Targeted Ads Web2.0 has basically boiled down to one business model: users receive free services in exchange for personal information which then drives targeted ads Google took this almost non-existent targeted ads business model and made it into The Business Model of the decade. Google is trying to acquire the online ad agency Double-Click, Microsoft [...]
Miguel de Icaza, founder of Ximian and now lead Novell developer recently posted about Microsoft’s partnership with Novell. Specifically, Moonlight, Novell’s free implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight is now the official Linux version, sanctioned by Microsoft. Microsoft will give Novell access to the test suites for Silverlight to ensure that we have a compatible specification. The [...]
I guess the EU hates Windows as much as I do.
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Posted 24 September 2007
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Google has been acquiring businesses like mad almost since their birth. Similar companies acquire about 4.7 businesses or products per year while Google is in the staggering range of 6.4 businesses per year. Each point being in the order of about a half million to a billion dollars, 2 points-a-year more is huge. Of course, [...]
It looks like Dell isn’t done with Microsoft yet. They’ve joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance, giving it “industry” validity. I don’t know how much I like this and it’s hard to say were the future of operating systems is going. Microsoft’s got their foot in the door with the Novell alliance but now that a big [...]