Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Without a clear (public) business case, the latest king of the social networks is raising $100 million, according to Business Week's FaceBook: Friends with Money, and also echoed by TechCrunch.
Here is some interesting data from the Business Week article:
Facebook already raised $360m in last seven months: $240m from Microsoft for a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Microsoft keeps losing market share slightly and continuously, in part thanks to Vista.
But let's admit it, Vista is not that terrible, even if far from perfect. Microsoft monopolistic habits and greed to milk the licenses cow, make people have a negative feeling (not to say hate) about Microsoft. Steve Ballmer's arrogance ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Mobile TV continue to expand in Asia, Europe and US. AT&T just launched a broadcast Mobile TV service, offering 10 channels for $15 a month. Verizon launched their service one year ago. In Italy UMTS mobile operator 3 (Hutch group) is the most successful commercial launch in Europe for Broadcast ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address book, etc.
As an user, you can envision IMS ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
A wedding is the most common of the happy endings in movies, theater plays and also in the stock market.
A wedding of Microsoft and Yahoo would make very happy to Yahoo investors (specially those who bought in the last months), trading banks and stock brokers that will cash nice fees.
But ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
After Microsoft pulled off the $33 a share bid, the stock market is the judge to approve Yahoo board's decision, by keeping the share price up, or to disapprove by sending its price below $20.
This morning Yahoo share took a 20% hit, opening at $23.02, after Friday’s close at $28.67. ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo deal is over. Microsoft has withdrawn its bid as Yahoo did not accept the offer of $33 per share.
TechCrunch was the first to report the break in negotiations - I wonder how Mike can know so fast... or do they edit the posting time? Just kidding... -. Mike's ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Apple success in the consumer market, with Macs winning market share positioned as high-end stylish computers and iPhones revolutionizing mobile phones, might extend to enterprises too. BusinessWeek reports in detail about this trend in The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit.
Mac's move to Intel CPUs is paying back. Apart for ...
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