as fas forward blog reportet..
http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/23/enterprise-20-and-the-wikipedia-battle/
Harvard Prof A. McAfee comments on the Wikipedia Enterprise 2.0 article debate
- Fehler
Enterprise 2.0 battle
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
SAP runs on Red Hat
Friday, July 20th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
source: http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/jul/18/sap_certifies_its_applications_to_run_on_red_hat
Red Hat today announced that SAP AG, the largest provider of business software solutions in the world, has certified the SAP NetWeaver platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform. The certification includes the virtualization technology embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for use with SAP applications.
SAP’s certification helps ensure that all criteria necessary for full interoperability of Red Hat solutions with all modules of SAP NetWeaver are in compliance. All features included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, representing the ideal foundation for enterprise-critical server applications, fulfilled SAP’s certification criteria. Furthermore, it offers a complete solution stack through the integration of Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Cluster Suite, SELinux and further technologies for high availability, storage management and security. The virtualization technologies included in Advanced Platform have been successfully tested by SAP during the certification procedure and can be used in production environments after a general release of virtualized SAP application-based Linux environments over the course of the year.
“Customers can substantially reduce costs, time and effort with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform that would only otherwise be possible through the purchase, implementation and maintenance of software for virtualization, storage management and high availability,” said Werner Knoblich, vice president and general manager EMEA at Red Hat. “At the end of the day, with Advanced Platform, customers can put their money back into their core business instead of investing heavily in costly infrastructure. This certification of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by SAP, a Red Hat Premium Partner, underlines the close partnership of the two market leaders and brings additional innovation and investment security for enterprise customers.”
Red Hat holds the largest worldwide open source eco-system, presently with more than 1,600 certified ISV Partners
Internet as Operating system
Monday, July 16th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
Innovation Creators blog mentioned last week’s article on Internet platforms and Internet as the new operating system:
http://www.innovationcreators.com/wp/
Going from killer app to major Web platform
link: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6196341.html?tag=nl.e622
What will happen to Linkedin after Facebook opened up for working people.
The german studivz could not open so easy because of its name… and tries to implemt new services on its own instead of creating open api’s
After some research… at wikipedia is a full list of all Google aquisitions
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
short overview: http://www.paydayloanaffiliate.com/blog/GooglesAcquisitionReportCard.aspx
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
for the reference click on the wikipedia article
List of Google acquisitions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This is a listing of Google’s corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.
Acquisition Date
Company/Product
Business Area
Value (USD)
References
2001
September 20, 2001
Deja’s Usenet archive
Google Groups.
undisclosed
[1]
September 20, 2001
Outride, Inc.
Spin-off from Xerox PARC.
undisclosed
[2]
2003
February, 2003
Pyra Labs
Blogger.
undisclosed
[3]
April, 2003
Neotonic Software
CRM technology.
undisclosed
[4]
April, 2003
Applied Semantics
Advertising technology.
$102 million
[5]
September 30, 2003
Kaltix
Search engine technology.
undisclosed
[6]
October, 2003
Sprinks
Paid listings unit of Primedia.
undisclosed
[7]
October, 2003
Genius Labs
Blogging
undisclosed
[8]
2004
May 10, 2004
Ignite Logic
Website creation technology.
undisclosed
[9]
June 23, 2004
Baidu (2.6% stake)
Chinese language search engine. All shares were sold in June, 2006
$5 million
[10][11]
July 13, 2004
Picasa.
Photo management software.
undisclosed
[12]
October 27, 2004
Keyhole, Inc.
Mapping software; used in Google Earth.
undisclosed
[13]
Sept.-Dec., 2004
Where2
Mapping software; used in Google Maps.
undisclosed
[14]
Sept.-Dec., 2004
ZipDash
Used in Google Ride Finder.
undisclosed
[14]
2005
ca. 2005
2Web Technologies
Web-based spreadsheet.
undisclosed
[15]
ca. 2005
Phatbits
Widgets engine.
undisclosed
[16]
March 28, 2005
Urchin Software Corporation
Web analysis.
undisclosed
[17]
May 12, 2005
Dodgeball
Social networking.
undisclosed
[18]
July, 2005
Reqwireless
Web browser and Mobile email.
undisclosed
[19]
July 7, 2005
Current Communications Group
Broadband internet.
$100 million (partial investment)
[20]
August 17, 2005
Android
Software for Handheld devices.
undisclosed
[21]
November, 2005
Skia
Graphics software.
undisclosed
[22]
November 17, 2005
Akwan Information Technologies
Latin American internet operations.
undisclosed
[23]
December 20, 2005
AOL (5% stake)
Internet.
$1 billion
[24]
2006
January 17, 2006
dMarc Broadcasting
Radio advertising software and platform.
