Tech News: Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG)’s Tardy Proceedings & Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)’s Blunder

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Google discloses it paid $966 million for Waze (DailyHerald)
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) says that it paid $966 million to buy online mapping service Waze, six weeks after closing the deal. The Internet search leader spelled out the purchase price in regulatory documents filed Thursday. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) withheld the price last month when it announced the acquisition of the Israel-based startup. The Associated Press and other media outlets had previously pegged the purchase price at $1 billion, based on information from people familiar with the negotiations who didn’t want to be named.

Microsoft’s big data Bob (ITWorldCanada)
Earlier this week there have been lots of talk that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is poised to re-launch its 1990s-era virtual assistant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bob. Marketed then as a non-technical interface to desktop computing operations for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Bob was one of the software company’s more visible flops at that time. Flash forward to today when numerous analysts and some users are finding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Siri and More recently Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Now quite irritating, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is proposing a big data version of its old Bob concept.



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