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- Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits
- On the day after the historic Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shared these new tidbits regarding Microsoft?s CRM strategy during his keynote address at the Worldwide Partner sexy lingerieRE: Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quitsMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer shared these new tidbits regarding Microsoft?s...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Microsoft hires former Yahoo exec to run online services
- Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits
- Microsoft's search for a leader for its beleaguered Online Systems business is over and at least one of its top execs seemingly is none too happy with the results. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Windows Vista: More than 88 million copies sold
- Microsoft has now sold more than 88 million copies of Windows Vista, according to company officials. Vista sales were a big part of the reason Microsoft had a more-than-solid first fiscal 2008 quarter, with earnings of $4.29 billion, or 45 cents a share, on revenue of $13.76...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- When you think RIAs are not even a blip on the $15 billion radar
- Words can't express how insane I think this is but I'm sure every blogger in the world will have some kind of take on Microsoft's investing $240 million in Facebook at a $15 billion valuation. At first today actually made me feel very small. The cool applications, some of which...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- News to know: PC satisfaction; Nokia batteries; VMware IPO; Flash VOIP
- Notable headlines:Customer satisfaction down among PC buyers.Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery.AP: VMware prices IPO at $29.Ed Bott: The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?Larry Dignan: Classmates files for $125 million IPO.Ryan Stewart: Flash based VOIP is finally here.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Shared Source licenses are now in...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- New roles for old Softies, as Microsoft-aQuantive dust settles
- As usual, there's more to a Microsoft restructuring than meets the eye.Now that Microsoft's $6 billion purchase of ad powerhouse aQuantive has received the official nod from aQuantive's shareholders, Microsoft is beginning the long process of melding the two companies.Step one, announced on August 13: Create a new division, the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buy
- Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buyOn Motly Fools and Virtical IntigrationAny university level course on math of finance or stock investing will lead the student to question Virtical Integration, which is what the Aquantive buy is all about. If memory serves me right Aquantive use to count Microsoft as one...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- aQuantive: Who are these guys?
- aQuantive: Who are these guys?Great articleIs the title .....: Who are these guys? a standard template?If so then I would like to suggest a similar article be done on:"Telstra Burgess and ACCC", my Google Search pattern.Burgess made a seriously inflammatory statement yesterday morning: This may be inconsequential to yourselves but;My...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- aQuantive is not a Microsoft open source play
- aQuantive is not a Microsoft open source playM$ will switch, sort of...M$ will make an effort to switch to the .NET stack. Because folks are watching to see if M$ eats it's own dog food. Remember Hotmail? Hotmail had to use Solaris. And still today ...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- aQuantive is not a Microsoft open source play
- Writer Rodney Gedda at Computerworld writes that aQuantive, the online ad agency Microsoft is buying for $6 billion, is an open source play.The reason? Many aQuantive units, including AvenueA Razorfish and Atlas, make extensive use of open source software, including mySQL, Linux, and Apache.If you use open source, are you...
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Microsoft on aQuantive: Think merger, not acquisition
- Microsoft on aQuantive: Think merger, not acquisitionNo such thing as a mergerI love it when these touchy feely statements come out about acquisitions. He says come live in my house drink my wine eat my food sleep in my bed.. My house is your house treat it as your...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Just how valuable are those cookie files?
- The run on Internet advertising firms may be explained by the cache of cookies sitting in your browser. As we all know online advertising consolidation is rampant--Google bought DoubleClick; Microsoft grabbed aQuantive; WPP takes out 24/7 Real Media and Yahoo acquired Right Media. These moves have been attributed to everything...
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Microsoft on aQuantive: Think merger, not acquisition
- Microsoft views its aQuantive purchase as more of a merger than an acquisition, according to Steve Berkowitz, the Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services.Berkowitz discussed Microsoft's $6 billion aQuantive buy, among other topics, during his May 22 presentation at the JP Morgan Technology conference. (I listened to the Webcast...
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- News to know: Google and Salesforce.com; Microsoft speaks on patents; HTC Vox
- Notable headlines:Google, Salesforce.com reportedly in alliance. Dan Farber: Salesforce.com adds ability to consume Web services in Apex.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'? Pat Helland 2.0 rejoins Microsoft.George Ou: Windows Home Server versus Linux or BSD.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Popfly: Yahoo Pipes for the rest of us....
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Noodling over how aQuantive is worth $6 billion
- Noodling over how aQuantive is worth $6 billionPerhaps M/S is after aQuantive's patentPerhaps, part of aQuantive's value to M/S is its ChannelScope patent. M/S could be acquiring the patent for their own protection, but also to use it aggressively against some of their competition. Just a guess.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Noodling over how aQuantive is worth $6 billion
- Is aQuantive worth twice as much as DoubleClick? Why would Microsoft pay an 85 percent premium? Did Microsoft have a choice?These are questions I'm noodling as I ponder the Microsoft purchase of aQuantive (see Techmeme, aQuantive history, and Microsoft Q&A).Unfortunately, I'm not getting a lot of help with...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Microsoft $6 billion punch to Google: aQuantive trumps DoubleClick?
- Microsoft $6 billion punch to Google: aQuantive trumps DoubleClick?I have a question..Do you "Ever" write about anything other than Google? Seems a bit of an obsession to me.wasted click, wish i can have it back.I like the post Donna.I like your writing style. You don't seem to be on...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Microsoft $6 billion punch to Google: aQuantive trumps DoubleClick?
- NEWS FLASH: Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc; Company details plans to build Internet-wide advertising platform for advertisers, publishers and ad agencies.That is exactly how I learned the news while attending the Google CEO keynote this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum underway in downtown Manhattan, straight from a Lehman Brothers...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Podcast: News to know midday update: Microsoft's aQuantive buy; Search engine bugs; iPhone
- In today's podcast: Microsoft pays $6 billion for aQuantive. Who is aQuantive and did Microsoft panic and overpay? Ryan Naraine reports June is the month of search engine bugs. And the iPhone appears ready for liftoff. More on the FCC approval.
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
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