acquisitions
Microsoft has acquired Wunderlist
Microsoft has acquired Wunderlist
Amir Mizroch of The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft bought Wunderlist’s parent company 6Wunderkinder for between $100 and $200 million. Microsoft is on a roll, having recently acquired Sunrise calendar and purchased email app Acompli and rebranded it as Outlook for mobile. All three apps are well-regarded, particularly Outlook which was lauded by Vlad Savov at The Verge for its email, contacts, calendar and documents integration. [^1]
Wunderlist is my task manager of choice, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this story. If you haven’t tried it yet I highly recommend having a look.
[1]: Lawyers, however, should think twice before using Outlook for work because it runs everything through Microsoft’s servers to provide its more powerful features. Read more about the concerns at WindowsITPro.

UPDATED: Google Acquires Wi-Fi Provider ICOA for $400 Million
UPDATED: Google Acquires Wi-Fi Provider ICOA for $400 Million
Updated: This is not true.
Angela Moscaritolo of PCMag.com reports:
In a statement, Google said it made the acquisition to “further diversify its already impressive portfolio of companies.” The Web giant did not elaborate about its motivation for the deal.
You don’t spent $400 million on something that isn’t strategically important to your business. I predict that Google WiFi will launch in 2013.