$102 million
[25]
February 14, 2006
Measure Map
Blog analysis.
undisclosed
[26]
March 9, 2006
Upstartle
Writely, online word processing.
undisclosed
[27]
March 14, 2006
@Last Software
SketchUp, 3-D modeling.
undisclosed
[28]
April 9, 2006
Orion
Advanced search method.
undisclosed
[29]
August 15, 2006
Neven Vision
Computer vision
undisclosed
[30]
October 31, 2006
JotSpot
Website applications
undisclosed
[31]
November, 2006
YouTube
Video sharing
$1.65 billion
[32]
December, 2006
Endoxon
Mapping solutions
$28 million
[33]
2007
January, 2007
Xunlei (partial acquisition)
Network, file-sharing.
undisclosed
[34]
February, 2007
Adscape
Video game advertising
$23 million
[35]
March, 2007
Trendalyzer
Software
undisclosed
[36]
April, 2007
Tonic Systems
Presentation software
undisclosed
[37]
April, 2007
Marratech video conferencing software
Video conferencing
undisclosed
[38]
May 11, 2007
GreenBorder Technologies
Desktop enterprise security
undisclosed
[39]
June 1, 2007
Panoramio
Geospatial Photo-sharing Service
undisclosed
[39]
June 3, 2007
FeedBurner
Online RSS Feeds
$100 million
[40]
June 5, 2007
PeakStream
Parallel Processing
undisclosed
[41]
June, 2007
Zenter
Presentations Software
undisclosed
[42]
July 2, 2007
GrandCentral
VOIP Phone Aggregation
$45 million
[43]
[edit] Pending acquisitions
Pending acquisition means that the purchase was confirmed, but not executed yet. The execution can take from several days to several months depending on the size and position of the two involved companies and on the impact of the acquisition on the market place. Even if both companies agree on the deal this does not mean that it will actually happen. In some cases regulatory approvals by 3rd parties are required (e.g. government). The deal goes bust if the required approvals cannot be obtained.
Acquisition Date
Company/Product
Business Area
Value (USD)
References
2007
April 13, 2007
DoubleClick
Online Advertising
$3.1 billion
[44]
July 9, 2007
Postini
Communications Security
$625 million
[45]
Innovation from Acquisitions? Google and Microsoft – an Overview
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
To answer the question if Google is more innovative than Microsoft you should include their acquisititions argumentation…
Also you should consider Google also bought Youtube, partners with MySpace and in future their own VC company Sequoia definitly will incubate more innovative companies ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/ )
For example IPTV Joost you could include in Youtube to get Google on also TV. But there are a lot more…
Overview on current internet companies Sequoia Captial is invested http://www.sequoiacap.com/company/?sector=17
First an overview about Google from Dare Obasanjo aka Carnegie for life
I also recommend to read his full article on that topic:
source: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/09/LessonsOnInnovationFromGoogle.aspx
Good Ideas Often Come from Outside your Box: (..)
Acquired Company/Product
Google Product
Applied Semantics
Google AdSense
Kaltix
Google Personalized Search
Keyhole Corp.
Google Earth
Where2
Google Maps
ZipDash
Google Ride Finder
2Web Technologies
Google Spreadsheets
Upstartle
Google Docs
Urchin Software Corporation + Measure Map
Google Analytics
Zenter + Tonic Systems
Unreleased Google Web-based Presentation application
So, as you can see… the full office 2.0 is coming, the powerpoint application is already bought
Here is an complete historical overview on the Microsoft innovations based on their acquisitions :
from: http://www.mcmillan.cx/innovation.html, thanks for the collection from the whole bunch of webpages
Microsoft “Innovation”
Contents
- C Compiler
- Common Internet File System
- DirectX
- DOS
- Flight Simulator
- Frontpage
- Intellimouse Explorer’s Optical Tracking Technology
- Internet Explorer
- Powerpoint
- RPC
- SQL Server
- Standard C++ Library
- TCP/IP Stack
- TrueType
- Visual Basic
- Windows
- Windows NT
click on the links!
Microsoft technical evangelist presents Silverlight Applications
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
Here you get a nice overview on the possiblities of MS Silverlight the Adobe Flex Competitors
from: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/07/from-a-to-z-50-silverlight-applications.aspx
From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications
It’s great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out there. I spent a happy hour this morning searching around the Internet for examples and samples, and thought I’d aggregate the fruits of my research below.
If you’ve just installed Silverlight on your machine and want to see it “do” something, click around the fifty links below to explore. Some of these samples require the Silverlight 1.1 alpha release (Windows install / Mac install), so if you get an error, try installing the 1.1 release. (Incidentally, the 1.1 alpha release contains the 1.0 beta bits, so you just need to install from the link above and you’re good to go.)
I should probably just add the disclaimer that since these are hosted on a variety of external servers, it’s almost guaranteed that some of the links will be broken at any given time. Have fun!
