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Microsoft Corp and Yahoo! Inc are joining the Open Book Alliance, a newly formed group of opponents to a class action settlement the Google Book settlement that gives Google Inc the right to commercialize digital copies of millions of books. Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ search engine wants to give Google a run for its money. Bing continues to gain market share against the worldwide search engine leader, Google. Bing officially launched on June 3, initially taking over what was previously the Microsoft ‘Live Search’ market share. Today, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) disclosed the details about the highly anticipated Windows 7 operation system, which is expected to be in the stores on October 22, 2009. Starting Friday, consumers in U.S. will be able to pre-order Windows 7 at discounts of more than 50%. Microsoft just took the idea of the Nintendo Wii motion sensor and took the idea little further by allowing the gamers play game without a controller. It’s been called, “Project Natal”. It honestly sounds like a Top-Secret government operation intended to destroy Nintendo’s Wii console. The name is funny to joke around but the product [...] Microsoft announced their new Zune HD, surprisingly months in advance. This could be a way to get a head start in the race with the dominant Apple iPhone. Microsoft said that the new Zune music player will be due in fall. The price is not yet announced. The Zune HD has an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting [...] Facebook is taking $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment group. The investment will take a 1.96 percent stake in the company, giving Facebook a $10 billion valuation. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed not to give up a board seat to DST in return for the cash. But, DST has the option [...] |
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