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According to the Wall Street Journal Microsoft is in talks to buy up to a 5% stake in Facebook for $300-500 million. That would value the company at up to

Great article from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, covering Yahoo's strategy. Interesting comparisions to Microsoft and Google, plus lots of stats to pore over for the number

Jane Kim, program manager for RSS in Internet Explorer, has written a useful post detailing the new RSS features in IE7. A few comments from me... 1) Microsoft has decided

Plenty happening in the digital lifestyle space this week. R/WW Network blog last100 reports on the following 3 stories: BitTorrent releases SDK for set-top-boxes and other devices: BitTorrent, the company

I've become very interested in the "Universal Canvas", a term popularized by Microsoft and subsequently analyzed by Jon Udell. First of all, here are two definitions of the Universal Canvas:

Microsoft has released details of its upcoming Zune product, an iPod-like device that is squarely aimed at challenging Apple's dominance of the online music market. TechCrunch, Engadget and PaidContent have

- Microsoft to Support OpenID; details are sketchy at this point, but Microsoft looks likely to utilize OpenID (the open, decentralized identity system) in some of its products. Brady Forrest

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Extending_Microsoft_Money_The_Web_Needs_an_Alternative_to_Paypal'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; last100 has an interesting post on Microsoft Points, a kind of virtual currency for the Xbox Live Marketplace and the

There has been a lot of development around Microsoft's Live Mesh platform in the last few days. Just last week, Microsoft opened up Live Mesh to all users and quietly

A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for "decision-makers and