http://www.fastcompany.com/tags/merger The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. xx http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/april-joyner/class-and-communication/aol-buys-social-network-bebo <p>Yesterday, AOL announced its pending acquisition of <a href="http://www.bebo.com" target="_blank">Bebo</a>, the third largest social network in the United States, for $850 million. The announcement comes amid ongoing speculation of where AOL and its parent company Time Warner fit in Microsoft's battle for Yahoo!</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/april-joyner/class-and-communication/aol-buys-social-network-bebo">read more</a></p> acquisition advertising aol bebo facebook Internet media merger monetization myspace social network Technology Technology 745571 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:13:24 -0400 April Joyner 745571 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/april-joyner/class-and-communication/gunning-google-two-camps-online-marketing <p>Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/april-joyner/class-and-communication/gunning-google-two-camps-online-marketing">read more</a></p> acquisition advertising display google merger microsoft online marketing search Technology Yahoo Technology Management 745621 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:30:00 -0500 April Joyner 745621 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/david-sherwin/changeorder-business-process-design/hey-microsoft-while-youre-it-buy-quark <p>There's been two metric tons of press regarding the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger -- henceforth referred to as Microhoo -- so I won't mention it here again... much. </p> <p>But while Microsoft's throwing about vast piles of cash for non-complementary technology that bolsters its market share by reducing choice, why don't they integrate their <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/">Expression Suite</a> with the once-mighty <a href="http://www.quark.com/">QuarkXPress</a>?</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/david-sherwin/changeorder-business-process-design/hey-microsoft-while-youre-it-buy-quark">read more</a></p> creative merger microsoft Quark Management Design 705764 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:16:17 -0500 David Sherwin 705764 at http://www.fastcompany.com