Microsoft news from FierceFinance

David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital has a knack for making news at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference. Recall that he famously and correctly predicted the implosion of Lehman Brothers at the Read more...

Pequot Capital Management, the hedge fund firm run by the controversial Arthur Samberg, is shutting down, as an inquiry into possible insider trading has been revived, according to media reports. Read more...

Microsoft became one of many companies taking advantage of favorable debt conditions this week when it issued $3.75 billion in debt--making this the first time it has ever tapped the bond markets. It Read more...

Bill Gates made the case often that it's difficult for a single company to dominate over technology paradigm shifts. Microsoft wrestled leadership from IBM, and Google wrestled it from Microsoft. But Read more...

We've been saying all along that we haven't seen the last of Microsoft when it comes to a Yahoo deal. Microsoft has announced that it will not only support Carl Icahn's bid to install a new Yahoo Read more...

Way before Microsoft-Yahoo thrust his name into the spotlight yet again, Carl Icahn was a hedge fund industry icon. But did we really know him? I would suggest none of us really know the Read more...

Looks like a Yahoo-Microsoft deal is not going to happen. But it's unclear exactly what happened. After seeking a deal for the whole company, Microsoft's latest offer was for its search operations Read more...

For Jerry Yang, the erstwhile founder and chief of Yahoo, the barbarians are at the gate. He can smell the likes of Carl Icahn and his hedge fund hordes. And yet he is holding on. How long is the big Read more...

Yahoo may have been able to stare down Microsoft at the bargaining table, but we may yet see big M&A fees from a deal. The catalyst in all this remains Carl Icahn. Following his lead, an all-star Read more...

The key man in the still unfolding Microsoft-Yahoo pas de deux is not Steve Ballmer, not Jerry Yang, or even Eric Schmidt. It's investor activist Carl Icahn. The New York Times notes that while he Read more...