MICROSOFT SPINNING OUT WALLOP

So Microsoft is spinning out Wallop, which is cool. Karl Jacobs, a serial entrepreneur, will be the CEO of this new entity. What's cooler is that I wrote about how Wallop should be opened for business along with some other suggestions last February :)

Anyway, TechCrunch has a review and so does Om.

Microsoft's Don Dodge has some inside news about how this is part of a new Microsoft initiative, Microsoft IP Ventures, to license their technology to interested parties, which is similar to what large research universities do.