Web 2.0 and Generation Y moves in the Companies
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
from: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/58200.html
Facing Web 2.0 Fear in the Enterprise
By John Martellaro
The Mac Observer
07/08/07 4:00 AM PT
The scary part of Web 2.0 is that it infringes on the historical IT control and power. That creates problems in a modern knowledge-based environment. “Part of the job of a CIO is to create policies that prevent artificial pockets of power based on secrets and individuals exploiting power and not sharing it,” said JP Rangaswami CIO of global services at BT.
pinpoints problems earlier with Systems Insight Manager software — and Integrated Lights-Out Management lets you manage multiple operating systems remotely.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) /perl/search.pl?query=Apple&scope=network/perl/search.pl?query=Apple&scope=networkhas embraced Web 2.0 as the core of its new iPhone technologies. However, some in the enterprise are fearful of the open, collaborative Web 2.0, according to LinuxWorld.
“Few technological shifts in recent memory have challenged corporate America the way Web 2.0 is doing right now,” wrote Diann Daniel. “What if any role does Web 2.0 have in the enterprise?”
Answering that question can start uncomfortable conversations with CIOs who aren’t happy with its openness and don’t know how to fit it into their infrastructur, or even comfortable with the way the world is supposed to operate.
‘An Interesting Reversal’
“Web 2.0 technologies are coming in from the consumer space, and it’s an interesting reversal,” said John Hagel, longtime Web 2.0 consultant. He believes that “the norms, standards and mindset of the Web 2.0 crowd are quite different from the typically older current C-suite.” (Referring to C-level executives, CEO, CIO, COO, CTO, etc.)
The scary part of Web 2.0 is that it infringes on the historical IT control and power. That creates problems in a modern knowledge-based environment. “Part of the job of a CIO is to create policies that prevent artificial pockets of power based on secrets and individuals exploiting power and not sharing it,” said JP Rangaswami CIO of global services at British Telecom, a passionate supporter of Web 2.0 and open source. “Personally I want to see those pockets of power destroyed.”
The problem will become more and pronounced as college students, trained on collaborative tools, cell phones, MySpace, texting, IM, wikis and so on, move into corporate America, where information hoarding and secrecy is sometimes the norm. “Not considering [Web 2.0 tools] is like saying we’re not considering e-mail. It’s another mode of communication that you can use for streamlining, outreach and information gathering,” said Sylvia Marino, executive director of Edmunds’ CarSpace.com.
Expected Demand
Not only will the next generation of new hires demand these kinds of collaborative tools, the customers of the companies who hire them will as well. A study by Booz Allen said, “Web 2.0 seems to cut across age and gender and — more importantly to businesses — it influences purchase decisions. The study’s conclusion: “The need to evolve existing business models by integrating the Web 2.0 environment is urgent.”
Apple’s youthful culture is certainly one of the driving forces behind the iPhone and its Web 2.0 support. Once again, by embracing open standards, Apple is driving the technical flow in many cases, especially small to medium-sized business where reports claim they’re gaining market share.
A few stalwart companies may decide to drag their feet with Web 2.0, but they could be left behind, wondering why their customers and business have drifted away to another, younger generation
Web companies working on next generation Social Networks
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
I am not which features they are going to add but to compete with myspace and facebook they need to have some very fancy feature to get the people change to other networks. Facebook and MySpace both enhance their platforms continuously wih new features e.g. a twitter like information service..
from Mr Techcrunch Michael Arrington yesterday:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/
Google, Yahoo Both Working On Next Generation Social Networks
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It’s a busy Sunday evening – first the news on Yahoo Mosh, and now news that Google is working on its own next generation social networking service called Socialstream, possibly to take the spotlight away from the ailing Orkut.
Yahoo Mosh
We don’t know much yet, other than the project exists, it will be launched at mosh.yahoo.com and is being called a “new cool social network product” within Yahoo. No screen shots are available yet. See our earlier post for more.
Google Socialstream
Google Operating System is reporting
that Google is sponsoring a project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute to “rethink and reinvent online social networking.” The project is called Socialstream. Click on the image for a larger view.
The project goal is to “create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.” More information is available deeper in the site:
Socialstream emphasizes improving social connections by making it more efficient to communicate with, share with, and view the social content of all the people in a user’s online social network. Socialstream provides a compelling user experience because it aggregates content across many different networks so a user has a single location to discover new content and communicate. The goal of Socialstream is to present social information in a way that ties it to the person who posted the information, and not the site from which it came.
The feature set and use cases suggest this will be more of an aggregator of existing social networking sites and features. There is absolutely no indication of whether or not this will be productized and launched at this time.
This video gives a good overview of the interface and features:
Red Hat – Microsoft negotiations?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
eWeek’s Linux Watch was talking to Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s executive VP of engineering about potential interoperability negotiations with Microsoft.
Every Linux vendor first refuse all partnerships but in the meantime the are all going to partner with MS. Is it to increase market share or prevent a potential Microsoft lawsuit due to patent right violations? first steps to an upcoming “civil war” ? A lot of news pages asked this in the last weeks…
source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2154521,00.asp
Red Hat to MS: Let’s Talk Interoperability
Peter Galli
July 3, 2007
Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front.
But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux, with the goal of solving real customer problems, Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK.
