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Building a Social Microsoft Network

On the same day as Google’s I/O began with the announcement of a music service in the cloud, Microsoft bought Skype. Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for one of the most ubiquitous messaging services outside of MSN and Facebook messaging. It probably wasn’t an accident that Microsoft announced their biggest acquisition since 2007 on the same day as Google’s biggest event for the year.

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Microsoft, Multiple Screens & Multiple Platforms

This week ReadWriteWeb announced that Windows Live Messenger is the second most popular app on Facebook. With over 9 million users, Windows Live Messenger is still behind Farmville’s 16 million. Microsoft’s numbers for conversations between Facebook and Windows Live Messenger … Read More

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