2. Microsoft
There were several rumors this week regarding Microsoft trying to acquire other companies. A report from Bloomberg says that Redmond put in a bid for a minority stake in Nokia’s HERE maps division. Microsoft is just one of many companies rumored to be making offers. Uber, Apple, Facebook, and a group of German auto makers are all rumored to be interested. We’ll see the final list in a couple of weeks when final bids are due.
Microsoft also reportedly tried and failed to acquire Salesforce.com, a company that they partnered with in May of 2014. Acccording to CNBC, Microsoft was prepared to offer a whopping $ 55 billion, which fell short of the $ 70 billion that Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was looking for.
Another company that Microsoft is reportedly eyeing is 6Wunderkinder, developer of the task management app Wunderlist. The potential deal could be an effort for Microsoft to expand their user base across different platforms.
And with the goal in mind, Microsoft is developing a new Outlook companion app called ‘Flow’ for the iPhone (and likely Windows 10 and Android) that will be a hybrid email-chat program. Some pictures of the app surfaced this week, as well as indications that other similar cross-platform productivity apps are in pipeline.
OneClip is one such app that appeared on the scene unannounced this week. This universal sharing app lets you copy and paste text, photos, documents and more between devices on different operating systems.
Our early impressions of OneClip were positive, even on other platforms, but sadly, Microsoft killed the leaked OneClip beta app on the backend for the time being. We’re just going to have to wait until they officially release it on their own terms.
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Source : androidcentral
Tags = 2015, ICYMI
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