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Microsoft To Acquire Ciao For $486 Million

2008-08-29 14:45:11 by Charles Knight in Alt Search Engines
 
...Ciaos Web sites let users search for and buy a wide range of tech products while comparing prices from numerous online retailers. It operates sites in seven major European countries and languages. Ciao also recently launched Ciao.com, a beta site aimed at the U.S. market Ciao users can rate products, provide feedback and create lists of their...
 
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Microsoft Acquires Greenfield Online for $486 Million

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2008-08-29 13:00:17 by Stan Schroeder in Mashable!
...Ciao GmbH, a leading European shopping and price comparison site. Microsoft will purchase all outstanding shares of Greenfield Online for $17.50 per share, which means that the total value of the transaction is approx. 486 million dollars. As others have noticed , Greenfield already had a deal in place with media PE firm Quadrangle Group...
 
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Microsoft Buying Research/Shopping Engine Outfit Greenfield Online, Carving It Up (MSFT)

2008-08-29 07:30:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Ciao, a European comparison shopping engine. Redmond plans on immediately selling off the survey business to an unnamed buyer. From one of two releases Microsoft put out to explain the deal Ciao is a comprehensive source for intelligent shopping on the web, combining consumer reviews and ratings from a multimillion-user-strong online...
 
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Which Is Worth More? Product Search or Information Search.

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2008-08-30 03:44:31 by Steven Hodson in Mashable!
...Ciao!, the European shopping and price comparison site. The other parts of the company apparently already have buyers lined up for the rest of the Greenfield Online company On the surface this would seem to be a rather strange acquisition for Microsoft, with some suggesting that the purchase is just a way to increase its reach into the...
 
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10+ Sites for Product Reviews from Experts and Consumers

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2008-07-18 15:47:56 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
...Ciao Launches Lists Function: Whats On Your Top 10 Crowdstorm Still Kicking
 
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Creative Suite 4 - How to Find Out More

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2008-09-24 06:52:12 by Robert McDaniels in Adobe Blogs
I am almost as excited as Steve Martin's character in The Jerk , when he danced around gleefully screaming, "The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here!" For those of you who don't share my taste in fine cinema - this is exciting! There are way too many fun, new toys to cover in a single post, but rest assured the team will be...
 
Tags: creative suite, phone books, adobe tv, main product page, adobe, education page, fine cinema, steve martin, hours
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Yahoo: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

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2008-09-25 12:55:57 by Guest Author in Alt Search Engines
...Ciao.comtoo little too late. In short, it is what it is Third, I track 52 search vendors. I have a list of 300 or so companies competing in search and content processing. Know how many can compete with Google? Two. Why doesnt Yahoo buy one of these outfits? Why doesnt Microsoft? The answer is that neither company takes time from their busy...
 
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Microsoft Yahoo: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

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2008-09-25 12:55:57 by Guest Author in Alt Search Engines
...Ciao.comtoo little too late. In short, it is what it is Third, I track 52 search vendors. I have a list of 300 or so companies competing in search and content processing. Know how many can compete with Google? Two. Why doesnt Yahoo buy one of these outfits? Why doesnt Microsoft? The answer is that neither company takes time from their busy...
 
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Keeping third-party SWFfers happy

2008-10-21 15:56:36 by John Dowdell in Adobe Blogs
 
Flash Player 10 had to tighten some security policies, and most developers are already up on the news... guidance started in 2007, and DevNet and Labs updated their info with each release version, and staffers like Lee Brimelow have held extended conversations on the subject. People who create SWF seem to have already adapted to today's darker...
 
Tags: employ swf, swf, people, weeks ago ajaxian, programmatic file uploads, darker security environment, explicit user permission, non-developers, larger
 
 
 
 
 
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