Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

More fuel for the fire

07Nov07

Earlier I had posted about how Facebook had a major investment from Microsoft, and how I didn’t want to be part of that. So I left and ”disabled” my account. 
I am fairly certain that disabled means “I’m not here right now, but go ahead and surf my statistics, Facebook (and your partners).”
Yesterday they announced a new ad application [...]


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Well, I’m out.

26Oct07

Here is something from newsblog on WIRED today:
Breaking: Microsoft Takes $240 Million Stake in Facebook 
…Quoth Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division at Microsoft: “Unfortunately both parties have agreed certain specifics of the business arrangement and the way we’re working together we’ve decided not to disclose at this time.”   [sic]
Update 2: The call has [...]


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