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- 1,200 Marketers Can’t Be Wrong: The Future Is in Consumer Behavior
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The ability of new media to monitor what consumers are doing — like keeping track of which Web sites they visit — is fueling the interest in behavioral targeting. Several speakers also described how they were using traditional media to more precisely aim advertising at consumers based on behavior, through steps like tailored television commercials.
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- Microsoft overhauls Zune
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  "It's a great player -- for 2006," said Matt Rosoff, analyst at research firm Directions on Microsoft. He said the improvements put the company "where they probably should have been last year, when they launched."
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- Microsoft in talks about Facebook investment
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  Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook about buying a minority stake in the fast-growing online social network that could value the company at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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- Microsoft to set time limit for storing data on Web searches
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  Microsoft is announcing changes to its privacy policy Monday that set a time limit on how long the company will retain data about customer queries through its search engine. The policy, seen as an attempt to distinguish itself from Google, also allows people to opt out of targeted ads by third-party advertisers using Microsoft's Windows Live service.
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- Microsoft's annual revenues are up 15 percent
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Meanwhile, Microsoft's quarterly results revealed deeper losses in its Internet-related initiatives. That part of the company continues to hire employees and build data centers to compete with Google and Yahoo. But Microsoft posted a 33 percent increase in online advertising sales, a rare sign of progress in that competition.
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- Xbox issues to cost Microsoft $1 billion-plus
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  Microsoft Corp. on Thursday extended the warranty on its Xbox 360 to three years after too many of the video game consoles have succumbed to “general hardware failure.”
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- Nike will aid overseas workers - OregonLive.com
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  You know labor conditions in overseas factories are bad when a Fortune 500 company decides it needs to help workers learn how to form a union. Does this action by Nike mean that Starbucks and Microsoft might let its American workers unionize?
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Jeff comments on:
Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid

This Yahoo bid was stupid from the beginning. Microsoft was going to spend all its cash to chase Google in the advertising business? Huh? Ballmer clearly backed down when he didn’t want to ante up. I suspect the Microsoft board had second thoughts as well.

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7:14 pm 5/03/08
Jeff comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

You are misunderstanding – this is about Washington B & O taxes on corporations, not income taxes.

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9:31 pm 4/02/08
aknight comments on:
Blodget: MicroHoo ‘is gonna be a disaster’

At best a year to get the deal closed, two for integration. Multiple groups on each side working on similar projects… Sounds like a great idea and a nightmare to integrate.

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6:30 pm 2/14/08
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High-tech giants seeking massive tax break

Check out my rebuttal to Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft’s Tax Avoidance here.

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11:06 am 2/12/08
edseccocpa comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

Your concern that Microsoft is avoiding paying income taxes to the State of Washington is based on the erroneous belief that there is an income tax in Washington. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

I really don’t know what you’re belly aching about.

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9:53 am 2/04/08
Jwgardner comments on:
Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism

I honestly never would have predicted such thinking from BG several years ago.

What I want to see now is the staunch capitalist’s response to such thinking. Maybe the Economist will have something (dismissive and venomous, as usual) to say about it…

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11:56 am 1/24/08
Shemuses comments on:
Xbox issues to cost Microsoft $1 billion-plus

first

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