{"id":80,"date":"2007-11-18T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/18\/microsoft-buys-musiwave\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T23:13:00","slug":"microsoft-buys-musiwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/microsoft-buys-musiwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buys Musiwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R0DK9SC6FaI\/AAAAAAAABaM\/mZHg7uzlOI8\/s1600-h\/MicrosoftLogo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:171px;height:41px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R0DK9SC6FaI\/AAAAAAAABaM\/mZHg7uzlOI8\/s320\/MicrosoftLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It did not take too long to bring down the value of mobile music spearheads Musiwave from $130m to $50m. The former was the price Openwave paid for the French company in 2005, the latter is what Microsoft now splashed out to buy it from Openwave ($46m in cash and $4m in assumption of debt). And at this price, it looks like a rather good buy for the world&#8217;s largest software maker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R0DLESC6FbI\/AAAAAAAABaU\/jr0IZDnaRj8\/s1600-h\/Musiwave.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R0DLESC6FbI\/AAAAAAAABaU\/jr0IZDnaRj8\/s320\/Musiwave.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Microsoft has acquired  what was an early leader in mobile music. Musiwave is a giant in mobile distribution of music content &#8211; everything from ringtones, ringbacks and full-track downloads to music recognition, etc. Whilst Microsoft will have seized access to a trusted carrier-grade database and provisioning environment as well as Musiwave&#8217;s extensive relationships with all players on the mobile music circuit &#8211; labels, carriers and device manufacturers. Now it will have to show that it can marry it to its own music-centered services, in particular around its Zunes device and service.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Microsoft seems to be a much more natural home to Musiwave than Openwave would seem to have been. Good luck to the tall guys in Musiwave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It did not take too long to bring down the value of mobile music spearheads Musiwave from $130m to $50m. The former was the price Openwave paid for the French company in 2005, the latter is what Microsoft now splashed out to buy it from Openwave ($46m in cash and $4m in assumption of debt). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[381,407,445,490,751],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile-music","tag-musiwave","tag-openwave","tag-zune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1i","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}