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2009 PREDICTIONS

Tips for Microsoft, Amazon, others

By John Cook on November 26, 2008 at 1:58 PM PST

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Amazon.com | Google | Microsoft | Yahoo

What should Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Amazon.com and eBay do in 2009? That's the question that Alex Iskold of ReadWriteWeb tries to answer in this informative post on how the big Internet companies should position themselves amid the economic headwinds.

Iskold offers a couple tips for each of the tech titans, noting that Microsoft needs to "execute faster and better" while Amazon.com should "simplify and clean up the product pages." A good read.

And what about troubled Yahoo? Iskold notes:

"Yahoo! is in a really tough spot. It seems the only way out is through a focus on innovation (that is, if it really doesn't want to sell to Microsoft). First, Yahoo! needs to figure out what business it wants to be in, and then it needs to execute flawlessly in the direction it chooses."

TMC2K said:

on November 26, 2008 at 10:30 PM

Since you ask about Amazon and Microsoft. I'd thought I'd point you to my blog post review on Microsoft's cloud computing initiative. I don't think their first pass is something that companies should place bets on yet.

http://blog.thommccann.com/2008/11/microsoft-windows-azure.html

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