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Report: Microsoft paying $500m for Danger

Microsoft didn't disclose a purchase price Monday when announcing its agreement to buy Danger Inc., the company behind T-Mobile's Sidekick device. Today, Om Malik, citing a "fairly solid source," reports that the purchase price is $500 million. Of course, it's not exactly in the realm of Yahoo, but such a price would rank the Danger acquisition among the larger deals the Redmond company has made.

The company still isn't commenting, so for now the report is unconfirmed. It's not clear if the purchase price would be material to the company's financial results, but it will be worth watching to see if the value is reported in a regulatory filing after the deal closes.

Posted by at February 12, 2008 3:19 p.m.
Category: Mobile Devices

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Posted by macker at 2/12/08 5:58 p.m.

'Danger'.....funny. They might as well buy a company called 'danger', because that is what they are playing with, while they try to force major linux users (google's, autozone, etc) into paying them a royalty, for unknown patents, which they won't disclose, other than you owe us money... Yep, that worked out well fore Darl McBribe with SCO, LOL.

MS is a freaking joke.

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Posted by unregistered user at 2/13/08 12:46 p.m.

Yeah Macker, 6.962 billion in profit last quarter, 4.7 billion net income, while you're eating granola and alfalfa sprouts while playing nethack on your VT100.

A real freaking joke.

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Posted by macker at 2/13/08 8:32 p.m.

hah, you ignorant fool, unregistered. 4.7 billion in income, down 75% over the past 5 years, cash reserves dropped 75% - you don't think open source is a threat?

Your a joke, i just hope you are not mentally unstable.

But stick w/ your c#, and your weird, proprietary TCP stack, lol. And your silverlight (which no one cares about, lol)... keep figuring out how to compete. YOu gained your steam off piratred software, and are a HAS been company. You smell, and it's just not curry.

You rock!

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