Fahad HApr 25, 20162 min readGoogle, Microsoft agree not to fight proxy regulatory battles against one anotherLast week, Microsoft and Google decided to play nice. The two companies agreed to stop filing complaints about one another with...
Fahad HApr 15, 20142 min readGoogle Tells Users It Scans Their Email As Microsoft Puts “Scroogled” To Bedupdated its terms of service (TOS) yesterday to make more explicit the fact that it scans Gmail for the purpose of matching email content...
Fahad HMar 27, 20142 min readUK Watchdog Clears Microsoft’s Scroogled-Style Radio Ad Against False Advertising ClaimsAdvertising Standards Authority (ASA) has cleared a radio ad attacking Google’s privacy practices against complaints that it amounted to...
Fahad HMar 21, 20147 min readHow Microsoft Scroogled Itself As The Defender Of Email Privacy Over GoogleFor just over a year, Microsoft has been attacking Google over email privacy. Consumers are getting “Scroogled” by a Google that doesn’t...
Fahad HMar 4, 20142 min readMicrosoft Board Chair: Company Culture Must ChangeIn a candid statement to Fortune, Microsoft Board Chairman John Thompson likened Microsoft to IBM 25 years ago and acknowledged that the...
Fahad HNov 26, 20135 min readMicrosoft’s Scroogled Campaign Hits New Low, Uses “Pawn Stars” Guys To Attack Chro“Wow. How sad.” That was my reaction to watching the latest in Microsoft’s Scroogled campaign against Google, this time using two of the...
Fahad HNov 21, 20131 min readGoogle On Microsoft’s Scroogled Clothes: Competition In Wearables “Really Heating UpRsell Scroogled swag. Today, in response to the new merchandise on the Microsoft Store, Google sent out a formal statement: Microsoft’s...
Fahad HNov 20, 20133 min read“Keep Calm While We Steal Your Data” – Microsoft Now Selling Scroogled Merchandiselast November in a new direction: merchandise. Now, consumers can purchase “Don’t Get Scroogled” products from the Microsoft Store with...
Fahad HOct 16, 20133 min readIs Microsoft’s Scroogled Campaign Working? Not If Gaining Consumers Is The GoalScroogled” campaign for almost a year now. Is it working? Ad Age has an interesting story with experts saying yes, in terms of ad...
Fahad HAug 9, 20131 min readMicrosoft’s Latest Scroogled Target: Google’s “Gspam” Ads That Look Like EmaOr, as Microsoft is calling it today, “Gspam.” That’s the term they’re using for those ads that look like emails in Gmail (which, last I...
Fahad HMar 5, 20134 min readThe Rise & Fall Of Microsoft’s “Scroogled” Petition Against GmailAt First, The Petition To Nowhere Last month, I covered how after the first week of its existence, Microsoft’s petition was seeing a...
Fahad HMar 4, 20133 min readMicrosoft Dropping “Scroogled” Ads That Attack GoogleMicrosoft is reportedly ending buying TV, newspaper and social media ads promoting its “Scroogled” campaign, which was launched in...
Fahad HFeb 14, 201312 min readMicrosoft’s “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of UsersScroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How’s that been working out?...
Fahad HFeb 7, 20136 min readMicrosoft Attacks Gmail Over Privacy In Latest “Scroogled” Campaignattacked Google Shopping with a “Scroogled” campaign last November, Microsoft is back again. This time it goes after Gmail as an evil...
