Microsoft recognized. I used to be trying to buy Facebook.

Fritz Lanman executive strategic acquisitions of companies and Microsoft, the stage work Le Web in France and the interview that Microsoft "had tried to" buy Facebook.
The proposed acquisition was first mentioned in writing The Facebook Effect that Microsoft offers 15 billion. But end up buying shares worth 240 million dollars in Facebook instead.
Fritz Lanman also said that the first few months Facebook has the corporate culture is similar to Microsoft in the future more and Facebook would have been as high as the company, Microsoft is likely
Source - Blognone, TechCrunch.

Salesforce.com Acquires Heroku.

Salesforce.com. Announced its acquisition Heroku (pronounced "Sigh - O - Cool"), which provides for cloud applications written in Ruby.
Heroku said currently serving PASS (platform as a service) to more than 100,000 applications.
The latter Salesforce.com. 're Selling a concept "Cloud 2", which focuses on social network and collaboration services more samples were Chatter Cloud 2, which is a program developed by the internal communications. Salesforce.com itself (read more about Cloud 2 from the Bangkok Post).
But Salesforce.com. Infrastructure services to other software developers and web applications with new versions. Many popular makes Heroku Ruby is an important tool for developing software on the Cloud 2 and what is not surprising. Heroku buy Salesforce.com team, lose it. Now, Cloud 2 is the primary language of Java and Ruby.
The acquisition is valued at 212 million dollars.

 

Source : Blognone, TechCrunch

Google acquired online video, synthetic speech

Although the purchase Groupon failed, but today Google announced the acquisition of two companies at once
Company Name Widevine first online video distribution service to other large companies. This company has the technology DRM (see illustration), and to improve the video to fit mobile terminals. Google promises that will take care of existing customers. (And new customers) of Widevine well, but said that Widevine's technology will be used to

 

 Phonetic Arts two companies made the synthetic speech (speech synthesis), this company in the UK. And speech synthesis technology, realistic. Google has not said they would bring this technology to do what. But these days that Google is starting to sound out a lot of products. Particular order analysis - Real Voice.

Source. : blognone