Acquisitions

If I were one of the most powerful and the richest people in the world, I would probably want to be even bigger, wealthier and stronger. Such a desire has always been and always will be dangerous. There is no surprise that every time someone comes with these intentions, the rest of the world want to stop him. Google, as one of the most spreading companies in the world, is giving people the shivers. Picture of everything possessed by Google creates an idea that we are living in a Google world. And this kind of picture is not very pleasant. That is the reason, why the group of online travel firms urged the US authorities to block Google from purchasing flight information comp! any ITA Software. In their opinion, Goggle will get too much control over the lucrative sector. As ITA Software powers most of travel agencies’ rivals in travel search, there is a threat that Google could manipulate and dominate the online air travel marketplace. The coalition of travel sites and technology companies said: “The end result could be higher travel prices, fewer travel choices for consumers and businesses, and less innovation in online travel search.” But what if the reverse would be true? ITA Software which specializes in organizing airline data, including flight times, availability and prices will simply help Google to provide better results for its users, said Andrew Silverman, a Google senior product manager. As he added: “ITA Software and Google are not competitors so there will not be less choice for consumers.”

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Keby som bola jedným z najvplyvnejších a najbohatších ľudí na svete, určite by som sa s týmto statusom neuspokojila. Chcela by som byť ešte vplyvnejšia, ešte bohatšia, ešte väčšia. Takáto túžba však vždy bola a vždy aj bude veľmi nebezpečná. Niet sa preto čomu čudovať, že ak sa podobné tendencie objavia u niektorého z vyspelých „primátov“, zvyšok komunity začne proti tomu revoltovať. Google, ako jedna z najrýchlejšie sa rozrastajúcich korporácií na sv! ete, naháňa ľuďom strach. Predstava, že všetko patrí jednej spoločnosti – konkrétne spoločnosti Google, vedie postupne k presvedčeniu, že žijeme v Google svete. A takýto obraz (nech už je akokoľvek reálny) nie je práve najmilší. Aj to je dôvodom, prečo skupina internetových cestovných spoločností nalieha na americkú vládu, aby zablokovala spoločnosť Google a jej snahu o odkúpenie leteckej informačnej spoločnosti ITA Software. Podľa nich totiž získa Google príliš veľkú kontrolu nad týmto lukratívnym sektorom. Nakoľko spoločnosť ITA Software spolupracuje s konkurentmi cestovného vyhľadávania mnohých cestovných agentúr, existuje obava, že by spoločnosť Google mohla manipulovať s týmto trhom. Pod&! #318;a koalície cestovných online predajcov a techno! logick&# 253;ch spoločností by „konečným výsledkom mohli byť vyššie ceny, menej možností pre zákazníkov a celkovo menej inovácie v online vyhľadávaní cestovných spojov.“ No čo ak by bol opak pravdou? ITA Software, ktorá sa špecializuje na organizovanie leteckých dát, vrátane času odletov, dostupnosti a cenám jednotlivých letov bude podľa slov vedúceho produkčného manažéra spoločnosti Google, Andrewa Silvermana, jednoducho pomáhať spoločnosti poskytovať svojim používateľom ešte lepšie služby a informácie. Ako dodal: „ITA Software a Google nie sú konkurenti, takže nehrozí žiadne zníženie informovanosti a znevýhodňovanie zákazníkov.“

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As if Microsoft hasn’t been big enough. This public multinational corporation, that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services, mostly related to computing, wants to be even stronger. That is the reason why it made another acquisition. As it announced on Wednesday, it bought AVIcode, a Maryland-based company that monitors the performance of online applications and services, is operating since 1998, AVIcode, leading provider of application monitoring solutions, with its award-winning technology and innovative products was designed to protect software investments by simplifying maintenance and troubleshooting. Microsoft said this! Baltimore-based and a privately held company will become wholly-owned subsidiary. Brad Anderson, Microsoft corporate vice president wrote in his blog post, that AVIcode technology will help to provide understanding of an application’s performance and quality and its software has already been integrated into such Microsoft services such as Xbox Live. But what would it mean for Microsoft’s customers? According to Anderson, this acquisition will provide higher quality of services. It will provide “access to a new set of capabilities to help you keep those business-critical datacenter applications and services up and running.” he said. By the words of Mike Curreri, AVIcode chief executive, both firms “share common vision about the evolution of application performance management and monitoring.” As he added with modesty: “With AVIcode technology, thousands of users worldwide have dramatically reduced the time required to diagnose and r! esolve application problems.” If you were interested in ! financia l terms of this transaction, I will have to disappoint you, they were not disclosed!

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Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delive! ring infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.