News mogul Rupert Murdoch is no friend of Google. He sees them as the Evil Empire that is ‘disintermediating’ news consumers from their source. But that hasn’t prevented his newspaper company News Corp Australia from moving towards Google Apps from Microsoft Office. Murdoch’s local mouthpiece The Australian, known for its…

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Rupert Murdoch is fond of berating Google, last year emitting the Tweet below and previously accusing it of stealing his precious content. What, then are we to make of this report titled "News Corp dumps Microsoft for Google Apps" in The Australian, a national daily newspaper that Murdoch himself created…

WEBMAIL USERS who favour Microsoft’s Outlook.com, formerly called Hotmail, can now integrate Skype with their webmail accounts. Skype has become a powerful weapon for Microsoft since its acquisition in 2011, owing to its large existing user base that has remained loyal in the face of Google’s continued advances. The new…