“I want to talk to the folks at Microsoft about our two operating systems and how we can work together to solve real customer problems without attaching any unrelated strings, such as intellectual property,” he said.
While Cormier declined to comment on why its earlier talks with Microsoft fell through, he ruled out any possibility of Red Hat doing a deal with Microsoft like the controversial patent agreement and covenant not to sue that Redmond penned with Novell last year, especially after viewing the limited information that is publicly available on that deal.
But Microsoft officials said their position is that the issues of interoperability and intellectual property are not completely separate, and have to be considered together, meaning there is a de facto standoff between it and Red Hat on this issue.
While Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s senior vice president for server and tools, told eWEEK recently that the company would be happy to work with Red Hat and others on interoperability, he noted that it still has to think about intellectual property, the licensing of that, and the issues around it, which are not totally separate issues.
“So, in terms of helping to drive conversations with those guys, we’re open to talking to them about interoperability; we’re always open to talking about this,” Muglia said.
“But it is necessary to have a conversation about intellectual property when it comes to open source, and you can’t just sit back and talk about interoperability for interoperability’s sake without fully solving the customer issue. Unless you actually address the issues around IP, you haven’t fully solved the customer’s interoperability problem,” Muglia said.
Cormier disagrees with that assessment, saying that there is a long history in the industry where open standards, open interfaces and vendors willing to put customers first have been able to readily solve any interoperability challenge. “We are prepared to do our part,” he said.
For Muglia and Microsoft, it is not that simple. While it is one thing to talk about how open-source technologies could interoperate with Microsoft software, “you have to complete the picture,” he said, adding that Microsoft already supports Red Hat software in its current Virtual Server product.
While Muglia acknowledged that interoperability work could take place without tacking on the IP issue, he is reluctant to do so.
“We do know how to do this and there are ways in which we can have interoperability work without the IP conversation,” Muglia said. “My main point about IP is that you actually haven’t solved the customer’s interoperability problem unless you have also solved the licensing issue,” he said, pointing out that Red Hat is now also a member of the Interoperability Vendor Alliance.
When Red Hat joined the Alliance, Shaun Connolly, the vice president of product management for JBoss, a division of Red Hat, said in a press release that “enterprise customers count on Red Hat to run their businesses, and they expect nothing less than the ability to leverage Red Hat solutions with their existing technology investments. Through the alliance, we will work with industry vendors to ensure that the Red Hat customer experience is transparent and seamless in spite of heterogeneous environments.”
Muglia, when asked if the topic of interoperability and support for Linux distributions other than SUSE Linux has come up at its Interoperability Executive Customer Council, said it had, and again pointed the finger directly at Red Hat.
“But our message was really very simple: ‘go and talk to Red Hat, because we very much would like to do that,’” he said.
Hawala Online and Virtual Currencies
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf
Some information from my research on my diploma topic…
There is a more or less new paper from The Risk Management Group - TRMG, (also works for the British government on this) which is about the ancient Hawala money trade system and compares it to new online currencies like the Second Life Linden Dollars.
Hawala is like the predecesor of a western union bank transfer..
The report shows the problems which will occu with money laundering and tax evasion if new virtual and online currencies arise on the horizon. Also the UN reported on the problem of the Hawala System for terror financing. Did you ever thought about why there are so many telephone calling shops and how they pay there rent with 0.5ct/min calls worldwide? Then read the Interpol website – perhaps it is a bank..
I think Linden Dollars are only the beginning and we will soon see other currencies. Perhaps also Pay Pal or other companies like this create e-Gold or real HappyDigits (from German Telekom)..There was also a good presentation from the analyst of Gartner “The Future of Money” at IT Expo this year.
Here are some links from Wikipedia:
- Interpol: The hawala alternative remittance system and its role in money laundering (Das alternative Überweisungssystem Hawala und seine Rolle bei Geldwäsche)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Jost, Patrick M. (January 2000). The hawala alternative remittance system and its role in money laundering. Interpol.
- Ballard, Roger. A collection of academic papers exploring the operation of contemporary hawala networks, and the role they play in the transmission of migrant workers’ remittances from Europe to South Asia
- “Fears over US hawala crackdown“, BBC, February 4, 2004.
- CBC’s “Money-transfer systems, hawala style”
- Wilson, John F. et al, Informal Funds Transfer Systems: An Analysis of the Hawala System, International Monetary Fund, October, 2003
“US ends Somali banking blacklist“, BBC, August 28, 2006. Retrieved on February 24.
- Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006), ISBN 3-8655-0656-9
The TRMG article from the headline
http://trmg.org/uploads/hawala-online-v13.pdf
At TRMG, training stuff, there is also another article on online currencies…
Enterprise 2.0 battle
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfSAP runs on Red Hat
Friday, July 20th, 2007 by Michael Altendorfsource: http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/jul/18/sap_certifies_its_applications_to_run_on_red_hat
Red Hat today announced that SAP AG, the largest provider of business software solutions in the world, has certified the SAP NetWeaver platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform. The certification includes the virtualization technology embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for use with SAP applications.
