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10:35 AM Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Microsoft announced yesterday the acquisition of Powerset, a natural language search engine. Techmeme has lots of stories about the acquisition. Today the stories are all a bout Microsoft/Yahoo potential deals . But lets take a step back and look at how Read More...
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08:59 AM Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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The Internet Advertising Bureau announced today that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. This Read More...
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11:21 AM Saturday, October 20, 2007
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Steve Ballmer is on stage at Web 2.0. Steve explained that Microsoft is a big company and competing in lots of areas. Microsoft is not a one trick pony . Obviously the Windows Vista operating system, both client and server, are huge businesses. SQL Server Read More...
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11:19 AM Saturday, October 20, 2007
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John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley legend. He made some of the most successful investments in the history of venture capital. Some of the big ones include; Google, Amazon, Intuit, and Sun Microsystems. John did an interesting session at Read More...
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09:27 AM Friday, October 19, 2007
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Steve Ballmer said today that Microsoft will acquire 20 companies a year for the next 5 years ranging from $50 Million to $1 Billion. In fact, Microsoft has been very active on the acquisition front for the past several years. Wikipedia keeps a fairly Read More...
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08:50 AM Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Microsoft announced the acquisition of Parlano, maker of MindAlign , a group chat collaboration service. MindAlign makes it easy for groups of people to form around a topic, discuss it in real time chat (IM), and save the discussion for future reference. Read More...
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08:47 AM Friday, July 27, 2007
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Microsoft announced the acquisition of AdECN, an advertising exchange platform company. AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising. Read More...
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09:40 AM Friday, May 18, 2007
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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of aQuantive, an online advertising and marketing company, for approximately $6 Billion in cash. Founded in 1997, aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT) is primarily known for its three brand names; Atlas and DRIVEpm Read More...
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11:36 AM Thursday, May 10, 2007
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The Seattle Times covered Bill Gates speech at Microsoft's Strategic Account Summit 2007 , a gathering of Microsoft's top global advertising customers. Bill made the case for Microsoft's AdCenter, and predicted hard times ahead for traditional media advertising. Read More...
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08:14 AM Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Microsoft held its 8th annual VC Summit last week. Over 250 VCs from around the world were invited to attend. Steve Ballmer's keynote speech was the highlight of the day as usual. Steve talked about the 21 acquisitions made last year, and the desire to Read More...
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09:35 AM Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Corporate acquisitions make fascinating business case studies. Cisco recently announced an acquisition offer of $3.2 Billion for Web-Ex , a NASDAQ traded company ( WEBX ). For most of the past 12 months Web-Ex has been trading between $35 and $40 per Read More...
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12:05 PM Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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Microsoft announced today the acquisition of TellMe, a hosted speech applications company. Tellme uses voice recognition to radically simplify how people use the phone to get the information they need every day. Founded in 1999, the company powers billions Read More...
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11:24 PM Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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The MicroISV Show on Channel 9 team interviewed me earlier this week. The interview covered what we do at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team , how we work with VCs and startups, how Microsoft does acquisitions, the kinds of companies we look for, and Read More...
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01:41 PM Monday, August 21, 2006
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Many times analysts talk about " synergy " and " leverage " that is sure to result from acquisitions. My experience is that small acquisitions (5 to 200 people) do in fact often result in synergy. I can only observe that large acquisitions, $1 billion Read More...
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01:08 PM Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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Microsoft and XenSource announced they will develop technology to provide interoperability between Xen™-enabled Linux and Windows Server ® virtualization. This means Windows (Longhorn) and Linux can run on the same server in a virtualized way. Dana Blankenhorn Read More...
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