Google, the king of search, is often touted as Microsoft’s most potent challenger. Fueled by its meteoric rise through a competitive search market and shrouded in secrecy, Google is surrounded by a cloud of confusion. It has rolled out a series of products that compete with Microsoft’s dominant businesses, including GMail (competes with Hotmail and [...]
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The Battle Road Tech Index™ gained less than one percent for the week ended June 26, 2009, closing at 1307. For the week, 13 of the 25 Index components were in negative territory. Year-to-date, the index is up 30.7 percent, having started at a value of 1000. The following companies were notable movers for the [...] Google Faces Off Against Amazon We, along with most investors, have become accustomed to thinking of Google as the leader in online search and advertising, and Amazon.com as the king of ecommerce. We were therefore surprised to see competition between the two heating up in the arena of digital books. As is by now well [...] |
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