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Microsoft As Pepsico
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| As Microsoft struggles to find growth opportunities outside its core Windows
| and Office software business, it risks becoming the PepsiCo of a decade ago.
| Pepsi built a portfolio of its core beverage business, along with snack food
| and restaurant businesses. While there were marketing and distribution
| synergies between the beverage and snack food businesses, Pepsi diverted
| attention to an inefficient restaurant business.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/01/google-microsoft-showdown-tech-enter-cx_ec_0602trahan.html
Survival of the fittest: Google and Amazon
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| A scenario in which Google or Amazon are taken down isn't likely in the next
| several years, however. The two are well established and the online market is
| reaching early adolescence, making it more difficult for newcomers to be
| supremely disruptive to incumbents. If competitors become a nuisance, Google
| and Amazon have the clout and deep pockets to acquire or extinguish them, if
| they see them coming.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9959347-80.html
Recent:
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
Microsoft Profit Drops; Forecast May Miss Estimates
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| The world's biggest software maker said sales of Windows for PCs sank 24
| percent and revenue from its online advertising unit came in at the low end
| of its projections. Microsoft's report contrasted with positive comments from
| chipmaker Intel Corp. and computer company International Business Machines
| Corp.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft declined $1.60 to $30.20 in extended trading after closing at
| $31.80 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has
| fallen 11 percent this year.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQ7_iN1SxJ.c&refer=worldwide
The beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune
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| Some may even say this goes to the root of Microsoft’s heritage. How they
| came to achieve the operating system dominance and success by bullying
| smaller businesses or buying them out and marketing their product as their
| own.
|
| The way things are going, one can not help wonder if Microsoft have just run
| out of ideas on expanding their business and decided to jump on the “me-too”
| bandwagon.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2008/05/25/the-beginning-to-the-end-for-the-microsoft-zune/
Zuneral this Saturday!
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| We regret to report the sudden, unexpected death of Digital Rights
| Management. Details of the tragedy at present remain unclear, but he was
| rushed to the hospital following a direct collision with an oncoming future
| last week at 10 PM. He was seven years old.
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http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Efreeculture/blog/2008/05/22/zuneral-this-saturday/
GameStop to Stop Zune Sales
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| Video-game retailer GameStopGME has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune
| players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from
| customers.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/hardware/10418052.html
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