SAP’s certification helps ensure that all criteria necessary for full interoperability of Red Hat solutions with all modules of SAP NetWeaver are in compliance. All features included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, representing the ideal foundation for enterprise-critical server applications, fulfilled SAP’s certification criteria. Furthermore, it offers a complete solution stack through the integration of Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Cluster Suite, SELinux and further technologies for high availability, storage management and security. The virtualization technologies included in Advanced Platform have been successfully tested by SAP during the certification procedure and can be used in production environments after a general release of virtualized SAP application-based Linux environments over the course of the year.
“Customers can substantially reduce costs, time and effort with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform that would only otherwise be possible through the purchase, implementation and maintenance of software for virtualization, storage management and high availability,” said Werner Knoblich, vice president and general manager EMEA at Red Hat. “At the end of the day, with Advanced Platform, customers can put their money back into their core business instead of investing heavily in costly infrastructure. This certification of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by SAP, a Red Hat Premium Partner, underlines the close partnership of the two market leaders and brings additional innovation and investment security for enterprise customers.”
Red Hat holds the largest worldwide open source eco-system, presently with more than 1,600 certified ISV Partners
Internet as Operating system
Monday, July 16th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfInnovation Creators blog mentioned last week’s article on Internet platforms and Internet as the new operating system:
http://www.innovationcreators.com/wp/
Going from killer app to major Web platform
link: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6196341.html?tag=nl.e622
What will happen to Linkedin after Facebook opened up for working people.
The german studivz could not open so easy because of its name… and tries to implemt new services on its own instead of creating open api’s
After some research… at wikipedia is a full list of all Google aquisitions
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 by Michael Altendorfshort overview: http://www.paydayloanaffiliate.com/blog/GooglesAcquisitionReportCard.aspx
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
for the reference click on the wikipedia article
List of Google acquisitions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This is a listing of Google’s corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.
| Acquisition Date | Company/Product | Business Area | Value (USD) | References | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | ||||||
| September 20, 2001 | Deja’s Usenet archive | Google Groups. | undisclosed | [1] | ||
| September 20, 2001 | Outride, Inc. | Spin-off from Xerox PARC. | undisclosed | [2] | ||
| 2003 | ||||||
| February, 2003 | Pyra Labs | Blogger. | undisclosed | [3] | ||
| April, 2003 | Neotonic Software | CRM technology. | undisclosed | [4] | ||
| April, 2003 | Applied Semantics | Advertising technology. | $102 million | [5] | ||
| September 30, 2003 | Kaltix | Search engine technology. | undisclosed | [6] | ||
| October, 2003 | Sprinks | Paid listings unit of Primedia. | undisclosed | [7] | ||
| October, 2003 | Genius Labs | Blogging | undisclosed | [8] | ||
| 2004 | ||||||
| May 10, 2004 | Ignite Logic | Website creation technology. | undisclosed | [9] | ||
| June 23, 2004 | Baidu (2.6% stake) | Chinese language search engine. All shares were sold in June, 2006 | $5 million | [10][11] | ||
| July 13, 2004 | Picasa. | Photo management software. | undisclosed | [12] | ||
| October 27, 2004 | Keyhole, Inc. | Mapping software; used in Google Earth. | undisclosed | [13] | ||
| Sept.-Dec., 2004 | Where2 | Mapping software; used in Google Maps. | undisclosed | [14] | ||
| Sept.-Dec., 2004 | ZipDash | Used in Google Ride Finder. | undisclosed | [14] | ||
| 2005 | ||||||
| ca. 2005 | 2Web Technologies | Web-based spreadsheet. | undisclosed | [15] | ||
| ca. 2005 | Phatbits | Widgets engine. | undisclosed | [16] | ||
| March 28, 2005 | Urchin Software Corporation | Web analysis. | undisclosed | [17] | ||
| May 12, 2005 | Dodgeball | Social networking. | undisclosed | [18] | ||
| July, 2005 | Reqwireless | Web browser and Mobile email. | undisclosed | [19] | ||
| July 7, 2005 | Current Communications Group | Broadband internet. | $100 million (partial investment) | [20] | ||
| August 17, 2005 | Android | Software for Handheld devices. | undisclosed | [21] | ||
| November, 2005 | Skia | Graphics software. | undisclosed | [22] | ||
| November 17, 2005 | Akwan Information Technologies | Latin American internet operations. | undisclosed | [23] | ||
| December 20, 2005 | AOL (5% stake) | Internet. | $1 billion | [24] | ||
| 2006 | ||||||
| January 17, 2006 | dMarc Broadcasting | Radio advertising software and platform. | $102 million | [25] | ||
| February 14, 2006 | Measure Map | Blog analysis. | undisclosed | [26] | ||
| March 9, 2006 | Upstartle | Writely, online word processing. | undisclosed | [27] | ||
