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Google reactie op Microhoo: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
from Official Google Blog
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It’s what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
So Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
This hostile bid was announced on Friday, so there is plenty of time for these questions to be thoroughly addressed. We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously. They are the core of our culture. We believe that the interests of Internet users come first — and should come first — as the merits of this proposed acquisition are examined and alternatives explored.
Hi Erwin,
Je zal het wel druk hebben met al het nieuws van de afgelopen week bij te houden.
Success ermee, en als je nog een keer op vakantie gaat…Zal er dan weer zoveel gebeuren? LOL
@ Alderd: eBay protecting brand owners aka VERO policy was the last straw (lde laatste druppel) (net als bij Quikdrop): De CEO van falliet eBay Drop-Off Auctioning4U schrijft “The combination of the sheer size of the problem (more than 18,000 firms monitoring eBay for alleged infringements), the lack of any incentives of those firms to show restraint in their take-down actions and eBay’s three strikes out policy are lethal. eBay closed our main eBay shop four times over the years meaning almost unbearable pain and costs for a trading assistant. As an emergency measure we had to stop taking fashion items in the summer last year making the shops unviable. But even non-fashion items will become a problem over time.”
bron:
@Ansgar: zover als ik kan beoordelen is er veel te veel op 1 paard gewed. Waarom niet een eigen webshop als backup gebruikt als multi-channel sales? WIj waren daar al snel achter.
De mix met eigen webshop, eBay, Marktplaats, Speurders en http://www.allestekoop.com heeft ons toch tot we zelf stopten gezorgd voor een goede cashflow.
In combinatie met lage overhead hebben we toch weten te overleven en zelfs nog een paar goede doelen kunnen ondersteunen. Maar, door het succes van de verkopen van Klushandel was het niet langer haalbaar de tijdvretende consignatiehandel te handhaven.
Je ziet het: lange termijnplanning gebaseerd op third-parties is zeer moeilijk. Vandaag bedenken ze dit, morgen dat…
Het verhaal bij de sluiting van eBay Express is, volgens de officiele lezing, dat “eBay heeft geleerd van Express en een aantal afzonderlijke functies daarvan verwerkt (heeft) in de reguliere eBay”
Welkom terug!
Google reactie op Microhoo: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
from Official Google Blog
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It’s what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
So Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
This hostile bid was announced on Friday, so there is plenty of time for these questions to be thoroughly addressed. We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously. They are the core of our culture. We believe that the interests of Internet users come first — and should come first — as the merits of this proposed acquisition are examined and alternatives explored.
Gespot op sinaas: eBay Drop Off UK Auctioning4u/Clockworx RIP. Ben benieuwd waaraan de 2.25 miljoen GBP aan zijn opgegaan…
Hi Erwin,
Je zal het wel druk hebben met al het nieuws van de afgelopen week bij te houden.
Success ermee, en als je nog een keer op vakantie gaat…Zal er dan weer zoveel gebeuren? LOL
Dennis
Let op mijn woorden, volgende keer als ik met vakantie ga wordt eBay verkocht of zoiets
Edit: Hmmm … nu ik erover denk. Volgende week ben ik verminderd online. Dus zou dan blijken dat niet Microsoft maar eBay dat Yahoo koopt? …
@ Alderd: eBay protecting brand owners aka VERO policy was the last straw (lde laatste druppel) (net als bij Quikdrop): De CEO van falliet eBay Drop-Off Auctioning4U schrijft “The combination of the sheer size of the problem (more than 18,000 firms monitoring eBay for alleged infringements), the lack of any incentives of those firms to show restraint in their take-down actions and eBay’s three strikes out policy are lethal. eBay closed our main eBay shop four times over the years meaning almost unbearable pain and costs for a trading assistant. As an emergency measure we had to stop taking fashion items in the summer last year making the shops unviable. But even non-fashion items will become a problem over time.”
bron:
http://www.trevorginn.com/christian-braun-on-clockworx-going-into-administration/
@Ansgar: zover als ik kan beoordelen is er veel te veel op 1 paard gewed. Waarom niet een eigen webshop als backup gebruikt als multi-channel sales? WIj waren daar al snel achter.
De mix met eigen webshop, eBay, Marktplaats, Speurders en http://www.allestekoop.com heeft ons toch tot we zelf stopten gezorgd voor een goede cashflow.
In combinatie met lage overhead hebben we toch weten te overleven en zelfs nog een paar goede doelen kunnen ondersteunen. Maar, door het succes van de verkopen van Klushandel was het niet langer haalbaar de tijdvretende consignatiehandel te handhaven.
Je ziet het: lange termijnplanning gebaseerd op third-parties is zeer moeilijk. Vandaag bedenken ze dit, morgen dat…
Ik lees ook net dan eBay Express in de UK gestopt wordt.
http://www.trevorginn.com/ebays-recent-changes/
Het verhaal bij de sluiting van eBay Express is, volgens de officiele lezing, dat “eBay heeft geleerd van Express en een aantal afzonderlijke functies daarvan verwerkt (heeft) in de reguliere eBay”