Tech Town, NC

For some reason there is a meme going around that Google is a “natural monopoly,” but no one has made a convincing case on why that is. Henry Blodget compares them to Microsoft’s natural monopoly in operating systems, but never supports this claim. He simply states that they “should continue to appraoch…” […]

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Adam Ostrow gives credit where credit is due by lauding a couple big steals in the world of web 2.0 acquisitions: MySpace and Flickr. When Mr. Murdoch bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005 many thought he had lost his mind. In retrospect, that was chump change.
Microsoft has ponied up about half of […]

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There is ample talk about what lies ahead for Microsoft and Yahoo, with some people even putting their money on another advance by Mr. Ballmer. With a $50 billion offer recently shelved it’s a valid question sot ask - How will Microsoft now employ that money to get some sort of return on it?
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