Business - Written Monday, January 25, 2010 by Derek Pokora - 4 Comments

Collaboration as competition. Microsoft decides to “collaborate”.

First off, thanks to Alex Bogusky for letting me piggyback the title of this post.

Last month my colleague Laura Carrillo asked if it will be Apple or Google to own the third screen. Recent events have provided an opportunity for a third contender in the quest for the third screen: Microsoft.

Tentative talks have been underway for weeks now between rivals Microsoft and Apple to replace Google with Bing as the default search engine on all iPhones.  The last time something like this happened it was Microsoft allowing iTunes on the Windows platform in 2003. Continue…