Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group by sales, recorded a 10.3 per cent increase in underlying profits in the first nine months...Vivendi was still aiming for UMG to return to a profit margin of 10 per cent in the fourth quarter.Meanwhile, growth in Maroc Telecom...

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would...early stage.However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade...their sites from Google's search engine.News Corp and Microsoft, which owns the rival Bing search engine, declined to...

...proposed search engine alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo.Their backing for the deal...block it."We believe that Yahoo! and Microsoft's proposal to combine their technologies...against the full acquisition of Yahoo that Microsoft tried to pull off last year. Microsoft...

...announced in late July. Yahoo and Microsoft would not divulge the Justice...concerned over this deal because a Microsoft-Yahoo combination would have...results in Europe, at around 10 per cent. Brazil, Taiwan and...Under the unorthodox deal, Microsoft will supply both the main results...

Microsoft and Yahoo were forced...gets it," Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer...over the deal. It's a perfect fit for our strategy...implications of the deal. Microsoft's shares have edged up...advertising revenues over the 10-year life of the deal...

...a strain on the system. In its early days of operation, about 10 years ago, Ebay suffered frequent computer failures, but it has...long time," said Mr Holland. "It will affect people more than 10 years ago, because there are so many people now who depend on...

...from a year before. Dell got little help from the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7, which came with less than two weeks left in the...lineups, driving the market up at more than the traditional 10 per cent annual growth rate."I would not be surprised to see...

...Monday that it intends to keep fighting Microsoft on multiple fronts, demonstrating an...and Yahoo's comments made clear the Microsoft tie-up leaves room for antagonism even...Yahoo's upgrade resembles innovations in Microsoft's recently revamped Bing search engine...

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Microsoft and Yahoo agreed on Wednesday an...widely expected deal, which will give Microsoft a 10-year licence to integrate Yahoo's...deal provides."Shares of Yahoo fell 10.5 per cent to $15.40 in mid-morning New York trading. Microsoft shares rose 0.6 per cent to $23.61...