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[Elias]

será que a MSFT anda a cuscar as chamadas do Skype?

It's Terrifying and Sickening that Microsoft Can Now Listen In on All My Skype Calls
7/22/2012 @ 2:10PM |5,706 views

There was a wildly terrifying story published late Friday on Slate that didn’t get much attention because of the time of the week it was released.

In it, the author – Ryan Gallagher – lays out how Microsoft (MSFT) seems to have made some subtle and (to most) imperceptible changes to the popular Skype calling service that allows it to eavesdrop on all of your calls going forward.

Shocked? I certainly was.

One of the reasons that Skype has grown so swiftly in the last 5 years was the belief by many users that the founders from Luxembourg had taken steps to make the service one of the most locked-down and encrypted services available to communicate with.

But in May 2011, Microsoft announced that it was spending $8.5 billion to buy Skype and that it would form a new division within the software giant. From the start, observers wondered how Microsoft could justify paying so much for a service that most of its users pay nothing for but which still lets them talk for free to other Skype users. Microsoft countered by saying that Skype was the world leaders in voice-over-IP communications and it wanted to own that brand and was sure that it could be sold alongside other popular Microsoft enterprise-focused software and services.

(Given that Microsoft just wrote down its last blockbuster multi-billion dollar acquisition by $6.2 billion after paying $6.3 billion for aQuantive in 2007, it’s hard not to be suspicious that they haven’t made the same mistake with Skype. But, we’ll see….)

As Gallagher points out, “in June [2011], Microsoft was granted a patent for ‘legal intercept’ technology designed to be used with VOIP services like Skype to ‘silently copy communication transmitted via the communication session.’”

Gallagher tried several times last week to confirm that Microsoft had changed Skype’s policies and technologies to allow for accessing all communications. He got no response, which strongly suggests that they are able to do this.

Why is this so significant?

- Most Skype users are still under the legacy impression that Skype communications are private — more private than even their regular old phone conversations.

- If this has changed since the Microsoft acquisition, it hasn’t been overtly communicated to users. It’s unclear why, but presumably Microsoft worries that Skype’s meteoric growth would be stunted if more people knew about this privacy adjustment made behind their backs.

- Since the Microsoft purchase, it has been heavily promoted to Facebook (FB) users as an additional communications tool within the Facebook platform. Yet, new sign-ups to the Skype service are also likely not aware of the capability

It’s not bad enough the big web companies are trying to track every keystroke we make, website we visit, and image we hover over — with Facebook and any other cookie maker leader the charge. They also want to nefariously go around Apple‘s (AAPL) stated privacy policies and track our geographic location — thanks Google (GOOG). Now, they want to track our every utterance and text message via Skype.

I don’t know if it’s going to be Apple or some other smaller company trying to knock Skype off its leadership perch in VOIP calling, but it seems to me that there is a huge opportunity for big and small Web/mobile companies to champion true user privacy. I’m willing to bet that a huge proportion of users would opt for it if truly given the choice in a clear and open manner, instead of having the choice hidden from their view.

This latest back-door changing of the rules by Microsoft is truly terrifying – and sickening.

[Long AAPL]

[atomez]

Isto (resultado negativo no trimestre) pode atirar com a cotação por aí abaixo...

Microsoft absorbs $6.2 billion charge to account for flopped aQuantive acquisition

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is absorbing a $6.2 billion charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history turned out to be a dud.

The non-cash charge announced Monday could saddle Microsoft Corp. with a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in June. Analysts polled by FactSet had predicted Microsoft would earn about $5.3 billion for the period.

Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is scheduled to release its latest quarterly results on July 19.

The world’s largest software maker blamed the setback on the disappointing performance of aQuantive. That’s an online advertising service that Microsoft bought for $6.3 billion in 2007 to mount a more serious challenge to one of its biggest rivals, Internet search leader Google Inc.

The aQuantive deal ranked as the most expensive deal in Microsoft’s history until it was eclipsed last year by the company’s $8.5 billion purchase of Internet video chat service Skype.

Investors can only hope Skype works out better than aQuantive.

Microsoft’s $6.2 billion charge represents a sobering acknowledgement that aQuantive didn’t bring in as much online advertising revenue as envisioned, forcing management to write off most of the purchase price.

