Microsoft has purchased Skype for an incredible 8.5 billion (thats around $36 Australian Dollars) in a deal most believe is to alleviate the threat from Google’s limited but excellent Google Voice software. The company was last purchased for 2.7 billion, so this is not a bad return on the investment, although Skype still continues to [...]
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Why I love Google Premium Apps
From the get go I should point out that these days I have a bias against Microsoft and the way it operates its business. In fact, I have a bias against any large business where you can spend years with as a ‘valued’ client but you just get treated like a number when it comes [...]
Constructing your perfect online real estate media platform
Stage Two – (for those who missed Stage One) . A common theme within the real estate industry is when an agent speaks with a vendor who just completed a new home where they always say “we would do many things different with our next home” – the same too applies with agent websites. Agents [...]
Australian Real Estate SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Part 1
Search engines are the key to generating significant traffic on the internet. It can certainly be supplemented and enhanced by social networking like Facebook, Blogs and the Twitter but search engines are King. In other places around the world a number of search engines are very popular but in Australia, there is only one serious [...]
Dumb and Dumber Real Estate Awards 2008
Well what a year it has been, with just about every major company in the real estate and classifieds market vying for entry into this years awards. So how do you make our dumb and dumber awards? Well quite simply, you make a schoolboy mistake, try to cover something up or worse still knowingly do [...]
Greg Ellis announced as new CEO for REA
The Chairman of the REA Group, Richard Freudenstein, today announced the appointment of Greg Ellis as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Ellis is currently Marketing Director Asia Online Services for Microsoft. He will take on the new role on Monday, 8 September.
Microsoft in bid to buy Yahoo
Microsoft got out the the moneybox this week with a bold AUD 50 billion bid for advertising giant Yahoo. What this means for the Australian market is anyone’s guess but as Wired Magazines report “Do Two Losers Make a Winner?” is probably bang on in relation to search and advertising. Yahoo are aligned with Channel [...]
Dumb and Dumber Awards 2007
Every year since 2004 I have been adding my own dumb and dumber awards. Usually is it a hard slog getting so many out the door, but why was 2007 different? Anyway sit back and have a giggle at some of the dumbest moments in real estate and technology for 2007. PBL & MICROSOFT 1. [...]
Microsoft enters Real Estate Market
Microsoft has bought itself into a stake of PBL’s new property portal MyHome which is due for release next year. Microsoft joins L.J. Hooker, Century 21, Elders and Raine & Horne as shareholders along with the major shareholder PBL. Here is a link to the article This is interesting on two fronts for me, on [...]
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