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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft

So What is Yahoo! Planning? A Theory.

Posted by: Vijay on: April 28, 2008

Disclaimer: This is just a theory. Not the fact.
The war between the giants, Microsoft and Yahoo continues. But none of the threats, nor the position that Yahoo is in, seems to be putting a brake on the companies they are going around acquiring, nor the services they are releasing. Life is as normal, infact on [...]

The Only Survival Strategies.

Posted by: Vijay on: April 21, 2008

Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs call it Business Models. Economists call it as Game theories. They are such fabulously mind-stimulating equations. The equation which essentially makes someone give up hard, liquid cash in order to avail a service, and enable you to make a profit. It’s really quite as simple as that.
How do you get to [...]

Who will save us from China?

Posted by: Vijay on: April 20, 2008

Once a while I actually go on crazy cruise mode and just randomly search for keywords that strike my fancy, hoping to come across a blog or a news article that catches my interest. Its an excercise to get out of the “echo cloud” which happens quite often when you keep listening to the same [...]

2008: Is this the year of the UMPC?

Posted by: Vijay on: April 5, 2008

UMPC, the Ultra Mobile Personal Computer. The design initially came out of Microsoft roughly about an year or so ago, and there were quite a few skeptics who raced to make claims that this would die the same death that the tablet PC had. Though the Tablet PC is quite an interesting form factor, it [...]

The Hoopla on Facebook’s valuation.

Posted by: Vijay on: October 27, 2007

The Bubble is back again. Facebook is grossly-overvalued. I am turning green with envy at the guys who are raking in money. This is not going to last. Facebook should go public.
I hear many such comments at the recent news that facebook is valued at USD 15 billion.
Hold your horses, will ya?
Microsoft has bought a [...]


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