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While Google was busy launching its Music Beta service at Google I/O this morning, Microsoft dropped its own bombshell of a news headline by announcing its agreement with Skype to acquire the online communications company for $8.5 billion in cash. It’s a large markup from the $3.1 billion that EBay paid for the company back in 2005, but somehow Microsoft thinks its worth it.
Today, Microsoft is hitting Google where it has no solution yet by partnering with LA-based sound licensing site AudioMicro (Full disclosure: Lalawag founder Sean Percival just signed on board the company as an advisor), to make 1,500 sound effects free for Office users to use in their documents and presentations.
The gloves have finally come off in the search engine wars. Yesterday, Google fired the first salvo at Microsoft, accusing its Bing service of blatantly pilfering search engine results from Google’s own results. Microsoft initially said “so what?” to the claim, then eventually shifted to the offensive as the day went on.
CES can be an overwhelming dump of announcements and information so we here at Lalawag have put together a little roundup of some of the most interesting gadgets to catch our eye in the first day. If you need some fodder to geek out with your friends, you’ve come to the right place.
Microsoft is kicking off their 2010 CES by livestreaming their keynote tonight at 6:30 PST. Lalawag will be here to add our own snarky commentary to the event’s proceedings. If you’re into that sort of thing, please join us in our live chat.
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