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	<title>Face IT - IESE Technology Blog &#187; Gabriel Giordano</title>
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		<title>Regulatory obstacles for the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the excitement and press releases about the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, the serious market analysis is now beginning. US regulators have decided to scrutinize the deal, to understand if the reduction of the number of major search providers, from three to two, will hurt competition in the search market.
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		<title>Finally, Microsoft + Yahoo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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After months and months of merger and acquisition talks with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo has finally reached a deal to merge their search and search advertising functions with someone &#8211; Microsoft! The deal will last 10 years, and &#8220;Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google AdSense in the Mobile World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile applications have been receiving increasing business interest recently, as their functionality and capabilities have quickly increased. The early platform leader in mobile applications has been Apple. This is partially due to the fact that they were the first mover and created the first highly usable online application store. The success of this store became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfram Alpha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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Right before Microsoft&#8217;s Bing was announced, another new search-related website was getting the spotlight, WolframAlpha.com. Wolfram Alpha was created by Stephen Wolfram, who is also the creator of the highly respected
research focused application, Mathematica.
While this new website has received quite a bit of attention recently, many people still seem to be somewhat confused about how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Opportunities in the &#8220;Virtual&#8221; World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 10:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, stories about virtual world systems such as Second Life were abundant. However, recently, not much has been said about these systems. New user growth has slowed, and the number of regular users (around a half a million) of the largest system, Second Life, has turned out to be only a fraction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIO Concerns &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economic turmoil that businesses will face in the coming year, technology managers will face a new level of difficulty that should seem especially tough after several recent positive periods regarding business technology. Many technology analysts are now releasing reports that summarize CIO concerns for the difficult times ahead.
Most analyst seem to agree with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Lies in New Interview Settings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main concerns for many people in tough economic times is the job search process.&#0160; Researchers have found that a poor economy can have a significant psychological effect on individuals looking for jobs. Individuals affected by downsizing will likely have low confidence and self-esteem and will think that it is necessary to appear
super-qualified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on cloud computing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of posts ago, I talked about Microsoft&#8217;s potential move into cloud computing. However, since that time, Microsoft formally announced their development of a cloud-based system and cloud computing has been getting even more media attention. This post is a follow-up to the previous post, and it is meant to be a quick guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Virtual&#8221; Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has traditionally been a company that sells packaged software for personal computers. However, as several companies have recently created online environments for running applications, Microsoft has quickly changed their strategy to compete with this new model (which is now often called &#8220;cloud computing&#8221;). As described in MIT&#8217;s Technology Review, &#8220;a computing cloud is made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP-EDS Merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Giordano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge story in the IT world this week was the announcement of the acquisition of Electronic Data Systems by Hewlett-Packard. Information Week reported that the deal is the largest in the outsourcing sector&#8217;s history, and that it is the second largest ever in the IT industry overall (It&#8217;s second only to HP&#8217;s $19 billion [...]]]></description>
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