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Microsoft buys Skype

david — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:57:55 +0000

Microsoft bought Skype for one reason, and one reason only. Relevance.

A quick reading between the lines of Balmer’s internal email supports this idea.

Today’s announcement underscores who we are as a company. We are ambitious and forward looking. We have big goals and aspirations. And when we look into the world and see opportunities to do [...]

Facebook messaging

david — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:33:01 +0000

So Facebook wants to extend its dominion over all things social on the net with its new messaging system. The term gmail killer has been floated around and gives some insight into the recent spat between Facebook and Google over contact sharing.

The youtube vid is a bit lackluster but that could be deliberate since [...]

Google and TV

david — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:21:47 +0000

Although Rupert and Micro$oft tried to steal the limelight last week with their joint venture on Foxtel the big story appeared in the NY Times months ago where it wrote

Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new [...]

FT.com / Media – Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

david — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:42:09 +0000

Not long ago I linked to Jason Clacanis’s video where he talked about the potential for News Corp to play off Bing against Google and today the Financial Times has another more concrete looking story which suggests that the Microsoft News marriage is all but done and dusted. News brings a fat dowry of rich [...]

Is Content King?

david — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:53:50 +0000

Is this a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend?

When Rupert talked recently about thieves he referred to Google and Microsoft as well as Ask but this seems like a obvious development, one that probably favours Microsoft because they gain more than just the business in search, it also strengthens their [...]

Google Fast Flip

david — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:00:38 +0000

Oh dear, what will Mr Murdoch say?

Google Fast Flip.

Beware – the Google monster!

david — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:50:51 +0000

The Google monster!

Julian Lee’s 4 page rant about the evil Google monster might just be one example of how the old media is fighting their decline into insignificance. As he writes “The irony is that the media helped create the monster now giving them nightmares and there is little they can do to stop [...]