Jobs: Jackpot! And in other news today (or rather yesterday if you’re American): Disney buys Pixar from Apple’s Steve Jobs. The deal was rumoured for a while but it wasn’t confirmed until tuesday. Both companies have agreed to an ‘all-stock merger’ that will give Pixar shareholders 2.3 shares of Disney for each share they presently own in Pixar. It’s a deal valued at slightly more than $7.5 billion. Jobs will also get a chair in the board of directors: a fact that has some observers already tipping him to be Disney’s new chairman. One year ago Jobs and former Disney […]
Hear no evil, speak no evil
Google: going for the big money This came a big suprise for me: Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China’s fast-growing market. It seems that the company that prides itself in its motto “don’t be evil”, is giving in to the big money. The Chinese Google site wil be available under http://www.google.cn and will be censored. Google’s decision on China comes less than a week after it resisted efforts by the US Department of Justice to make it disclose data on what people were searching for. According to […]