To add to Microsoft’s mortification, Google has been milking the acquisition of an aQuantive rival to widen its lead in the steadily growing online ad market. Google bought DoubleClick for $3.2 billion about eight months after Microsoft took control of aQuantive,

Since then, Google’s annual profit and advertising sales have more than doubled. Last year, Google earned $9.7 billion and collected $36.5 billion in ad revenue.

Microsoft’s online division has sustained losses totaling of nearly $9 billion since the company bought aQuantive. The online division generated $2.5 billion in revenue during Microsoft’s fiscal 2011, just $54 million more than in fiscal 2007.

Although the online division has been faring slightly better in the past year, “the company’s expectations for future growth and profitability are lower than previous estimates,” Microsoft said in a Monday statement.

Bing, a search engine that Microsoft unveiled four years ago, has been getting more usage, but most of its gains have come at the expense of a business partner, Yahoo Inc. Microsoft’s search technology has been powering searches on Yahoo’s website for nearly two years, but that alliance has barely dented Google’s market share.

BGP Financial Partners analyst Colin Gillis doesn’t expect the hefty charge to dampen investors’ enthusiasm as the anticipation builds for the upcoming release of Microsoft’s latest version of the Windows operating system that remains the company’s biggest moneymaker. The revisions in Windows 8, expected to hit the market this fall, are being counted on to help revive personal computer sales and establish Microsoft as a major player in the tablet computer market.

“AQuantive didn’t work out, but everyone already pretty much knew that,” Gillis said. “Now, they are just mopping up.”

Microsoft shares shed 13 cents to $30.43 in Monday’s extended trading. At that level, Microsoft’s stock price has still posted a 17 percent gain so far this year.

[nuuuuno]

LOOOOOOOOOOOL
coitado...

[Quico]

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[BearManBull]

Toda a gente usa capa para o iPad parece-me bem ter uma capa que tem a dupla funcionalidade de ser teclado.

Vide video a capa/teclado funciona por imans!

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O design é meio a dar para os anos 90 o meu ZéPad é bem mais bonito e custou-me 100 euros (já com android 4 e 32GB)...

A favor USB e micro hdmi (que o zepad tb tem ) e até 128gb. Vamos ver o preço se passar os 600€ cheira-me a fiasco (e vai daí que talvez não o pessoal gosta mesmo é de coisas caras).

Bonito era ter total integração com os PC de secretária mas isso serão detalhes do win8 que á partida deve trazer.


Edit para colocar outro video:

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Traz 2 tipos de teclados um sense e outro type.

[atomez]

É um notebook? É um tablet?

Não, é o Microsoft Surface.

[BearManBull]

MSFT pode entrar em Bull? A última vez foi o bull de médio prazo com o Win7

Neste moemento não tem posição definida está lateralizada desde 2000 (12 anos ) e está a chegar a um ponto interessante cruzamento de LTA com suporte/resistência de longo prazo. Terá de reagir positivamente ás quedas recentes.

[Elias]

MSFT a bombar 5% está em máximos de 2 anos (e a poucos cêntimos de fazer máximos de 4 anos).

[Elias]

MSFT perto do seu máximo de 52 semanas.

[Elias]

JANUARY 19, 2012, 4:07 PM ET
Microsoft Rising: FYQ2 Rev in Line, EPS Beats By a Penny


Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue in line with expectations and profit a penny ahead of consensus.

Revenue in the three months ending in December rose to $20.9 billion, yielding EPS of 77 cents.

Analysts had been modeling $20.92 billion in revenue and EPS of 76 cents.

Shares of Microsoft are up 48 cents, or 1.5%, at $28.55 in late trading.

[Elias]

MSFT apresenta resultados hoje após o fecho do mercado.

EPS esperado: $0,76

[Elias]

Que raciocínio mais falacioso!

Eheheh, e ainda dizemos nós dos nossos jornalistas. Isto é porque é a Fortune. Lá como cá...

Olha que não, olha que não...

É que o artigo da Fortune faz referência ao rebentar da bolha tecnológica e explica que a queda se deu nessa altura. O jornalista do DD digital é que resolveu omitir essa parte.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/08/ ... es_fortune

Ah pois é

[Automech]

Que raciocínio mais falacioso!

Eheheh, e ainda dizemos nós dos nossos jornalistas. Isto é porque é a Fortune. Lá como cá...

