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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft vs. Google: Crazy acquisition strategies?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1223]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft bidding up acquisitions on purpose? Robert Scoble headlines.  Sound crazy? Another crazy DoubleClick fallout hypothesis: The losers were only interested in spying on DoubleClick operations.  Would a Morgan Stanley managed multi-billion dollar sale of a competitively sensitive privately held business owned by professional investors really be run...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:46:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google DoubleClick merger: Who wins, who loses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1221]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to &ldquo;make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers,&rdquo; all in one fell swoop?  A single Google check for $3.1 billion made out to DoubleClick!Google&rsquo;s world wide mastery of SPIN continues, big time, in its determined takeover of the World Wide Web:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:07:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/venture+capital.html"><![CDATA[Venture Capital]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google buyouts are BAD business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1213]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up!  Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and &ldquo;crazy&rdquo; things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still &ldquo;unclear&rdquo; how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:44:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Photos: Demo '07 on parade]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-53083.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies make their best product pitches to journalists, venture capitalists, and merger and acquisition wonks.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
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