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Read moreApple Now The Most Valuable Tech Company By $100 Billion
Apple Now The Most Valuable Tech Company By $100 Billion
As the article notes: that makes Apple worth roughly an HP (market cap: $105bn) more than any other tech company.
Meanwhile Google is catching on Microsoft fast (Up over $100/share in the past year, GOOG’s market cap is now only $28bn behind MSFT). And coming up in the rear, there’s Facebook, who’s on pace for a $10 trillion IPO in 2012 last I checked.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is Microsoft’s Eighth Largest Individual Shareholder
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is Microsoft’s Eighth Largest Individual Shareholder
THE NEW CORPORATE TAKEOVER: Elop leaves his post as head of Microsoft’s business division to become CEO of Nokia, and makes his first big move to closely tie Nokia’s future to Microsoft and its Windows Phone operating system. All while still owning something in the neighborhood of 130,000 shares of MSFT company’s stock. In the process, Microsoft effectively gets control of a handset maker without paying an acquisition price, a pretty huge asset in a competitive mobile battleground currently dominated by Apple and Google’s legion of Android partners.
All of which makes it easy to understand why some employees were so upset about the decision, they staged a walk-out. But don’t expect Elop and his leadership to budge, so much as push their opposition out of the way. Any general in Ballmer’s army has to know, there’s no such thing as a bloodless corporate coup.
(Thanks to Flytip for the link.)
Microsoft Kills One Of The Few Things The Internet Was Excited About
Microsoft Kills One Of The Few Things The Internet Was Excited About
Gizmodo breaks the story of Microsoft killing the Courier Tablet project, then Microsoft’s VP of Communications confirms it:
At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.
The Age Of Facebook?
While I don’t doubt Arrington’s prediction of Facebook’s deep, deep integration into the web for the foreseeable future, I’m not so sure the next decade will be known as the Age of Facebook so much as the golden age of the Apple Empire. There are other media players actually challenging Facebook (Google still sells a few ads, and has a few new developments that promise to extend that for some time, Twitter does pose a challenge on some real-time and location-based advertising fronts); there’s nobody that can touch Apple in mobile right now. Until someone closes that gap, Jobs & Co. are getting one massive headstart on the digital channel that will define the next decade.
The Short Version: Historically the “winner” of each cycle is the one that steps in and bridges the chasm between early adopters and majority. Imagine Microsoft in that PC chasm and Google in the desktop internet chasm. Now analysts are projecting that we’re entering the chasm for mobile internet adoption. Who will step into the […]
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