Following on from our previous coverage regarding Nokia deciding to opt for Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice for their smartphones, and recent rumours of a Microsoft Nokia buyout, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has hit back and denied claims that Nokia is to sell up soon, going even further and calling all [...]
Oh no he didn’t! In the world of corporate takeovers Microsoft’s aquisition of Skype was fairly large at $8.5 billion, however Russian blogger and Nokia tracker Eldar Murtazin noted on his blog a little while ago that Nokia was on Microsoft’s buy up list, too, leading to speculation that Microsoft may buy up Nokia to [...]
Following on from our news coverage yesterday regarding Microsoft buying out Skype for an undisclosed sum things have just heated up and gotten official in the business world as Microsoft have announced the buyout officially, all for a cool sounding $8.5 billion. Shaking hands and appearing to be new best friends, the deal itself was [...]
In the world of looming corporate buyouts including Facebook and Google being in the running for a possible takeover of Skype, Microsoft appears to have beaten them to it with an estimated $7 Billion buyout of the VoIP company, who had over 663 million registered users as of late 2010. All of this is according [...]
In the ongoing war of accusations against Google Microsoft have been at pretty much the forefront of claims over the past 3 years and for the best part, Google have tried their best to keep their noses clean publically. Now however they have said that they are not surpised at Microsoft’s recent accusations of undermining [...]
Ooooh how I love hard figures. They are quoted across the internet and genuinely they always come back to bite people in the future, and Microsoft has just laid down something which could come back to bite them. According to Marco Limena, vice president of Business Channels in the Worldwide Communications Sector for Microsoft, cloud [...]
Uh-oh, Zune fans. Looks like mother Microsoft is pulling the plug on their media player division after facing insurmountable competition from other companies (-cough- Apple) and will focus instead on increasing brand recogntion within the Xbox brand and the media service on WP7. This coming from the predictably shadowy man known as a ”person familiar with the decision”, [...]
Well well well! If your familiar with Microsoft Outlook i’m sure you are aware that the time tracking management capabilities of it are lacking. Now however Qlockwork, a small software development company based in London, have released a new version to it’s time tracking software (which is named Qlockwork, get it?) to help you manage your [...]
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