Scoble’s Davos Videos
I made quite a few videos on Qik last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites,…
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I made quite a few videos on Qik last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites,…
As the news about Microsoft's offer to purchase Yahoo! went around, the search engine industry was inundated with the buzz and speculations.
While the big deal in the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is the money and market share changing hands, there are plenty of Microsofties who are wondering which Yahoo employees will become their co-workers, their bosses, and their replacements.
Given the hue and cry about Yahoo!'s expected layoffs and its less than perfect market performance in Q4, the word about the possible bid by Microsoft had already been in the air, which has now been translated in to a reality. Would the deal eventually materialize or not?
Google would like to see Yahoo stay out of Microsoft's embrace for competitive reasons, but Microsoft's top lawyer says there's no problem here.
Google's stock is down because its rate of growth is down according to Google's latest quarterly financial report. Google still had a 30 percent increase in payments from clicking ads, but that was substantially down from the 45 percent increase they had a year earlier.