[Elias]

A revista diz que em 1999, melhor ano da Microsoft, as suas acções chegaram a valer quase 60 dólares. Quando Ballmer assumiu como presidente executivo, em 2000, as acções começaram a cair, enquanto Gates desligava-se pouco a pouco da empresa. Hoje, as acções valem, em média, 25 dólares.

Que raciocínio mais falacioso!

O ano 2000 foi o rebentamento da bolha das tecnológicas, quase todas as acções "tech" vieram por aí abaixo.

Não estou a dizer nem sequer a sugerir que o Ballmer é o maior, mas parece-me intelectualmente desonesto atribuir a queda de 2000 à mudança de gestão, obliterando o facto de todo o sector ter vindo por aí abaixo - a menos que o autor da notícia acredite que o sector inteiro caiu por causa da entrada do Ballmer, mas não me parece que seja isso que ele pensa

[Automech]

Pode ser que esta menina saia do range onde anda há quase dois anos.

Bill Gates pode regressar à Microsoft, segundo Fortune
domingo, 11 de Dezembro de 2011 | 15:36

Bill Gates tem se dedicado totalmente à filantropia, especialmente nos seus trabalhos na Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, mas pode estar, silenciosamente, a preparar o seu regresso à companhia que fundou e dirigiu durante anos.


Um artigo da Fortune surgiu esta semana admitindo a possibilidade. A publicação ouviu de um importante executivo que Gates considera a hipótese de voltar à Microsoft.


O rumor sugere que a retomada do comando por Gates poderia tirar a empresa do «abismo» financeiro que enfrenta ao longo da gestão de Steve Ballmer. A revista diz que em 1999, melhor ano da Microsoft, as suas acções chegaram a valer quase 60 dólares. Quando Ballmer assumiu como presidente executivo, em 2000, as acções começaram a cair, enquanto Gates desligava-se pouco a pouco da empresa. Hoje, as acções valem, em média, 25 dólares.

O regresso de Bill Gates ao cargo poderia alavancar esses valores. Jarrad Harford, professor de Finanças na Foster School of Business da Universidade de Washington, explica que qualquer mudança de CEO tende a melhorar o preço das acções. Isso porque os investidores antecipam o valor da empresa sob a nova gestão mesmo antes de o executivo assumir o novo posto.

«Há muita frustração com Steve Ballmer entre os investidores», acrescenta o analista Ed Maguire da CLSA Asia- Pacific Markets. «Alguma é merecida, outra pode não ser. Mas existe certamente uma percepção de que Ballmer é responsável pelo baixo desempenho das acções.» http://dinheirodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp ... ews=172037

[Elias]

Microsoft profit rises 30% in fourth quarter

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. MSFT +1.99% said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose to $5.87 billion, or 69 cents a share, from $4.52 billion, or 51 cents a share in the same period last year. The Redmond, Wash.-based software firm said revenue for the period ended June 30 rose 8% to $17.4 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected Microsoft to report earnings of 59 cents a share, and $17.2 billion in revenue for the quarter.

[Elias]

Microsoft vai concluir compra da Skype
segunda-feira, 20 de Junho de 2011 | 15:17

A Microsoft recebeu sinal verde das agências reguladoras para completar a aquisição da empresa de comunicação via Internet Skype.
No parecer, a Comissão Federal de Comércio dos Estados Unidos (FTC, na sigla em inglês) concedeu ao acordo a condição de «early termination» (finalização antecipada, em tradução livre).

Em Maio, a Microsoft anunciou ter concordado em pagar 8,5 mil milhões de dólares pela empresa. Assim que a fusão estiver completa, a Microsoft deverá fazer com que o Skype possa ser utilizado em produtos como o Xbox e o Kinect e também no sistema operacional móvel Windows Phone. Os utilizadores do Skype também deverão ser conectados a serviços e produtos da Microsoft, como Lync, Outlook e Xbox Live.

A Microsoft afirmou que vai continuar a investir nos clientes Skype para plataformas não-Microsoft.

De acordo com a Lei Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR Act), em vigor nos EUA, as partes envolvidas em certas fusões e aquisições de grande porte devem preencher uma notificação pré-fusão e esperar por análise governamental, informa o site da FTC.

As partes que propõem o acordo devem enviar uma cópia do documento à FTC e outra ao Departamento de Justiça (DOJ), mas apenas a agência FTC dará um parecer sobre a proposta de fusão.

