A new startup called Do@ thinks there’s still room to change the way we search — not on the desktop, but on mobile devices. The company launched today with an iPhone app and a $7-million investment from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Read More »
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The latest smartphone figures from Gartner are in and they highlight just how much Microsoft and Nokia are in desperate need for each other. But with the way both are giving up marketshare, it shows that the new partnership might not be enough for either Read More »
Just 12 days later the entire Mono team was laid off from Novell, the Mono Project’s founder and lead developer Miguel de Icaza has announced the launch of Xamarin, a new startup that bills itself “the new home of the engineers that created Mono.” Read More »
Number one, great ideas matter. Number two, find passion. And, number three, be tenacious, be irrepressible.
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft officially announced it’s paying $8.5 billion for Skype today. At a press conference in San Francisco this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates gave more details about how they see the companies working together. Read More »
If one thing was expected from Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype, it was the criticism of the deal. I spoke with Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates about the deal and what comes next. Here are my notes from that conversation. Read More »
eBay can finally breathe a sigh of relief about its ill-fated Skype acquisition, now that Microsoft has bought the company for $8.5 billion. A back of the envelope calculation shows that eBay might have made a 40 percent profit on its Skype adventure. Here’s how. Read More »
Now that the word is out on the Microsoft-Skype deal, the pick-up is still leaving many scratching their heads. Others, however, are seeing some of the wisdom in the move, though it still comes down to Microsoft making the deal work, which is far from given. … Read More »
Microsoft confirmed that it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion and plans to integrate the Internet communications service into a wide array of products from Kinect and Windows Phone 7 to Lync, Outlook and Xbox Live. Read More »
There may be many questions about Microsoft’s decision to buy Skype, but one thing is for sure: It can take video conferencing video calling to a whole different level, thanks to Kinect. If you watch these videos, you can easily imagine the future of video … Read More »
Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported the news yesterday. The deal is especially good for Microsoft’s partners including Nokia and Facebook. Read More »
People familiar with Skype indicate that some kind of news is forthcoming later this week, perhaps as soon as Monday. It is also rumored that Microsoft is a late entrant and is said to be in talks with Skype, the Internet telephony company. Read More »
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