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Yeah, this is just another instance of Microsoft jumping on the bandwagon after everybody else did.

Microsoft’s Office suite is the undisputed ruler of desktop software, but with Google moving in on Web-based office applications, Microsoft was sure to follow. Microsoft may offer basic versions of its word processing and spreadsheet software which will be supported by advertising.

Microsoft is pondering making its Works software available online, but is also careful not to cannibalize its sales of Office as it is one of the software giant’s leading sources of revenue. Microsoft may opt to offer its online software with a subscription-based model. 

Eh, I don’t like Facebook but it’s interesting that Yahoo supposedly likes them so much.

Yahoo apparently is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire social network directory Facebook. According to the newspaper, Facebook had similar talks about a possible sale of the company to Microsoft and Viacom. The volume of the acquisition is unclear, but could reach up to $1 billion, the WSJ wrote. 

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Sprint announced its fourth-generation wireless system today. The so-called WiMAX technology won’t see commercial availability until early 2008, but this is a first step in the direction of what Sprint (along with a number of partners and competitors) hopes will become a paradigm of Internet everywhere. 

Why bother yourself with annoying content when all you really care about is the ads?

Google Inc., the search engine company, said yesterday that it would disclose to advertisers the number of clicks on ads that it deems are invalid in a bid to assuage concerns over “click fraud.”

A Google business product manager, Shuman Ghosemajumder, said advertisers could now see how many clicks on ads are excluded from their bills.