Internet economics and business models for the future

Techdirt
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071121/083858.shtml
and J. Lanier
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/opinion/20lanier.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
 from New York Times talk about internet strategy and how to create revenue in the web.
There is a trade off between generating revenues with free content and ads  on the one side, and on the other side micropayment which are on the radar since years but are still not established.
In my opinion micropayments are not [...]

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After some research… at wikipedia is a full list of all Google aquisitions

short overview: http://www.paydayloanaffiliate.com/blog/GooglesAcquisitionReportCard.aspx 
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
for the reference click on the wikipedia article
List of Google acquisitions
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This is a listing of Google’s corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.

Acquisition Date
Company/Product
Business Area
Value (USD)
References

2001

September 20, 2001
Deja’s Usenet archive
Google Groups.
undisclosed
[1]

September 20, 2001
Outride, Inc.
Spin-off from Xerox PARC.
undisclosed
[2]

2003

February, 2003
Pyra Labs
Blogger.
undisclosed
[3]

April, 2003
Neotonic Software
CRM technology.
undisclosed
[4]

April, [...]

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Innovation from Acquisitions? Google and Microsoft – an Overview

To answer the question if Google is more innovative  than Microsoft you should  include their acquisititions argumentation…
Also you should consider Google also bought Youtube, partners with MySpace and in future their own VC company Sequoia definitly will incubate more innovative companies ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/ )
For example IPTV Joost you could include in Youtube to get Google on also TV. But there are [...]

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ZDnet als talks about Enterprise 2.0 due to the Boston conference

Below the text are a lot of interesting links on Enterprise 2.0 from Zdnet.
Also SAP is mentioned as one of the key players in this area 
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5440
June 20th, 2007
The state of Enterprise 2.0

InfoWorld and Baseline have overviews of announcements made at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. It’s no longer just the upstarts [...]

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Google Gears Offline Web Applications are out now!

Adding the keystone to their future web strategy!
It is offline and open source and a major step to the final product (this is beta, like all Web 2.0stuff) 
 check it out at: http://gears.google.com/
..as a lot top blogs posted today.
from: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/gears-puts-google-in-the-drivers-seat/2007/05/31/1180205350391.html
Gears puts Google in the driver’s seat
The Google Gears plugin download page.

Hutcheon
May 31, 2007 – 9:00AM
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Zdnet comment on Google CEO Schmidt and his strategy

from: http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/wp-trackback.php?p=1419
I think the advertising strategy is not really a competitive field for SAP but nevertheless the revenue they create with this is very impressive…and primarily what they do with it afterwards…
  
  
May 24th, 2007
Why Google CEO is ‘harmless’
Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 10:29 amCategories:

While the world expresses “shock and awe” over Google CEO [...]

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Full WSJ article from last week on SAP and Globalization found here!

http://www.nice-ventures.com/blog/archives/668-SAP-challenges-The-difference-between-German-good-and-American-excellent.html

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Ways to monetize Youtube from Scobeleizer

from: Google to Yahoo and Microsoft: the $1.65 billion was worth it
Ahh, now you all understand what I meant when I said YouTube is a moat, not a revenue generator. By putting YouTube results into Google’s main engine Google ensures it will have better searches than Yahoo and Microsoft (who were, truth be told, getting damn [...]

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