Gazing Into The Clouds

Monday, April 7th, 2008

photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem. Cloud computing will be a fast ...

Microsoft and Yahoo!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

In what will undoubtedly be the largest tech deal of 2008, Microsoft has announced that they would like to get closer to Yahoo!, a lot closer. Microsoft is in acquisition talks with Yahoo! for the mind-blowing sum of $ 44.6 billion. Forced Hand Yahoo! has been under intense investor pressure for the ...

Microsoft and Limelight

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

There have been several bloggers talking about Microsoft purchasing Limelight. The real question is why would they do this? Limelight is a public company with an EPS of -0.53. Perhaps Microsoft believes they can streamline operations and turn the company around. This sounds like a pipe dream to us. Another ...