Tsai
DigiTimes.com - AMD has recently notified its partners that the company expects its share in the discrete graphics card market to rise after its next generation RV770 GPU shows up in the end of the second quarter, growing from the current 35% to reach 50% by the end of this year, […]
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Microsoft will not rush Yahoo merger says exec: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp would not rush to merge its technology platform with Yahoo Inc’s after a takeover of the Internet company, according to the Financial Times, citing an interview with Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie.
Ozzie described technology companies that rush to merge things together as “reckless”, according to the paper.
The paper […]
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Sony-Sharp 10G joint venture to change the LCD industry, says Displaybank
On February 26, Sharp and Sony signed a non-binding memorandum of intent to establish a joint venture for producing and selling large LCD panels and modules. This is an initial sign that the long-term competitive structure between Korea and Japan will shift from Samsung and Sony versus Sharp, to Samsung versus Sony and Sharp.
Samsung […]
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