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Microsoft’s Acquisition Exec Quitting
In October, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced that he intended to acquire 20 companies per year for the next five years. As far as anyone knows, that remains the case. Yet this task may become more difficult than Ballmer expected, as Bruce Jaffe, the corporate vice president of corporate development, is quitting. read more More: continued [...]
Microsoft’s Creepy Brain Scan Patent App
I think before the robots take over everything and use us for batteries, it will appear that humans have hyper-evolved into mechanically enhanced super-sapiens. But that’s really just to build false confidence in us. A recent Microsoft patent application is perhaps the next step toward that digitally created human battery soup dream. read more More: [...]
Yahoo Moves Onto Microsoft’s Turf
Yahoo’s going to Bellevue, but it’s Bellevue, Washington, and not New York’s Bellevue Hospital Center, in which the search company will open an office. You may still have to question Yahoo’s sanity, though, as this move puts it in Microsoft’s territory. Actually, a map of the area shows that about four miles should separate the [...]
Ask City Draws Up Map Embedding
Users of Ask City can whip out their drawing tools, select an area on a map, search for a relevant business or event, and embed that map on their sites or blogs.Gary Price announced the latest updates to Ask City, the local search and mapping service from Ask.com. One update added allows people to find [...]
Microsoft’s Search: Up, Up, And Kaboom?
When I think of the word “trajectory,” I think of an object arching through the air. More specifically, I think of some sort of grenade or missile that explodes on impact. So I had to raise an eyebrow when Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson said the company’s search business is “on a positive trajectory.” But, hey, at [...]
Scoble: Microsoft Is Run By Geeks
Robert Scoble earned his fame through corporate blogging, not PR blogging, where messages are always sugared up, but through saying what he wanted about Microsoft while working at Microsoft. He’s on to other things now, but is still giving the Beast of Redmond the old what-for. "Microsoft is run by geeks," says the Scobleizer, bemoaning [...]
Google Courting More Students With Email
Google’s serious about creating relationships with the greater Academia – its founders were collegiate all-stars building printers out of Legos, and of course badly-named search engines (Google was once called BackRub, we imagine because that was Larry Page’s best pickup line) – ahem, as more and more universities turn their email systems over to the [...]
Microsoft’s Silverlight A Menace To YouTube?
Soapbox represented Microsoft’s attempt kill YouTube. It failed. Actually, since Soapbox was pulled off the market, then reintroduced, you could say that it failed twice. In any event, Microsoft may now take another shot at YouTube, and this time the company’s hopes rest with Silverlight. Of course, Silverlight is yet another technology that has had [...]
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