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Rumour - Google Thinking of Buying Skype from eBay?
November 19th, 2007 by Head Robot
Jenima Kiss writes on the Guardian’s blog, pda:the digital content blog
It’s been a while since the last juicy web business rumour, so this will do nicely.
Currently in favour around London’s webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay.
This makes sense on a number of levels, particularly because it fits with Google’s ambitions for disrupting the mobile industry through its new open mobile phone development platform Android, and for eBay - which was recently forced to admit that it had paid too much for Skype.
Plus, Google bases all of its mobile projects in London, so this is the fitting place for such a rumour.
Place your bets.
Original post, Rumoursville: Google sniffing around Skype
Technorati Tags: Google, eBay, Skype, Business, Phone, VOIP, P2P
Wall Street Journal - Analyzing Google’s “Android”
November 13th, 2007 by Head RobotThe Wall Street Journal talks to Google’s Rich Miner:
If you can measure a new technology’s popularity by the number of companies trying to attach their names to it, then Google’s new Android mobile-phone platform is a big deal.
By the time I left the office yesterday, I’d heard from the developer of Android’s voice-command software, a company providing fonts for Android, a publicist for a competing Linux mobile software effort, yet another mobile-Linux software developer, a firm that sells cheap international cell-phone calling, the Public Knowledge think tank (which basically opined “Yay, Google!”) and CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade association (”If ever there was evidence that so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules were not needed, today’s news is it”).
This kind of breathless anticipation says something–and not just that a lot of people are unhappy with their cell phones. Google’s past successes have rightly led people to expect great things from the Mountain View, Calif., company, and now it has given itself one of the toughest tasks imaginable: reinventing the mobile phone with this new, open-source software.
To read the questions and answers, read the rest of Analyzing Google’s “Android” at The Wall Street Journal
Technorati Tags: Wall Street Journal, Google, Android, Mobile, Java, Cell, Phone