MetaFilter posts tagged with microsoft and business

Got room on that Zimmer for two?

Duug — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:45:14 -0800

Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo! The grand old man of Redmond has finally come out of the closet to woo the loveliest lady in Sunnyvale, offering a staggering $44.6 billion in cash or shares. Cash or shares? Wow! Bearing in mind the...ah...disappointments both companies have suffered over the recent past, is this a marriage made in heaven? Or hell?

Facebook to blue screen shortly

Tommy Gnosis — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:51:52 -0800

Microsoft buys stake in Facebook. Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft's rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site. Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks of negotiating. Mark Zuckerberg started the online social networking site in his Harvard University dorm room less than four years ago. Mr Zuckerberg, 23, has indicated he would like to hold off on an initial public offering for at least two more years. He rebuffed a $1bn takeover offer from Yahoo last year. Facebook expects to make a profit of $30m this year so on conventional valuations a $15bn price tag would look expensive.

Evangelicals in America

kliuless — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:46:39 -0800

Earthly Empires: How evangelical churches are borrowing from the business playbook - "The triumph of evangelical Christianity is profoundly reshaping many aspects of American politics and society... This year, the 16.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention plans to 'plant' 1,800 new churches using by-the-book niche-marketing tactics. 'We have cowboy churches for people working on ranches, country music churches, even several motorcycle churches aimed at bikers', says Martin King, a spokesman for the Southern Baptists' North American Mission Board... Many of today's evangelicals hope to expand their clout even further. They're also gaining by taking their views into Corporate America. Exhibit A: the recent clash at software giant Microsoft."

The future of MS, Apple, and Google

Tlogmer — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:13:53 -0800

The future of Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

Why 2004 will be like 1984

bonaldi — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 20:53:35 -0800

A dim view of Microsoft's 2004. Not that there aren't plenty of predictions out there, but this is the most in-depth look at the new face of our favourite anti-competitor I've seen yet.

Now We

weston — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:44:22 -0800

"I think the word they are replacing is 'invention.' Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business. " Cringley puts his finger on a crucial difference, touching not only on the core of ethics but on the connection to real progress.

Biz Stratergy MS uses

jayantk — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:17:54 -0800

Google: the God that failed? is the title of the article on MSN Slate. All of us know Microsoft is working on a new search engine technology. Till date everyone considers Google to be the Guru. MS obviously doesn't like that, so what it is doing? Well, the same thing it always does - to survive competition, eliminate it. The reasons being given by the article are pretty silly and more aimed at 'faming down' Google.

Steven Den Beste — Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:20:11 -0800

One million credit card numbers stolen! News at 11! The FBI has gone public with a rather dry account of a huge organized attack on ecommerce sites, exploiting security flaws in NT which Microsoft fixed and offered patches for nearly two years ago.

daveadams — Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:49:58 -0800

Judge rules Microsoft must split up
Judge Jackson handed down the verdict today that Microsoft should be broken into two companies: one for Windows OSes, the other for all other applications and services. Many restrictions on Microsoft's behavior would also be put in place, pretty much just ensuring they couldn't lock anyone into exclusive contracts or force bundling deals on anyone.