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Microsoft vs. Google: Tech Giants’ Turf War Heats Up

April 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Google and Microsoft have their fingers in so many pies that one could use a Venn diagram to chart the multiple ways the rivals compete for consumers’ eyeballs and companies’ dollars. Fortunately, that’s what research analysts do for us. Gartner analysts Tom Austin and David Mitchell Smith held a Webcast March 31 to discuss the evolving battle between Google and Microsoft, examining their strengths, weaknesses and threats to their businesses. While Microsoft Bing is targeting Google’s search engine market share, Google Apps is looking to poach from the massive installed base of more than 500 million Microsoft Office users. In this slide show, eWEEK provides an overview of the battleground.
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Google TV Treads Familiar Web TV Turf with Open Platform

March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Google TV could be an exciting new search and video service or it could be just another Web TV experience with a tepid reception, joining Microsoft and Apple in a market yearning for more consumers. Gartner analyst Van Baker isn’t impressed, having watched many products and services geared to blend TV and Web fail. Perhaps Google TV will be an Android platform that lets users easily jump back and forth between watching their favorite television shows and accessing their favorite Web applications.
– Google TV, an effort to bring Internet search and other Web applications to
consumers’ televisions, could be an exciting new entrant into the field of Web
TV platforms.
Or it could be just another Web TV experience with a tepid reception,
joining Microsoft and Apple in a market yearning for more…

10 Ways Google Can Defend Its Android Turf Against Apple iPhone

March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: As the rhetoric battle between Google and Apple heats up, the search giant is showing that it will fight to defend its Android mobile OS from any legal or marketing attacks from Apple. We take a look at 10 ways Google can defend its Android turf and take on Apple in the mobile market.
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battle between Apple and Google continues to heat up. Recently, Tim
Bray, a prominent former Sun Microsystems software developer, recently
joined Google’s Android mobile OS team. The new hire wasted no time publicly
criticizing Apples stance in the mobile world. Bray said he plans to use hi…

Boutique advisers step on Singaporeâ€™s private bank turf

January 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Boutique and independent financial advisers are moving onto the turf of private banks in Asian wealth management centre Singapore, looking to poach emerging millionaire clients in the region.

As major players such as Citigroup (C.N) and UBS AG (UBSN.VX) focus their wealth management arms on the ultra rich, the most profitable segment, after a year of cutting resources due to the global financial crisis, the door has opened wider for boutiques.

Turf War Over Financial Oversight Plays Into Hands Of Lobbyists

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration scrambled on Friday to defend major elements of its plan to overhaul the nation’s financial regulatory system in the face of significant criticism from lawmakers, the financial services industry, and even…

Vance Bunker, Maine Lobsterman, Charged With Shooting Other Lobsterman In Fishing Turf War

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

MATINICUS, Maine — A lobsterman in Maine has been charged with shooting a fellow lobsterman in what police say was a fishing turf dispute.

Sixty-eight-year-old Vance Bunker was being held Tuesday on an elevated aggravated assault charge…