Category Archives: Microsoft Fights Back

What Microsoft’s Purchase of Aquantive Really Says About Its Future

The situation? Microsoft has picked up Aquantive, an end-to-end advertising firm which was birthed just before the first bubble popped in the late nineties for a redmond-ian sum of 6 billion dollars and change.
The issue? Microsoft paid almost 100% more than what Aquantive was valued at. The day before the purchase was anounced.
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Google Goobling Up Startups? Its But A Part of Google’s Masterplan, Folks.

Some news bubbling out of eWeek, by way of Allan Stern at CenterNetworks, that Google likes to acquire smaller companies at a fairly prodigious rate — about once per week. Eye-popping and somewhat reflux-relieving if you’re a startup, but not at all surprising if you’ve been following Google. In fact, I’m surprised that [...]

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Dell’s Crowdsourcing More Than Hype: Tells Microsoft to “Suck It!”

Well, not in as many words. But as a follow up to Microsoft’s contracts stipulating that new PC’s to be sold in 2008 will *only* be allowed to ship with Vista, it seems like Dell is intent on making IdeaStorm more than a pretty “Digg Clone”. Ideastorm, for those not following the story, [...]

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Microsoft “Dead”? Please.

Paul Graham, VC, and one of the many men behind Y Combinator, has pronounced that Microsoft is Dead. Well, if this isn’t one heckuva piece of linkbait. And on a quiet April weekend, its probably going to reverb until Monday, thanks to getting Techmeme’d.
I suppose its easy to hate Microsoft. There are [...]

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Vista To Run Life Support? How About A Simple Chest X-Ray?

Microsoft and medicine. What an interesting combination.

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The Real Reason Why Google’s Getting Into Domain Registration

Google has its reason for Domain Registration … and I think I may know what it is.

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SpeedBurps: Microsoft In The Echosphere

Microsoft in the news

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