| March 14, 2006 | @Last Software | SketchUp, 3-D modeling. | undisclosed | [28] | ||
| April 9, 2006 | Orion | Advanced search method. | undisclosed | [29] | ||
| August 15, 2006 | Neven Vision | Computer vision | undisclosed | [30] | ||
| October 31, 2006 | JotSpot | Website applications | undisclosed | [31] | ||
| November, 2006 | YouTube | Video sharing | $1.65 billion | [32] | ||
| December, 2006 | Endoxon | Mapping solutions | $28 million | [33] | ||
| 2007 | ||||||
| January, 2007 | Xunlei (partial acquisition) | Network, file-sharing. | undisclosed | [34] | ||
| February, 2007 | Adscape | Video game advertising | $23 million | [35] | ||
| March, 2007 | Trendalyzer | Software | undisclosed | [36] | ||
| April, 2007 | Tonic Systems | Presentation software | undisclosed | [37] | ||
| April, 2007 | Marratech video conferencing software | Video conferencing | undisclosed | [38] | ||
| May 11, 2007 | GreenBorder Technologies | Desktop enterprise security | undisclosed | [39] | ||
| June 1, 2007 | Panoramio | Geospatial Photo-sharing Service | undisclosed | [39] | ||
| June 3, 2007 | FeedBurner | Online RSS Feeds | $100 million | [40] | ||
| June 5, 2007 | PeakStream | Parallel Processing | undisclosed | [41] | ||
| June, 2007 | Zenter | Presentations Software | undisclosed | [42] | ||
| July 2, 2007 | GrandCentral | VOIP Phone Aggregation | $45 million | [43] | ||
[edit] Pending acquisitions
Pending acquisition means that the purchase was confirmed, but not executed yet. The execution can take from several days to several months depending on the size and position of the two involved companies and on the impact of the acquisition on the market place. Even if both companies agree on the deal this does not mean that it will actually happen. In some cases regulatory approvals by 3rd parties are required (e.g. government). The deal goes bust if the required approvals cannot be obtained.
| Acquisition Date | Company/Product | Business Area | Value (USD) | References | ||
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| 2007 | ||||||
| April 13, 2007 | DoubleClick | Online Advertising | $3.1 billion | [44] | ||
| July 9, 2007 | Postini | Communications Security | $625 million | [45] | ||
Innovation from Acquisitions? Google and Microsoft – an Overview
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfTo answer the question if Google is more innovative than Microsoft you should include their acquisititions argumentation…
Also you should consider Google also bought Youtube, partners with MySpace and in future their own VC company Sequoia definitly will incubate more innovative companies ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/ )
For example IPTV Joost you could include in Youtube to get Google on also TV. But there are a lot more…
Overview on current internet companies Sequoia Captial is invested http://www.sequoiacap.com/company/?sector=17
First an overview about Google from Dare Obasanjo aka Carnegie for life
I also recommend to read his full article on that topic:
source: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/09/LessonsOnInnovationFromGoogle.aspx
Good Ideas Often Come from Outside your Box: (..)
| Acquired Company/Product | Google Product |
|---|---|
| Applied Semantics | Google AdSense |
| Kaltix | Google Personalized Search |
| Keyhole Corp. | Google Earth |
| Where2 | Google Maps |
| ZipDash | Google Ride Finder |
| 2Web Technologies | Google Spreadsheets |
| Upstartle | Google Docs |
| Urchin Software Corporation + Measure Map | Google Analytics |
| Zenter + Tonic Systems | Unreleased Google Web-based Presentation application |
So, as you can see… the full office 2.0 is coming, the powerpoint application is already bought
Here is an complete historical overview on the Microsoft innovations based on their acquisitions :
from: http://www.mcmillan.cx/innovation.html, thanks for the collection from the whole bunch of webpages
Microsoft “Innovation”
Contents
- C Compiler
- Common Internet File System
- DirectX
- DOS
- Flight Simulator
- Frontpage
- Intellimouse Explorer’s Optical Tracking Technology
- Internet Explorer
- Powerpoint
- RPC
- SQL Server
- Standard C++ Library
- TCP/IP Stack
- TrueType
- Visual Basic
- Windows
- Windows NT
click on the links!
Microsoft technical evangelist presents Silverlight Applications
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfHere you get a nice overview on the possiblities of MS Silverlight the Adobe Flex Competitors
from: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/07/from-a-to-z-50-silverlight-applications.aspx
From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications
It’s great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out there. I spent a happy hour this morning searching around the Internet for examples and samples, and thought I’d aggregate the fruits of my research below.
If you’ve just installed Silverlight on your machine and want to see it “do” something, click around the fifty links below to explore. Some of these samples require the Silverlight 1.1 alpha release (Windows install / Mac install), so if you get an error, try installing the 1.1 release. (Incidentally, the 1.1 alpha release contains the 1.0 beta bits, so you just need to install from the link above and you’re good to go.)
I should probably just add the disclaimer that since these are hosted on a variety of external servers, it’s almost guaranteed that some of the links will be broken at any given time. Have fun!