Os responsáveis pelo preenchimento e entrega da notificação podem solicitar que o período de espera termine antes do fim do prazo previsto pelos regulamentos, mas um eventual pedido de «early termination» só é concedido depois que a FTC e a divisão do DOJ terminem as suas análises e decidam não adoptar qualquer acção legal durante o período de espera, afirmou a FTC.

Diário Digital

[dr_sedento]

2 toqs a 24,5 e a resistencia dos 24,75 foi-se com grande facilidade...

onde e q vai parar?

[andre_ferreira]

Para já, o mercado não está a reagir bem à notícia, com a Microsoft a cair cerca de 2%.

Um abraço,
Ulisses

Também pudera. A Microsoft com um domínio tão grande no serviço do Messenger vai agora comprar a Skype para quê? Se alargasse o Messenger a mais plataformas com a funcionalidade de voz rapidamente superava o Skype.

Os últimos anos têm sido desastrosos para a Microsoft com as suas políticas monopolistas a não resultar em nada. Basta ver o google que aposta em todas as plataformas (exemplo google maps) enquanto a Microsoft se limita às suas plataformas (contra exemplo Bing Maps).

Penso que com o Facebook o Messenger perdeu muitos clientes e a MSFT pretende ganhar clientes muito rapidamente comprando o Skype, que são cerca de 600 milhoes.

[Mikito]

Boas!

O grafico espelha uma figura bastante conhecida bearish - H&S. O seu neckline é nos 25$.



BN

[helderjsm]

Para já, o mercado não está a reagir bem à notícia, com a Microsoft a cair cerca de 2%.

Um abraço,
Ulisses

Também pudera. A Microsoft com um domínio tão grande no serviço do Messenger vai agora comprar a Skype para quê? Se alargasse o Messenger a mais plataformas com a funcionalidade de voz rapidamente superava o Skype.

Os últimos anos têm sido desastrosos para a Microsoft com as suas políticas monopolistas a não resultar em nada. Basta ver o google que aposta em todas as plataformas (exemplo google maps) enquanto a Microsoft se limita às suas plataformas (contra exemplo Bing Maps).

[Ulisses Pereira]

Para já, o mercado não está a reagir bem à notícia, com a Microsoft a cair cerca de 2%.

Um abraço,
Ulisses

[Elias]

Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5B in cash (fonte Dow Jones Newswires).

Microsoft confirms takeover of Skype
10 May 2011 Last updated at 12:18 GMT

Skype website Skype had previously planned a share flotation

Microsoft has confirmed that it has agreed to buy internet phone service Skype.

The deal will see Microsoft pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype, making it Microsoft's largest acquisition.

Luxembourg-based Skype has 663 million global users. In August last year it announced plans for a share flotation, but this was subsequently put on hold.

Internet auction house eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn in 2006, before selling 70% of it in 2009 for $2bn.

Skype is now majority-owned by a group of investors, led by private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.


Price concerns

Analysts say Microsoft's aim in buying Skype is to improve its video conferencing services.

Although the price tag of $8.5bn will not stretch the US giant, some experts have questioned whether it is paying too much for a company that has struggled to turn a profit.

Michael Clendenin, managing director of consulting firm RedTech Advisors, said: "If you consider [Skype] was just valued at about $2.5bn 18 months ago when a chunk was sold off, then $8.5bn seems generous.

"[It] means Microsoft has a high wall to climb to prove to investors that Skype is a necessary linchpin for the company's online and mobile strategy."

This view was echoed by Ben Woods, head of research group CCS Insight.

"The big unanswered question is how do Skype assets work for Microsoft... how do you justify the price?" he said.

Skype was founded in 2003.

Calls to other Skype users are free, while the company charges for those made to both traditional landline phones and mobiles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

[paubo]

Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5B in cash (fonte Dow Jones Newswires).

[Elias]

Microsoft Q3 Profit Rises, Tops Estimate - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: News ) reported net income of $5.2 billion or $0.61 per share for the third quarter, compared to $4.0 billion or $0.45 per share in the year-ago quarter.

Revenue for the third quarter increased to $16.4 billion from $14.5 billion in the prior year quarter.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report earnings of $0.56 per share on revenue of $16.19 billion for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/QuickFac ... Id=1609568