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| Google Spent Almost $2 Billion On 79 Acquisitions In 2011 Posted: 29 Jan 2012 12:42 PM PST
Many of the companies on its list you've probably never heard of, though some firms such as Clever Sense, Kantango, and Apture were promising startups. Google will be no doubt be stepping up its acquisition pace in 2012 as it looks to expand its talent pool to help dominate the mobile space, and goes a long way towards their expanding headcount which grew 33 percent from 2010 to 2011. Google's army now stands at over 32,000 employees around the world. |
| Bill Gates Wrote Steve Jobs A Letter He Kept By His Death Bed Posted: 29 Jan 2012 12:03 PM PST
According to Gates Steve Jobs was one of the few people to understand his compulsions, and has started slowly opening up to the press in his defense over his description in the late Apple co-founder's biography. "Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors. The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve's very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well. It's quite an achievement, and we enjoyed each [other's work]." Gate's comments might sound a bit like a tribute, but reading between the lines you can also sense his confidence in the decisions he made which lead to Microsoft's dominance. "He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany." In Jobs's view, his rival was "unimaginative", "a bit narrow" and derivative. As he once told an interviewer, "He [Gates] would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram." |
Google's filed its 10-K with the SEC yesterday, and the numbers have revealed a staggering increase in the number of acquisitions the search giant made in 2011. Google closed the year by spending close to 
It's been awhile now since Bill Gates ruled the roast over at Microsoft, however his philanthropic work across the globe has more than made up for his absence. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has almost completely rid the world of polio, and malaria and aids can't be far behind at this rate. The founder of Microsoft has arguably made one of the most significant contributions to the world in the past hundred years, but even despite all his own personal accomplishments, he continues to reminisce over the death of S| You are subscribed to email updates from Maximum PC - All Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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