by Ian Rosenwach
7.29.2009
The Yahoo-Microsoft deal is finally sealed. The first part that jumped out at me is the 10 year agreement. 10 years is a LIFETIME in search. The market is going to change, and this partnership does not guarantee a long-term, formidable Google competitor. If Yahoo and MSFT don’t enhance their core product to improve the […]
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by Ian Rosenwach
7.28.2009
Yesterday IBM acuired SPSS for $1.2 billion. SPSS is in the business of analyzing large amount of data and building models that look at the data in ways useful to a business. IBM is smart to start providing tools and services to power the web-based world. Software like SPSS will become more valuable as we […]
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