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Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have long been students of Niccolò Machiavelli. The art of war, he wrote, and they apparently agree, requires that the Prince not dismiss morality; instead, he politically defines it. For cruel action to be effective, Machiavelli said, it must be decisive: swift, effective, and short-lived. His famous book, [...]
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Understandably, the behemoth from Redmond, WA is running scared.
Since, it effectively lost the main tech wars that matter “fair and square” in the tech ring by a technical knockout, it resorted to throwing three devious “below the belt” punches in the street.
How so?
First, Google made the courageous decision to stop filtering information at the whim [...]
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Losing Share in the Browser and Email Wars
Even though it ships free with Windows, Microsoft has for years been losing market share in the browser wars to Firefox, Safari, and more recently, to Chrome. It’s still dominant, but a far cry from its near-monopoly a few years back.
Compare the same stats a year ago.
In [...]
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Microsoft, still the leader in yesterday’s desktop operating systems and software has lost decisive battles in the tech boxing matches, in what is effectively a technical knock-out.
As we shall see, it lost it in the tech ring, so it took its fight into the street, and hit Google below the belt.
Several times.
Losing the Tech Fights
Consider [...]
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The GoogleGazer noticed two days ago that Google searches no longer returned results from the Online Wall Street Journal, even when queries were crafted to elicit hits from WSJ specifically.
News Corp., owner of the Wall Street Journal had long threatened to do exactly that if Google refused to pay them for their content.
Apparently they have, [...]
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Google donated $2 Million to further the development of Wikipedia
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Wired says that as is traditional after a big Apple announcement, at a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, Jobs took questions from Apple employees. In response to a question about Google, Jobs said, “This don’t be evil mantra: ‘It’s bullshit.’”
“Obviously, he was reacting to Google’s push into the phone business, which Apple regards as [...]
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Backing away from its earlier stance, the White House has now officially endorsedGoogle’s position to no longer censor according to China’s whims.
Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today, per MarketWatch:
“We support [Google's] action…in a decision to no longer censor searches that happen using the [Google] platform,” Gibbs told reporters. He added that “our concern is [...]
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The Financial Times says,
One of China’s top propaganda officials on Thursday reaffirmed the state’s commitment to censoring the internet, showing no sign of compromising in the face of Google’s threat to quit the country.
Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office and deputy head of the Communist party’s propaganda department, said internet media [...]
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Kamelia Angelova has a detailed post on Google’s China saga in Silicon Alley Insider. Click on each visual to go on to the next.
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