11 July 2011

Facebook vs Google tech wars: Isn't this also a Microsoft vs Apple thing?

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/facebook-vs-google-tech-wars-isnt-this-also-a-microsoft-vs-apple-thing/articleshow/9165513.cms


When 750 million people across the world are allowed to make free video calls, it is "something awesome". Especially because these 750 million want to talk to each other — they are friends on Facebook. But when you compare it with a service that allows 10 simultaneous video calls for free, Facebook's big bang seems a desperate catch-up. What makes the blow worse is that they are playing catch-up with a service launched just three weeks ago – Google +.
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The new service has been in the works since Microsoft bought Skype in May. What is the connection? Remember in 2007, Microsoft picked up a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million. So now all Microsoft friends are Skype friends. And Microsoft gets another stab at trouncing Google, its current enemy No. 1.
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Facebook's latest service is also a challenge to Microsoft's long-time frenemy, Apple, which runs Face Time, the one-tap video calling app on iOS. Alongside, it helps Mark Zuckerberg notch a oneup on Apple's Ping. Sounds confusing? It is, and always has been in techdom.
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New friends and enemies are made at every innovation and companies buddy up and file lawsuits against each other simultaneously. Here's a lowdown on the current relationship status of the tech giants. Facebook would have said: It's complicated.

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