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Google’s launch of its Google Apps Engine web hosting service on Monday puts it in direct competition with Amazon’s web services offerings. But Google’s step goes beyond hosting web applications for startups - the company is now directly vying with Amazon to become the foundation upon which to build new Internet companies.
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With the acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft looking ever more likely, it’s time for the future combined entity (yes, that’s right - MicroHoo) to face reality. If the purpose of the merger is to beat Google at search, then it will fail. Google has won the search wars - get over it. […]

The wily Michael Arrington caused quite the fuss a few days ago by criticizing blog networks that take venture capital and suggesting that TechCrunch and other leading technology blogs instead band together to create a “dream team” blog network that would, in Arrington’s words, “kill CNET.” Henry Blodget, founder of the Silicon Valley Insider […]