<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/"/><tagline>Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-07-09T06:21:55+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/l/61249/1/" /><id>61249</id><summary><![CDATA[Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace]]></summary><issued>2008-05-09T12:36:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-09T12:36:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Many, perhaps most, Facebook users do not want Microsoft. They were a little upset when they purchased under 3% of the company. If that becomes 50+%, we will likely see a large-scale exodus. Sadly, it would happen right after Facebook passed MySpace on Alexa.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Microsoft buys 1.6% of Facebook]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39566/1/" /><id>39566</id><summary><![CDATA[Microsoft buys 1.6% of Facebook]]></summary><issued>2007-10-25T14:39:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-25T14:39:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[They beat out google for this small percentage of facebook.  Multiplied out it pushes the value of facebook up to $15 billion.  In case that number doesn't sound all that big, it is $15,000,000,000]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yahoo to say NO to Microsoft]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/l/50078/1/" /><id>50078</id><summary><![CDATA[Yahoo to say NO to Microsoft]]></summary><issued>2008-02-10T20:42:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-10T20:42:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., a person familiar with the situation said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[MS hopes to 'Wallop' MySpace and Facebook]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1147/1/" /><id>1147</id><summary><![CDATA[MS hopes to 'Wallop' MySpace and Facebook]]></summary><issued>2006-09-26T12:20:26+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-26T12:20:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[MS backs new social networking site]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Facebook Creator Says No to $1.6 Bn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/business/l/8122/1/" /><id>8122</id><summary><![CDATA[Facebook Creator Says No to $1.6 Bn]]></summary><issued>2006-12-24T16:18:44+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-24T16:18:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg, the 22-year old creator of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Facebook.com</a> has turned down an offer of $1.6 billion dollars from Yahoo.com for the purchase of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">his site</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/49123/1/" /><id>49123</id><summary><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo]]></summary><issued>2008-02-01T07:08:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-01T07:08:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Microsoft has launched a $44.6bn (&#163;22.4bn) takeover bid for Yahoo in an attempt to challenge the growing might of Google.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12987/1/" /><id>12987</id><summary><![CDATA[Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!]]></summary><issued>2007-03-13T05:07:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-13T05:07:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Microsoft group president Jeff Raikes told an audience in San Francisco last week that the company hopes people, if they&#8217;re going to pirate software, choose to pirate Microsoft software. What&#8217;s Raikes thinking?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yahoo forgets Microsoft, moves ahead with Google]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65329/1/" /><id>65329</id><summary><![CDATA[Yahoo forgets Microsoft, moves ahead with Google]]></summary><issued>2008-06-13T13:46:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-13T13:46:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Google and Yahoo said Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo&#8217;s search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States and Canada.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yahoo Rejected Google One Day Before Microsoft Made Offer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/l/64123/1/" /><id>64123</id><summary><![CDATA[Yahoo Rejected Google One Day Before Microsoft Made Offer]]></summary><issued>2008-06-03T06:57:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-03T06:57:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns, one day before Microsoft Corp made its takeover offer earlier this year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nintendo, Microsoft, Philips Fail Greenpeace Toxic Test]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/environment/l/42789/1/" /><id>42789</id><summary><![CDATA[Nintendo, Microsoft, Philips Fail Greenpeace Toxic Test]]></summary><issued>2007-11-28T21:49:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-28T21:49:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Nintendo completely failed to show any environmental credentials, while Microsoft and Philips do little better.<br/><br/>*Note: Sony scored second highest, at 7.3 (Take that Nintendope and Microshaft)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4283/1/" /><id>4283</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in ]]></summary><issued>2006-10-24T13:43:28+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-24T13:43:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days.  But what do some of its toughest testers think?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Microsoft doomed?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/business/l/49825/1/" /><id>49825</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Microsoft doomed?]]></summary><issued>2008-02-08T00:36:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-08T00:36:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[There, I knew that would draw a crowd. In the maelstrom of comment and analysis that has followed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, two extraordinary assumptions have been very common.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[One More Reason to &#8220;Untag&#8221; Facebook Photos]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28166/1/" /><id>28166</id><summary><![CDATA[One More Reason to &#8220;Untag&#8221; Facebook Photos]]></summary><issued>2007-07-20T12:04:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-20T12:04:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s official, Facebook is officially getting out of hand. Not only do employers use social networking tools such as Facebook or Myspace to check on prospective employees, but now Oxford University has actually used photos as evidence of students violating their code of conduct.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Facebook Users Tapped To Create Online Course]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/l/32730/1/" /><id>32730</id><summary><![CDATA[Facebook Users Tapped To Create Online Course]]></summary><issued>2007-08-22T20:51:29+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-22T20:51:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Thousands of Facebook users are expected to collaborate on an online course at Podclass.com. The topic? How to make money with Facebook apps.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yahoo 'to buy Facebook.com']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/business/l/701/1/" /><id>701</id><summary><![CDATA[Yahoo 'to buy Facebook.com']]></summary><issued>2006-09-21T12:33:53+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-21T12:33:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yahoo may be purchasing Facebook.com for $1 billion.  MySpace sold for $580 million.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rumor: Bungie, Microsoft Breaking Up?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/games/l/37146/1/" /><id>37146</id><summary><![CDATA[Rumor: Bungie, Microsoft Breaking Up?]]></summary><issued>2007-10-02T19:25:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-02T19:25:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In what would surely be the biggest celebrity break-up since Kevin and Britney called it quits, the unsubstantiated, unbelievable rumor of the day on the 'net is that Bungie and Microsoft are splitting up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 will install XP]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/36036/1/" /><id>36036</id><summary><![CDATA[Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 will install XP]]></summary><issued>2007-09-18T10:16:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-18T10:16:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Redmond, WA &#8211; In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/internet/l/57775/1/" /><id>57775</id><summary><![CDATA[Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan]]></summary><issued>2008-04-10T11:28:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-10T11:28:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yahoo and Microsoft are now both flailing wildly in a contest to see who can look most desperate. In the Blue corner, there's Rupert. In the ! corner, there's AOL. And somewhere, the Internet is crying.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[EU probes Microsoft again!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47215/1/" /><id>47215</id><summary><![CDATA[EU probes Microsoft again!]]></summary><issued>2008-01-14T14:02:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-14T14:02:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Look out Microsoft, the EU is coming to get you - again! Should have made Vista better!!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What Happens If Microsoft Buys Yahoo?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/business/l/19332/1/" /><id>19332</id><summary><![CDATA[What Happens If Microsoft Buys Yahoo?]]></summary><issued>2007-05-07T07:11:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-07T07:11:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Although many are calling the rumored merger of Microsoft and Yahoo rampant speculation. What type of web property could these companies build to rival Google?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[My Internet Personality]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62968/1/" /><id>62968</id><summary><![CDATA[My Internet Personality]]></summary><issued>2008-05-23T17:20:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-23T17:20:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Do you have a Facebook account? How about a Myspace account? Your Plime avatar counts as well. Chances are if you know about the internet tubes you have some sort of online personality. Your &quot;away messages&quot; are possibly hidden messages. Possibly. I'm not a fan of people telling me who I am but to some degree these things can be pretty accurate.]]></content></entry></feed>