Cadence Takes a Page Out of Microsoft’s Playbook

With the Microsoft-Yahoo! drama fresh on everyone’s mind, Mike Fister and the Cadence board have finally done something that shows a bit of boldness, some imagination, and possibly some courage. Cadence has made a hostile takeover bid for Mentor Graphics.

Rediff’s Acquisition Prospects

Rediff (Nasdaq: REDF) is reported to be in acquisition discussions with Google and Yahoo. The company’s stock moved up to an all-time high of $27.50 per share on July 12 from $17.94 on July 5. The trading volume increased to more than a million shares from an average of 50,000 share a day, and has

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Monster’s Destiny

When The New York Times entered into a deal with Monster Worldwide this February to display Monster’s job ads in NYT’s career sites, it became yet another example of how vertical portals like Monster’s job-related one has come to prominence. [We have recently covered the Online Jobs vertical in detail.] Prior to the NYT deal,

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Will Buyout Save Tribune?

Tribune Company is a media and entertainment company engaged in publishing, interactive media and broadcasting. The Company is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets and reaches out to approximately 80 percent of U.S. households. Tribune publishes 11 popular daily newspapers including Los Angeles Times, Chicago

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