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David Gelles, Joseph Menn, Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters in the FT's San Francisco bureau upload their views - plus tech insights from writers in New York, London and Tokyo
This is sheer madness. What possible relevance could the Brussels Politburo have on whether Oracle buys Sun Microsystems? And don't anyone try that "well, Sun and Oracle do business in the EU too" garbage, either. Should the US Federal Trade Commission have for example vetted VW's buying out of Porsche, or maybe SEAT?? The occupants of the Berlaymont building are behaving like attention craving two year olds. It has been long since high time they go back to only doing what they should do: measuring the bends of bananas and the curves of cucumbers.
Still too costly for most. Once radio apps appeared for iPhone, it seemed more logical to just use phone in lounge at night for mixture of own tracks and radio via home cinema system and mp3 input via dock wanted Sonos system a couple of years back - but now it's not so useful
This tie up is not at the level of chocolate and peanut butter, the big danger here is that as more automated feeds go into Twitter the more people will get turned off by seeing reams of automated updates form LinkedIn and all your other social networks. For marketers there is a benefit to taking a cross channel approach but for users this will only lead to disappointment. Marc Munier @marcmunier http://www.pure360.com
They may not have received the ADDITIONAL $1 billion that would have been paid if Skype met certain, rather optimistic, targets but they DID get $3.1 billion. I hardly see that as "missing out". To get an additional $375 million because Meg Whitman and Ebay were too stupid to ensure that they owned the code must have them smiling all the way to the bank.
The latest Skype news worth mentioning is that its code is soon going to be Open Source for LInux / Unix / BSD. That will certainly have a tumbling effect on the entire VoIP sector and will benefit both the proprietary and Open Source segments of the IT industry. I saw this coming long ago. Since so much quality Open Source VoIP software is currently being produced, this decision by Skype was inevitable. And the soap opera goes on!
Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
David Gelles, a California native, has been hanging around and reporting on Silicon Valley for several years. He joined the FT's San Francisco bureau in 2008 and writes about social networking, clean tech and artificial intelligence.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is facinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Joseph Menn writes about tech security and privacy, digital media, and the computer industry from the San Francisco bureau. He spent a decade covering tech for the Los Angeles Times and therefore remembers the days when pre-revenue dot-coms handed out free bottles of champagne at their launch parties.
Robin Harding is the FT's technology correspondent in Tokyo, following the fortunes of Japan's videogame, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Before that, he was an FT editorial writer in London, having previously worked for various banks and asset managers.
Robin Kwong is the FT's Taipei correspondent and writes about the companies that manufacture the vast majority of the world's computers and gadgets. He is interested in the intricacies of the technology supply chain and how China is increasingly changing the tech landscape.
Tim Bradshaw is the FT's digital media correspondent. Based in London, he has covered start-ups such as Twitter and Spotify, as well as the online ambitions of more established media companies, such as the BBC iPlayer. He also covers the advertising, marketing and video-game industries. Tim has been writing about technology, business and finance since 2003.
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