All Posts Tagged With: "M&A"

Jerry’s sweet victory, what next for Yahoo?

After a tumultous 6 months, it is sweet victory for Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo! Inc. In the annual meeting of stockholders held on 1st of Augist, Yahoo stockholders re-elected all of Yahoo!’s nominees to the Board of Directors.
Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo!, said, “We now look forward to executing on our strategy and continuing [...]

August 3rd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Virgin Mobile acquires Helio

Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, Inc. As part of the deal, Virgin Mobile USA will acquire Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink for limited partnership units equivalent to 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA class A common stock, with a [...]

June 28th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Venture Capital firms see a slowdown

The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index fell for the second straight quarter to its lowest levels since the index was started in Q1 2004. The index declined from 3.54 to 3.22 on a 5 point scale. The index is based on a survey of silicon valley venture capitalists conducted by a University of [...]

April 17th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued