Google recently bumped salaries 10% to quash defections to Facebook and doled out millions more to keep two of its best product managers from going to Twitter.

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Google recently bumped salaries 10% to quash defections to Facebook and doled out hundreds of millions more to keep just two of its product managers from going to Twitter.

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The Danish company could have licensed a product from another company to keep pace.

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One month after the merger announcement, Robison, Executive Vice President Clarke and a few other execs entered a "clean room, " where 10, 000 decisions about the new company, from what product lines to keep to which pension plan to use, would be made ahead of the merger's approval.

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My point is that they are not good enough to keep an online shopper from going to another site with a lower price for the same product.

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Better still, from Apple's point of view, Microsoft has to keep its doors wide open to whatever Apple product Jobs cares to give away.

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