A number of business technology has not occurred by the parties involved do not see the potential and future products.
Yahoo misses Facebook
2006, Facebook was the first start two years and capital integrity 8 million users, while MySpace is making rain as the wind with 100 million members. Meanwhile, Yahoo has proposed to buy social network with attractive prices $ 1 billion, nearly double the amount of investment for Rupert Murdoch MySpace in 2005.
However, Yahoo experienced some financial difficulties, stocks down 22% so quickly CEO Terry Semel is lowering its price down to 800 million in Facebook, age 23 Founder Mark Zuckerberg decided Regression. Two months later, Yahoo repeated the offer initially but was too late. Currently Facebook is a social network of the world with 250 million members, value estimated 50-10 billion. Yahoo still after 3 years with two CEOs still life continues directions for their services.
Real Networks dislikes iPod
CEO Steve Jobs of Apple did not invent the iPod, but he accepted the development concept by Tony Fadell form after the idea of engineers was the Philips and Real Networks deny the fall of 2000.
At that time, many models have appeared on the music player market but Fadell small device, thinner and focus on content development. Repository content that is iTunes and Apple controls 80% of the online music market. Real Networks are also participating in this market, but sales too small compared with Apple.
Sony and Toshiba disagreement about HD standards
Middle decades of the 90th century, the world also witnessed a fight optical disc technology and related parties have sat together to unify the format for the birth Digital Versatile Disc (DVD).
Race to determine the next-generation optical disc standard not happen so smoothly. Since 2002, Sony and Toshiba each party formed a coalition to support their format (Blu-ray and HD DVD is not compatible with each other). In 2008, Sony made the U.S. flag when Warner Brothers paid to amount to $ 400 million for this movie studios abandon HD DVD production and switch to movies on Blu-ray.
Toshiba HD DVD and losses with Sony also take no less effort and money to win but today, sales of Blu-ray is only one tenth compared to DVD. Not to mention the future, users will tend to download content on the network and video on demand (VoD) instead of buying discs.
Opportunity for Microsoft
1980, when IBM wanted to find partners to build the operating system for IBM PC, Microsoft is not first choice. Big Blue has to meet Gary Kildall of Digital Research Company, author operating system CP / M. However, because you have another customer, Kildall's wife to negotiate with Ms. Dorothy Kildall and IBM did not like some part of this agreement the company.
Online search before Google
Between the 1990, the technology is not the most popular search on Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos or Hot Wired, which is the Open Text Web Index. Similar to Google today, Open Text was praised by speed, accurate and comprehensive.
Yahoo's search technology has put Open Text in their services. But after two years, Open Text quit to move to content management business without knowing that the online search will flourished how. A year after Google appeared and was "in his big" look with eyes half but now the airline is almost dominated all content on the Internet.
PC World (Photos: Vnexpress).
