Why Doesn’t Microsoft Buy Time Warner? AOL, Bebo, AIM and Harry Potter!
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| You could feel the testiness jump right over the phone from several people
| close to Microsoft whom I spoke to about Yahoo’s latest gambit to sell its
| blue-sky growth plan to Wall Street.
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| For the same high, high price, why not take all that money and buy AOL and
| the giant media conglomerate attached to it?"
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http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080320/why-doesnt-microsoft-buy-time-warner-aol-bebo-aim-and-harry-potter/
Microsoft should be more concerned about GNU/Linux. Ballmer is.
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Microsoft Executive To Testify At Google, DoubleClick Hearing
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| The hearing will examine the "risks for competition and privacy" of Google's
| planned $3.1 billion acquisition of online-advertising company DoubleClick,
| according to a posting on the Senate Judiciary Committee Web site.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djhighlights/200709211644DOWJONESDJONLINE000729.htm
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Google denies its Apps just a Microsoft Office add-on
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| Google staff don't like the suggestion that their own employees depend mostly
| on Microsoft Office even as Google Apps makes headway into the enterprise
| collaboration and e-mail market.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1697987130&rid=-50
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
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