Do you remember that old point about “inflection points” from “Only the paranoid survive”?
We had that great looking chart of various IT companies IBM, DEC etc. which had the entire stack of technology all by themselves. The hardware (often right from the chip), and the sofware. Then that model went bust with Microsoft dominating the [...]
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Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo is a loose – loose deal for both
Posted in Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged Google, IT industry mergers, Large Organization mergers, microsoft, Yahoo on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The raison d’être for Microsoft’s offer to yahoo share holders is that, together, Microsoft and Yahoo will be able to make an impact on Google’s dominance in the internet advertisement market. Other elements supporting this takeover are, together, Microsoft and Yahoo will be able to stand up to the power of Google in search Engine [...]
Thoughts on Henry Blodget’s Alley Insider article…
Posted in Incidental-musing, Technology, tagged Google, Google Apps, Google Knol, henry blodget, microsoft, Wireless spectrum on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the article i referred to in the title. I notice a sense of “Inevitability” to this and similar articles / blogentries / comments etc. IMPO (In my personal opinion), this is that old standby of journalism and opinion making, smooth out the edges – conclude the article (SOTECTA in short). For [...]