economist's Bookmarks Tagged With "web technologies"
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Fast Company, BJ Fogg - Interview
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/05/interview-bjfogg-on-facebook.html
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I think Facebook is leading because it has a high trust culture. Unlike MySpace, where you can be linked to people you don't know or find out they may not even be real people, in Facebook you generally know them or you have some certainty they're… More
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Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, NewsCorp - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/yahoo-is-still-looking-for-a-white-knight%e2%80%94news-corps-offer-does-not-pencil-out-neither-does-aols/
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"At this point, everybody and their mother has looked at ways to scuttle Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo: News Corp., AOL, Google, hedge funds. Even Barry Diller sniffed around (according to two sources), as did British Telecom and Asian investo… More
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Microsoft, Facebook - Analyst Opinion
http://bootstrapeconomist.org/2007/09/30/microsoft-and-facebook-to-strengthen-strategic-alliance/
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"[...]Microsoft’s investment in Facebook gives Bill Gates an opportunity to act as an advisor to a young visionary, helping him avoid the mistakes that he made in the past with Microsoft[...]"
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Microsoft, Yahoo - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/04/microsofts-acquisition-of-yahoo-not-as-bad-as-some-think/
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"The Microsoft is evil meme is alive and well this week as many digest Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover offer for Yahoo. There’s Flickr users protesting, talk of Yahoo teaming up with Google to block Microsoft’s bid, and general Microsoft is bad… More
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Microsoft, Yahoo - Article
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSWNAS894220080204?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
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"It's likely we're actually going to borrow for the first time," said Liddell in an annual strategy meeting with analysts. "It's going to be a mixture of the cash we have on hand plus debt." Liddell declined to say whether Microsoft was already… More
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Microsoft, Yahoo - Analyst Opinion
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/kirpatrick_microhoo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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"Microsoft controls a huge and multifaceted Web presence, and retains still-almost-unlimited financial resources. The combination of all that with Yahoo's superior Web brand and deeply entrenched position as a marketplace for display advertising a… More
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Microsoft, Yahoo - Article
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/microsoft_yahoo/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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"We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," Ballmer said in the company… More
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TechCrunch - Technology Financial Deals
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/the-year-in-deals-2007-edition/
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Microsoft bought aQuantive, Yahoo bought RightMedia, and AOL bought a bunch of ad networks. Cisco bought WebEx for $3.2 billion. CBS bought Last.fm and Wallstrip, among other deals. Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft. And in venture fundi… More
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AOL - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/
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That is sad news. I have to say, “Thank goodness for Safari and Firefox”. I was using Mosaic prior to Netscape Navigator, but I dutifully downloaded all the betas of Navigator, from 0.93 to 1.1 and all the 2.0b1 through 2.0b7 and beyond. AOL ru… More
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Facebook, Google - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/21/facebook-stealing-googlers-at-an-alarming-rate/
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"Google works by leveraging raw links. That worked well before the web went to crap. Facebook works by leveraging people and their relationships. This has the potential to work better since it involves less data and less crunching: if the X-expert… More
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