Alibaba founder Jack Ma didn’t need to rub a magic lamp in order to chime in over talks of a potential Micro-hoo marriage. After all, Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) owns 39% of Ma’s Chinese eBay, so if Yahoo! gets a new owner, so does its high-performing Sino-subsidiary.
Hangzhou-based Alibaba announced Monday it [...]

February 12, 2008 (IDG News Service) Continuing its push into the mobile consumer market, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to acquire Danger Inc., the developer of software and services that run Sidekick.
Danger’s operating system and applications work in tandem with back-end servers to offer services such as games, social networking, [...]