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  • Who will win the game of nerves?

    June 7th, 2008

    Microsoft knows to play rough if affect its interests But on 1 February prelyubezno ask the board of Yahoo! to consider the proposal to buy a $ 44 billion in cash and shares. The request was rejected, a battle for acquisition of zaprilicha karvavo derbi.

    Is there a change month later? On 5 March Yahoo! extend the deadline by which investors will nominate directors to the board. Microsoft will have no more than 10 days to act after Yahoo! set a date for the annual meeting of shareholders. The decision of Yahoo! expect the coming weeks. Appointment of directors in Yahoo! probably is the next step in combating the Microsoft acquisition. Yahoo! argues that the prolonged period will allow the board to “explore all strategic alternatives.

    Microsoft is not quick to take strategic moves, so that the prolonged period does not change its plans to nominate directors. There are no other proposals to the portal or partnership or to purchase, which is close to the offer of Microsoft. If Yahoo! refuses to negotiate with producers of software, Microsoft may make the proposal directly to shareholders in the company. Winning the battle will cost to Microsoft (which owns shares in the portal) $ 20-30 million, say experts on mergers and acquisitions. At the expense of any such increase of dollar per share in the Microsoft proposal would add $ 1.4 billion to account for the purchase. If Microsoft get a majority in the board, there is no doubt that the directors will eliminate unfavourable clause that allows them to issue more securities obeztsenyavayki so the value of existing shares and oskapyavayki acquisition. If Microsoft proves to be too aggressive, senior executives of Yahoo! may uslozhnyat future negotiations, as raised questions about antitrastovata policy to regulators. And an aggressive acquisition would nakaralo key officials in Yahoo! to leave.

    RAZUMNATA STRATEGY

    Microsoft hopes not to find directions. The plan for internal reforms in the board of Yahoo! is a reasonable strategy. So the chief executive officer Steve Ballmer continuous exercise, but not excessive pressure. Until now, negotiations on Yahoo! c potential partners such as Google or News Corp., and startiralite talks with Time Warner about merging the operations division of AOL, gave no particular result. “Saving the pressure does not prevent any negotiations” - allegedly Bruce Goldfarb, who manages nyuyorkskata company Okapi Partners, specializes in hostilities acquisitions.

    The annual meeting of shareholders of Yahoo! will be held in mid-July. It is not excluded as long software giant to circumvent board and make a direct offer to shareholders in Yahoo!. They may be sablazneni, given the effect of slowing the economy on the profits of Yahoo!. Another factor is that 18 of 25 - they are the largest shareholder in Yahoo! hold more shares in Microsoft, than in Yahoo!, and have no incentive to make giganta to pay more, notes analizatorat of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group David M. Hilal.

    Microsoft still has the last word. But in any case, diplomacy will be crucial.

  • NEVEQ инвестира в Онтотекст

    June 7th, 2008

    NEVEQ acquired a minority share of the company for semantic technologies and Web 3.0 Ontotekst. NEVEQ will invest in structuring the company’s expanding business potential and penetration of new markets. From the current team of 30 officers Ontotekst will be increased to over 100 people. Following the transaction Ontotekst, subdivision of Bulgarian leading ICT company Sirma Group is obosobyava in a separate company. “This is the only bulgarian IT team, which creates a unique technological solutions, managing large arrays of information through the perception of words not only as a series of symbols, but also through their insight in the sense explained Konstantin Petrov, managing partner at NEVEQ.

  • Why blogs are the most reactive media in Bulgaria

    June 7th, 2008

    3-4 years before blogs had only people who could create their own site. With the emergence of blog hostingi as Blog.bg, BgLog.net, BgIT.net and other discovery of such a unique place with a few clicks of a keyboard. Easiest environment for handling allow a huge number of people with their own opinion, but not enough technical knowledge to create their own blogs and to comment.

    According to statistics Blog.bg the biggest part of 8 - they are thousands of bloggers aged 26 to 35 years. Most are students and graduates. There are blogs created as a “domestic work” by users who follow European Studies and Mass Communications. Fortunately, “bonded” blog then becomes the preferred place for communication and sharing of ideas.

  • Mediamixx 2008

    June 7th, 2008

    The traditional festival in Albena and this year will be the place where bulgarian and foreign media will present their newest products. At the site of the forum can be seen and program participants and to vote online for Girls in the various categories of the Festival competition.

