5 posts and columns on confidentiality

Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid

in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation. While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.

RIM to Nortel: WTF?

in News on July 21, 2009 at 7:13 am PT

Nortel Networks has rejected Research In Motion’s bid for the wireless infrastructure assets Nortel is unloading as part of bankruptcy proceedings. RIM said Monday night that it intended to offer $1.1 billion for Nortel’s CDMA and LTE businesses, but was told it could do so only if it agreed not to bid on other Nortel assets, something it had intended to do.
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EMC Makes Data Domain an Offer It Probably Can't Refuse

in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:33 am PT

NetApp has cleared all necessary U.S. regulatory hurdles to proceed with its acquisition of Data Domain, though it seems unlikely that the company will prevail now that rival EMC has trumped its bid for the storage vendor.

EMC Makes Data Domain an Offer It Probably Can’t Refuse

in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:33 am PT

NetApp has cleared all necessary U.S. regulatory hurdles to proceed with its acquisition of Data Domain, though it seems unlikely that the company will prevail now that rival EMC has trumped its bid for the storage vendor.

Data Domain to EMC: Nix, Null, Nein, Nyet, Non, Nuh-uh, Nope, Nay…

in News on June 15, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

What part of “No” does EMC not understand? On Monday the company once again said its bid for data storage equipment maker Data Domain is “superior” to a competing offer from NetApp. This, despite the fact that Data Domain earlier in the day issued a statement recommending that shareholders reject EMC’s $30-a-share cash bid.
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