Web 2.0 and Generation Y moves in the Companies
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael Altendorffrom: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/58200.html
Facing Web 2.0 Fear in the Enterprise
By John Martellaro
The Mac Observer
07/08/07 4:00 AM PT
The scary part of Web 2.0 is that it infringes on the historical IT control and power. That creates problems in a modern knowledge-based environment. “Part of the job of a CIO is to create policies that prevent artificial pockets of power based on secrets and individuals exploiting power and not sharing it,” said JP Rangaswami CIO of global services at BT.
pinpoints problems earlier with Systems Insight Manager software — and Integrated Lights-Out Management lets you manage multiple operating systems remotely.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) /perl/search.pl?query=Apple&scope=network/perl/search.pl?query=Apple&scope=networkhas embraced Web 2.0 as the core of its new iPhone technologies. However, some in the enterprise are fearful of the open, collaborative Web 2.0, according to LinuxWorld.
“Few technological shifts in recent memory have challenged corporate America the way Web 2.0 is doing right now,” wrote Diann Daniel. “What if any role does Web 2.0 have in the enterprise?”
Answering that question can start uncomfortable conversations with CIOs who aren’t happy with its openness and don’t know how to fit it into their infrastructur, or even comfortable with the way the world is supposed to operate.
‘An Interesting Reversal’
“Web 2.0 technologies are coming in from the consumer space, and it’s an interesting reversal,” said John Hagel, longtime Web 2.0 consultant. He believes that “the norms, standards and mindset of the Web 2.0 crowd are quite different from the typically older current C-suite.” (Referring to C-level executives, CEO, CIO, COO, CTO, etc.)
The scary part of Web 2.0 is that it infringes on the historical IT control and power. That creates problems in a modern knowledge-based environment. “Part of the job of a CIO is to create policies that prevent artificial pockets of power based on secrets and individuals exploiting power and not sharing it,” said JP Rangaswami CIO of global services at British Telecom, a passionate supporter of Web 2.0 and open source. “Personally I want to see those pockets of power destroyed.”
The problem will become more and pronounced as college students, trained on collaborative tools, cell phones, MySpace, texting, IM, wikis and so on, move into corporate America, where information hoarding and secrecy is sometimes the norm. “Not considering [Web 2.0 tools] is like saying we’re not considering e-mail. It’s another mode of communication that you can use for streamlining, outreach and information gathering,” said Sylvia Marino, executive director of Edmunds’ CarSpace.com.
Expected Demand
Not only will the next generation of new hires demand these kinds of collaborative tools, the customers of the companies who hire them will as well. A study by Booz Allen said, “Web 2.0 seems to cut across age and gender and — more importantly to businesses — it influences purchase decisions. The study’s conclusion: “The need to evolve existing business models by integrating the Web 2.0 environment is urgent.”
Apple’s youthful culture is certainly one of the driving forces behind the iPhone and its Web 2.0 support. Once again, by embracing open standards, Apple is driving the technical flow in many cases, especially small to medium-sized business where reports claim they’re gaining market share.
A few stalwart companies may decide to drag their feet with Web 2.0, but they could be left behind, wondering why their customers and business have drifted away to another, younger generation
Web companies working on next generation Social Networks
Monday, July 9th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfI am not which features they are going to add but to compete with myspace and facebook they need to have some very fancy feature to get the people change to other networks. Facebook and MySpace both enhance their platforms continuously wih new features e.g. a twitter like information service..
from Mr Techcrunch Michael Arrington yesterday:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/
Google, Yahoo Both Working On Next Generation Social Networks
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It’s a busy Sunday evening – first the news on Yahoo Mosh, and now news that Google is working on its own next generation social networking service called Socialstream, possibly to take the spotlight away from the ailing Orkut.
Yahoo Mosh
We don’t know much yet, other than the project exists, it will be launched at mosh.yahoo.com and is being called a “new cool social network product” within Yahoo. No screen shots are available yet. See our earlier post for more.
Google Socialstream
Google Operating System is reporting that Google is sponsoring a project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute to “rethink and reinvent online social networking.” The project is called Socialstream. Click on the image for a larger view.
The project goal is to “create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.” More information is available deeper in the site:
Socialstream emphasizes improving social connections by making it more efficient to communicate with, share with, and view the social content of all the people in a user’s online social network. Socialstream provides a compelling user experience because it aggregates content across many different networks so a user has a single location to discover new content and communicate. The goal of Socialstream is to present social information in a way that ties it to the person who posted the information, and not the site from which it came.
The feature set and use cases suggest this will be more of an aggregator of existing social networking sites and features. There is absolutely no indication of whether or not this will be productized and launched at this time.
This video gives a good overview of the interface and features:
Red Hat – Microsoft negotiations?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfeWeek’s Linux Watch was talking to Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s executive VP of engineering about potential interoperability negotiations with Microsoft.