    Assembled most votes media products will be awarded with prize of the audience, which will be awarded for the first time. Online voting will be suspended two hours before the announcement of the winners in each category and awarded will be announced on galatseremoniyata. According to statistics of the organizers of visits to the site last year has increased nearly 4 times.

    It is expected that this year the organizers to offer a different and enriched program. During the festival will be held first Mediamixx Congress. On the first day of the Congress (5 June) participants will be able to attend the panel discussion Mediyata as a bridge between religion and culture, Advertising and PR Why money and love sports. The next day congress continues discussions with Money, media, marketing and new clothes on the press.

    Recent discussion panels of Congress will have communication - click on the button, Internet and television into the pockets and the future of advertising on radio. All discussions will be open to students who are trained in the field of media, marketing and communications.
    For the second consecutive year as part of Mediamixx will be awarded the prize Best young journalist. Will be given two awards for contribution in the development of the media - a legend in Bulgarian journalism Dimitri Ivanov and the director nominated for Oscar, Emmy and Golden Lion, Robert Dornhelm.

    The opening of the festival will be on 4 June. It will continue until June 8. Co-organizer this year is Vestnikarska group Bulgaria. Diema television is expected to make a presentation of evroshampionata in one of the days of the festival.

  • Live online

    June 7th, 2008

    Registration is already running in ninth BG Site 2008, organized by ABC Design & Communication, M3 Communications Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers. This year the event is the motto of Live online. To participate in the contest can register until September 20, 2008 The fee for participation is 100 leva site.

    The conditions for participation in this competition determine expert advice on which members Justine Toms - manager of ABC Design & Communication, Ivan Ivanov - executive director of Zed Digital Cybermark, Venus Alexandrova - uebdirektor of Netage.bg, and Alexander Varov. We will be able to register to participate online at www.bgsite.org

    In this edition of the competition has lead the audience that will determine their vote by the best sites, Toms added. Experts, executives of major companies or sites linked to the Internet business, leading specialists in the field of uebdizayna will be members of the jury. Will be distributed 10 awards, but will not be divided into categories.

    In October each user can give their votes on the website of the competition and thus determine the choice of the audience. She will vote for favorite in the following categories: Design portfolio, Administration, Banking and Finance, Electronic shop, Corporate site, Web 2 platform Personal blog, Travel and Tourism, Social Welfare, Dating, Ad Campaign and others. And this year the control of strict compliance with the rules and objective vote has entrusted the international audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers - arbiter of the most prestigious competitions such as Oscar and the Webby awards.

    Within the competition at the end of October traditionally will be held two days uebseminar, which will be exported lectures leading experts from home and abroad in the field of online marketing and uebprisastvieto. The official ceremony at the awarding ceremony of otlichenite will be held on October 31, 2008 The winners will receive a trophy - a symbol of the contest, drafted by Ivo Arnaudov.

  • BG Site 2008

    June 7th, 2008

    From “BG Site” announced the official launch of the ninth edition of the competition and the conditions for participation. More than 300 site is expected to be included in it. 1 June registration starts in the competition organised by ABC Design & Communication. The registration of participants in the competition lasts until September 20, 2008 The fee for participation is 100 leva site. You can register online at www.bgsite.org.

    At the same time, the Bulgarian Web Association announced the names of members of the jury for the festival Web Albena 2008. These are Boril Karaivanov (Bulgarian Web Association, head direction “Graphic Design” in BSH), Irina Gerdzhikova (co-founder of the laboratory in polzvaemost Lucrat), Krassen Hinkov (Deputy Director of Marketing Data in Mtel), Martin Popov (media agency MindShare, part of the advertising agency Ogilvy and creator of Interactive Share) and Nikolai Chakarov (Bulgarian Web Association, creator of Yvox). The main objective in selecting the jury was any of its members be approved and directly connected to the Internet specialist, to complement the jury with the uniqueness in their professional activities.

  • Google Sites for all

    June 7th, 2008

    Google opens its service to create sites Google Sites for all users having the Google account. Google Sites launched on 28 February, but was only available to users of Google Apps

    With the help of Google Sites can be created sites with varying degrees of complexity, without knowledge of HTML by Drag’n'Drop. The level of access to the site can be restricted only to certain users or sobodno for all.

    Pages created by Google Sites can be edited as documents in Google Docs, they may be added as widgets, all elements of embeded services of Google: calendar, documents and spreadsheets, photos from Picasa Web Albums, presentations, video or lists .

    By Google Sites, users Search engine still receive a great tool for group work and centralized data collection, which may be available as from restricted group, and the world.

  • Hello world!

    April 5th, 2008

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