<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/l/61249/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft buys 1.6% of Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39566/1/</link><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo to say NO to Microsoft]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/l/50078/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MS hopes to 'Wallop' MySpace and Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1147/1/</link><description><![CDATA[MS backs new social networking site]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo, Microsoft, Philips Fail Greenpeace Toxic Test]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/environment/l/42789/1/</link><description><![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)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/49123/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has launched a $44.6bn (&#163;22.4bn) takeover bid for Yahoo in an attempt to challenge the growing might of Google.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12987/1/</link><description><![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?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo forgets Microsoft, moves ahead with Google]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65329/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook Creator Says No to $1.6 Bn]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/l/8122/1/</link><description><![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>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo Rejected Google One Day Before Microsoft Made Offer]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/l/64123/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4283/1/</link><description><![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?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Microsoft doomed?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/l/49825/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[One More Reason to &#8220;Untag&#8221; Facebook Photos]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28166/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/l/57775/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook Users Tapped To Create Online Course]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/internet/l/32730/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo 'to buy Facebook.com']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/l/701/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Yahoo may be purchasing Facebook.com for $1 billion.  MySpace sold for $580 million.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor: Bungie, Microsoft Breaking Up?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/games/l/37146/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 will install XP]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/36036/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens If Microsoft Buys Yahoo?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/l/19332/1/</link><description><![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?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU probes Microsoft again!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47215/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Look out Microsoft, the EU is coming to get you - again! Should have made Vista better!!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Internet Personality]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62968/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item></channel></rss>