Tag: "Microsoft"
How to Monitor your Online Reputation
Do you know what your customers are saying about your business and products? Fact is there may already be many people talking about your business on Social Networks and websites without your knowledge. Before you purchase a product or service, do you go online and look for peer reviews? I do. Therefore, it’s important to […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Mobile Ads
There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million […]
Read More | ShareWindows Store
Microsoft has been working on their Windows Store which will be compatible with Windows 7 and 8, x86 machines. The revenue split has been revealed which compromises of the following: initial revenue split of 70/30 to the developer once the app sells more than $25,000 the split will go to 80/20 to the developer Initially […]
Read More | ShareBing Search out of Beta
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is now out of beta. Bing and Yahoo7 have struck a deal to power Yahoo Searches in Australia – if you run a web search on Yahoo.com.au (au.yahoo.com) this is now powered by Bing. Therefore your Bing SEO is more important than ever. If you visit www.bing.com it is now localised […]
Read More | ShareFirst Nokia/ Windows Phone released
The first Nokia Windows Phone has been released at the Nokia World Conference in London last night (Australia time). The phone is a Nokia Lumia 800. Specifications include: 1.4 GHz processor hardware acceleration graphics processor 512 MB of RAM 16 GB hard drive/ internal memory Carl-Zeiss 8-megapixel camera The phone will run on the Windows […]
Read More | ShareSteve Jobs and Bill Gates
One of my favourite tech interviews I’ve ever watched has to be between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the AllThingsDigital conference in 2007. Steve and Bill had been competitors, business partners and friends over a 30 year period when Microsoft and Apple were first started as companies. Watching this interview gives you great insight […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft releases earning figures FY12 Q1
Microsoft has released their Q1 results for FY 2012, showing continued business and consumer growth across the Microsoft product lines. Key Stats of Interest: – Since the release of Windows 7 in 2009, more than 450 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. – Windows 8 will very much have an ‘App based’ layout […]
Read More | ShareSteve Ballmer at Web Summit 2.0
I am always interested to hear the news from Microsoft, after all they have been one of the leaders and forefront of technology for over 30 years. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO is always particularly enthusiastic and exciting on stage. Steve goes on to talk about various Microsoft products, Windows 8, Xbox, Windows Phones and Bing. […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus hits 40 Million Users
Google has just announced their Q3 Financial Results, and Larry Page CEO of Google has said that their social network, Google Plus has now reached 40 million users worldwide. Other interesting figures released by Google include: – Revenue for Q3 2011, $9.72 billion USD – up 33% – Net Income for Q3 2011, $2.73 billion […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Acquire Yahoo, Take 2?
There are rumors floating around that Microsoft may be looking to make another bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. In 2008 Microsoft put forward a bid of $44 Billion, which the Yahoo management team rejected. This lead to Yahoo stock price tumbling and Jerry Yang who was CEO (and also Founder of Yahoo) was removed from […]
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