Microsoft beats google in facebookdeal

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dallas said:

maximrace said:

 

Facebook's "one more thing" at today's Graph Search press conference? A search partnership with Bing. Naturally, Google was the elephant in the room after such an announcement, particularly in light of the fact that Lars Rasmussen has strong ties to the company by way of his connection to Maps and Wave. Asked why he opted not to take his business to Mountain View, Zuck told the crowd,

The main thing is that when people share something on Facebook, we want to give them the ability to broadcast things, but also retract them later, and have them be removed immediately. Microsoft was more willing to do things specific to Facebook.

We've reached out to Google to get its side of the story. We'll let you know what we hear.

 

 

Source: 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/15/zuckerberg-microsoft-more-willing-to-work-with-us-still-open-t/

 

Well done msft!

Well done MSFT??

WTF? 

The MSFT love has gone over the top, lacking reason to find great things to brag about. 

Look, its not like Facebook is going to use google as they are a major competitor, or even second rate search engines like yahoo or whatever. 

It's not going to help msft in the long run at all, according to ycharts Microsoft averaged 5.5% growth year over year for the last five years, while google has averaged 25% .   And MSFT isn't that much bigger at all, for those saying that MSFT is so large that it deserves to be considered a more mature company.  It's not just google, apple is growing a lot faster than MSFT as well, and will up its game as its size gets even bigger.

Expect more mediocrity from this company and if you are an investor with anything but something like a tech fund or an index fund that will just include MSFT as part of a bundle of other stocks, then expect a poor return.    

I love how your always being negative towards MS even with good news, yet your nowhere to be found when Sony ventures/financials are brought up.