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Yahoo’s not the only target of Microsoft’s cash-pile. The company we all love to hate has allegedly put up $500 million to acquire Sidekick-maker Danger. Gigaom’s “fairly solid sources” are pegging Microsoft’s most recent purchase at a hefty half-billion greenbacks.
Why so much? Well, it would seem that Microsoft wants to leverage their services, like Microsoft Live Search, Mail, and Messenger, in the Danger platform. The idea being that a Microsoft-backed Danger OS could be just the thing to compete against the oncoming Android flood.
Now, Microsoft’s official stance on the acquisition is that they want to gather as much expertise as they can. But, if they want to truly compete in the same space as Android, they may just use this Danger acquisition to bring a new wave of Microsoft/Danger handsets.
[Via: GigaOm]
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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
