Comments on: How Much Did Microsoft Pay For Danger?

By: (Bron: nrc) Microsoft Kin kansloos bij de Generatie Ping! « Online news!

(Bron: nrc) Microsoft Kin kansloos bij de Generatie Ping! « Online news! — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:04:56 +0000

[...] pijnlijke beslissing voor Microsoft, dat het bedrijfje Danger kocht in 2008 (naar schatting voor een half miljard dollar), twee jaar ontwikkeltijd en heel wat marketinggeld in de Kin stak. Danger maakte ook de Sidekick [...]

By: Microsoft KIN: so much for that idea - LiveSide.net

Microsoft KIN: so much for that idea - LiveSide.net — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:29:06 +0000

[...] accomplish that, according to Engadget, Microsoft went out and acquired Danger (for a purported $500 million), but then made a decision to retool the Danger Sidekick OS to Windows CE, which set the project [...]

By: Microsoft buys Danger Inc. (Meh) | Que será

Microsoft buys Danger Inc. (Meh) | Que será — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:44:17 +0000

[...] to GigaOM Microsoft shelled out a whopping $500 million for Danger, Inc. My guess is that they want to use Danger’s OS mobile service platform to integrate and [...]

By: Microsoft acquires Danger Inc | Microsoft News Tracker

Microsoft acquires Danger Inc | Microsoft News Tracker — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:20:23 +0000

[...] Om Malik reports a rumor that Microsoft paid US $500 million and offers a rationale for this largesse. Filed under Acquisitions, Coopetition, Danger, Inc., [...]

By: How to Burn $500 Million in a Weekend

How to Burn $500 Million in a Weekend — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:52:27 +0000

[...] left thousands of customers without their personal information, Danger Inc., a company Microsoft bought for about half-a-billion last year is fast becoming worthless. T-Mobile USA, its biggest champion (and arguably the biggest [...]

By: Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:58:38 +0000

[...] report is bad news for Microsoft given that less than two years ago it paid a reported $500 million to acquire Danger, the developer behind the T-Mobile Sidekick. Microsoft’s 2008 [...]

By: SmartPhones Sales Up, But Mobile Startup Funding Down

SmartPhones Sales Up, But Mobile Startup Funding Down — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:32:45 +0000

[...] year there were three major deals adding up to over $600 million. These included Microsoft’s purchase of Sidekick-maker, Danger for $500 million. In the first half of 2009 there were quite a few acquisitions though many of them were small and [...]

By: Microsoft débourse 500 millions dans le “Danger” - Gizmodo - Tant d'amour pour ces fabuleux nouveaux gadgets, c'est surnaturel.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:28:02 +0000

[...] source pas toujours fiable, mais si c’est vrai il reste du cash pour encore séduire Yahoo!. [GigaOM et TheInquirer en [...]

By: Cyrus Kazemi » Blog Archive » Old: Microsoft Buys Danger

Cyrus Kazemi » Blog Archive » Old: Microsoft Buys Danger — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:35:46 +0000

[...] the maker of the popular Sidekick from T-Mobile, was purchased for an undisclosed amount of money. Some people estimate as much as $500 million dollars, given that Danger has raised over $140 million in [...]

By: euro2008

euro2008 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:37:46 +0000

What did MS pay for? Danger WAS a platform way ahead of it’s time, but it never advanced… If they were getting Andy Rubin’s innovation, it would be a better story. There’s no way they will be able to compete with Android. The only thing I can think is that they overpaid so they could aquire some specific patent…