Every Linux vendor first refuse all partnerships but in the meantime the are all going to partner with MS. Is it to increase market share or prevent a potential Microsoft lawsuit due to patent right violations? first steps to an upcoming “civil war” ? A lot of news pages asked this in the last weeks…
source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2154521,00.asp
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Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front.
But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux, with the goal of solving real customer problems, Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK.
“I want to talk to the folks at Microsoft about our two operating systems and how we can work together to solve real customer problems without attaching any unrelated strings, such as intellectual property,” he said.
While Cormier declined to comment on why its earlier talks with Microsoft fell through, he ruled out any possibility of Red Hat doing a deal with Microsoft like the controversial patent agreement and covenant not to sue that Redmond penned with Novell last year, especially after viewing the limited information that is publicly available on that deal.
But Microsoft officials said their position is that the issues of interoperability and intellectual property are not completely separate, and have to be considered together, meaning there is a de facto standoff between it and Red Hat on this issue.
While Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s senior vice president for server and tools, told eWEEK recently that the company would be happy to work with Red Hat and others on interoperability, he noted that it still has to think about intellectual property, the licensing of that, and the issues around it, which are not totally separate issues.
“So, in terms of helping to drive conversations with those guys, we’re open to talking to them about interoperability; we’re always open to talking about this,” Muglia said.
“But it is necessary to have a conversation about intellectual property when it comes to open source, and you can’t just sit back and talk about interoperability for interoperability’s sake without fully solving the customer issue. Unless you actually address the issues around IP, you haven’t fully solved the customer’s interoperability problem,” Muglia said.
Cormier disagrees with that assessment, saying that there is a long history in the industry where open standards, open interfaces and vendors willing to put customers first have been able to readily solve any interoperability challenge. “We are prepared to do our part,” he said.
For Muglia and Microsoft, it is not that simple. While it is one thing to talk about how open-source technologies could interoperate with Microsoft software, “you have to complete the picture,” he said, adding that Microsoft already supports Red Hat software in its current Virtual Server product.
While Muglia acknowledged that interoperability work could take place without tacking on the IP issue, he is reluctant to do so.
“We do know how to do this and there are ways in which we can have interoperability work without the IP conversation,” Muglia said. “My main point about IP is that you actually haven’t solved the customer’s interoperability problem unless you have also solved the licensing issue,” he said, pointing out that Red Hat is now also a member of the Interoperability Vendor Alliance.
When Red Hat joined the Alliance, Shaun Connolly, the vice president of product management for JBoss, a division of Red Hat, said in a press release that “enterprise customers count on Red Hat to run their businesses, and they expect nothing less than the ability to leverage Red Hat solutions with their existing technology investments. Through the alliance, we will work with industry vendors to ensure that the Red Hat customer experience is transparent and seamless in spite of heterogeneous environments.”
Muglia, when asked if the topic of interoperability and support for Linux distributions other than SUSE Linux has come up at its Interoperability Executive Customer Council, said it had, and again pointed the finger directly at Red Hat.
“But our message was really very simple: ‘go and talk to Red Hat, because we very much would like to do that,’” he said.
Hawala Online and Virtual Currencies
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 by Michael AltendorfSome information from my research on my diploma topic…
There is a more or less new paper from The Risk Management Group - TRMG, (also works for the British government on this) which is about the ancient Hawala money trade system and compares it to new online currencies like the Second Life Linden Dollars.
Hawala is like the predecesor of a western union bank transfer..
The report shows the problems which will occu with money laundering and tax evasion if new virtual and online currencies arise on the horizon. Also the UN reported on the problem of the Hawala System for terror financing. Did you ever thought about why there are so many telephone calling shops and how they pay there rent with 0.5ct/min calls worldwide? Then read the Interpol website – perhaps it is a bank..
I think Linden Dollars are only the beginning and we will soon see other currencies. Perhaps also Pay Pal or other companies like this create e-Gold or real HappyDigits (from German Telekom)..There was also a good presentation from the analyst of Gartner “The Future of Money” at IT Expo this year.
Here are some links from Wikipedia:
- Interpol: The hawala alternative remittance system and its role in money laundering (Das alternative Überweisungssystem Hawala und seine Rolle bei Geldwäsche)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Jost, Patrick M. (January 2000). The hawala alternative remittance system and its role in money laundering. Interpol.
- Ballard, Roger. A collection of academic papers exploring the operation of contemporary hawala networks, and the role they play in the transmission of migrant workers’ remittances from Europe to South Asia
- “Fears over US hawala crackdown“, BBC, February 4, 2004.
- CBC’s “Money-transfer systems, hawala style”
- Wilson, John F. et al, Informal Funds Transfer Systems: An Analysis of the Hawala System, International Monetary Fund, October, 2003
“US ends Somali banking blacklist“, BBC, August 28, 2006. Retrieved on February 24.
- Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006), ISBN 3-8655-0656-9
The TRMG article from the headline
http://trmg.org/uploads/hawala-online-v13.pdf
At TRMG, training stuff, there is also another article on online currencies…