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This 5 page paper comments on three issues: The effect on share prices of Microsoft's Internet competitors when Microsoft acquires companies; Whether or not Microsoft competitors are threatened by Microsoft's financial moves; and If the financial market should feel threatened by Microsoft's dominance in the operating system market. For the first issue, the writer provides three examples of recent acquisitions and makes general comments. The second issue is approached by demonstrating how, in at least one market, other companies give more competition to Microsoft than the other way around. Finally, the writer discusses Microsoft's smart card operating system and the threat this poses. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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by Microsofts dominance in the operating system market. In just the last few months, Microsoft has acquired at least three other companies: 1. Vicinity Corporation, located in Sunnyvale, California
is a location-based services company (eWeek, 2002). Pending approval from regulatory agencies, the deal will be completed by the end of first quarter 2003 (eWeek, 2002). Vicinity will then merge
with Microsofts MapPoint unit (eWeek, 2002). Vicinity provides "application services and APIs for corporations who want to direct their customers to the nearest service outlet or store" (eWeek, 2002).
The deal pays Vicinity shareholders $3.33 for each share of common stock they hold in Vicinity; at the time of this announcement, Vicinity shares were going for $2.24 (eWeek, 2002).
2. Rare Limited, a software games publisher in the United Kingdom (European Report, 2002). Rare published a number of games, including "Donkey Kong" (European Report, 2002). Nintendo had recently sold
its 49 percent share in Rare to Microsoft (European Report, 2002). Five of the highest selling video games were published by Rare (European Report, 2002). Rare will now develop
games for Microsofts Xbox (European Report, 2002). Microsoft paid USD375 million in cash for the company plus an undisclosed they paid to Nintendo (European Report, 2002). 3. Navision, a
Danish company that develops enterprise and accounting software (The Practical Accountant, 2002). Microsoft had acquired Great Plains, another business software developer, the prior year (The Practical Accountant, 2002). Navision employees
will work with the Great Plains Business Solutions division (The Practical Accountant, 2002). The senior vice president who is the leader of Microsofts Business Solutions team commented that the company
would be focusing and investing on Microsofts .NET business applications (The Practical Accountant, 2002). None of these acquisitions seemed to have any direct impact on the share prices of Microsofts
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