Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup from Powerset. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.
The Powerset team will join Microsoft’s Search Relevance team.
Powerset is pioneering semantic search, technology that Nadella said is valuable to Microsoft’s direction for its search engine.
Semantic search attempts to extract meaning from search [...]
I heard Micsoft Zune, which people said “the killer of iPod”, in 2006. Until today, I just found it was advertised in Canadian retailer’s flyer — Zune digital music players available in stores across Canada starting June 13, 2008.
我第一次听说Zune是在2006年，当时人们都把微软的这个产品叫做“iPod的杀手”。但是直到今天，我才在加拿大本地零售商的宣传广告上看到真正的Zune在销售。2008.6.13日，是Zune正式登陆加拿大的日子。至于什么是Zune，大家应该可以从“iPod杀手”这名字看出来。
(The sign of Zune)
Zune can be the killer of iPod ? Maybe it is too [...]
Yahoo! Announces Microsoft Talks Have Concluded
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction — whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition — have concluded. The conclusion of discussions follows numerous meetings and conversations with Microsoft regarding [...]
The news for me today is Microsoft abandoned Yahoo Acquisition.
Yahoo asked $37, but MS just wanna give $33. Actually they had raisd its initial bid ($31) by about US$5 billion. And Yahoo did sth. for making friend with Google. They outsourced Yahoo search business to Google! This made MS unhappy and worried about the [...]
