Techcrunch reports that Microsoft is continuing its acquisition spree for competitive productivity apps, scooping up calendar company Sunrise for something over $100 million. This follows the recent release of Outlook for iOS… Read more »
Microsoft has decided to make Office apps for iPhone, iPad, and — soon — Android freely downloadable, and will not require users to create a paid Office 365 account to do… Read more »
A few new indicators have popped up, showing that Google is going right after Microsoft’s jugular: enterprise email. The most clear cut indicator is new stats mined by Dan Frommer, showing… Read more »
Sprint(s s) and Google(s goog) already have a history of close cooperation on consumer apps — Sprint was the only major U.S. carrier to support Google Wallet — but now it… Read more »
For some time now, businesses have faced many challenges when it comes to the infrastructure needs of consumer-facing applications. But today there are metrics that can help them justify and benchmark… Read more »
Dropbox has lined up more than $500 million in debt financing, according to the Financial Times. Apparently, it is growing its own infrastructure, (now a hybrid of its own and Amazon’s),… Read more »
It’s been widely reported that Microsoft has twittered the impressive results of one week of Office for iPad, which has led to over 12 million downloads. The other shoe hasn’t dropped though:… Read more »
Satya Nadella’s San Francisco press conference yesterday was indeed the unveiling of Office for iPad, as predicted. This is actually three separate apps — Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for iPad –… Read more »
I wrote the other other day that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella seems to have turned the corner on a new price strategy for Windows and Office: he’s heading towards free (see Microsoft accepts… Read more »
A number of news items from last week that converge toward a major scene of contention for how works gets done in the near future: Editorially, the markdown coediting tool, has… Read more »