Friday, January 4, 2013

Microsoft to Google: Play fair with Youtube

In this article Microsoft is claiming Google is distributing YouTube data to its mobile competitors unequally. Google is refusing to give up YouTube's "metadata," which includes video categories, favorites and ratings, for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system Microsoft says.  A source says that it doesn't make sense for Google to write apps for every mobile operating system. Windows Phone also isn't popular enough to compete with Google. to develop and support a separate app for Microsoft phones. Windows Phone made up less than 3% of the smartphones around the world. Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, Google is playing favorites with Apple, "which doesn't offer a competing search service."


 http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/03/technology/microsoft-google-youtube/index.html

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