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• Google to buy Digg

  Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

  It’s time for Digg. It has ad agreement with Microsoft, but Google want it. And not for ads, but for its concept and users.
  Digg has very specific community of users/members, not invaded yet by commercial reasons. It is made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by [...]

• Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

  Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, and it can be foresee for several years, even 10 years, if [...]

• One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first [...]

• Yahoo! vs. Carl Icahn

  Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  A new move of Yahoo!’s board: a letter in response to Carl Icahn’s announcement regarding his intention to nominate a slate of ten directors to Yahoo!’s board of directors at the 2008 annual meeting of stockholders:
  Dear Mr. Icahn:
  We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek [...]

• Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes.
  WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily [...]

• Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone

  Monday, February 11th, 2008

  Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1.
  Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel [...]

• The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust [...]

• Romanian gamers complain against Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo WII

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  The Romanian gaming community is complaining against the discrimination of the manufacturers of the game consoles Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo WII that, although Romania is member of the European Union, the Romanian gamers do not benefit by the full online services and support for which they paid. [...]

• Microsoft to buy Calista Technologies and join Citrix Systems for virtualization

  Monday, January 21st, 2008

  Microsoft intends to develop in the virtualization field, with a more extensive strategy that includes the relaxing of the licensing for its virtualization software and lower prices.
  Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact [...]

• The “Wish list” no more, MS patented it

  Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

  Do you want a wish list? For shopping or for Santa Claus? Sorry, you have to pay to Microsoft for it!
  In accordance with Techdirt, Microdoft just got the patent for the “wish list”.
  In the US Patent dated January 1, 2008, the wish list is defined as “an electronic item list system [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• Shopping time for Microsoft: Multimap

  Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

  After WebFives, Microsoft looks now for online maps with Multimap. It is a clear strategy for Microsoft to accelerate on the market of Internet technology, giving this way more power to its existing mapping services.
  Microsoft says that this acquisition gives it a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement [...]

• Microsoft acquires WebFives

  Monday, December 3rd, 2007

  A bit too late for Microsoft, to enter on the sharing market. But they have enough power to push WebFives (ex Vizrea) through the first such centers. In fact, Microsoft is still the king of desktop applications, even if some of us deny it.
  Here it is the message of Michael Toutonghi that [...]