Top 10 List: Why Microsoft and Yahoo Couldn't Marry

From：http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/top_10_list_why_microsoft_and_yahoo_couldnt_marry.html

The Microsoft-Yahoo rocky relationship started Friday with rumors of a merger and ended with word there would be no union. Why couldn't the companies pair up? We propose some reasons.
10. On Monday, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's incoming chief software architect, declared that AJAX was dead. Long live Silverlight.
9. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is a foreign car kind of guy, while Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is strictly Detroit.
8. Steve Case, architect of the AOL Time Warner merger, made repeated "Boo Hoo!" crank calls to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates...

What Google Needs

From：http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/what-google-needs.html

Google has some insanely useful applications, the top of their field in many cases — and by mastering these tools, you can become a productivity ninja. But these apps — Gmail, Gcal, Google Reader, Google Docs, et al — they aren’t perfect.
Don’t get me wrong — I love these apps. They are awesome, and I couldn’t bring myself to use anything else. But although they’ve come out with some minor upgrades recently, Google has been a little slow in upgrading their great apps with much-needed features. Perhaps they just need a little nudge.
Well here it is. Google, here are just a few of the features you need to add, pronto...

How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle)

From: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/30/moes-googlebuy_1.html

May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it's safe to say that betrothal is on the minds of many a young company these days. They're complex emotions, to be sure, but they find their truest expression in a question that flits across the mind of many a traveler on Route 101 or, if articulated, is done so only in whispers: "How do we get bought by Google?" ...