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IT's Big Spenders
TechEGrl writes "R&D spending increased by 17 percent in 2006, according to a new report on CIO Insight that ranks the top 81 R&D spenders. The spending was mostly targeted at consumer rather than business products, though Microsoft — not surprisingly the biggest spender with an investment of $6.58 billion — did throw significant change at biz apps like the Vista operating system. Investment in Internet search was dominated by Google, which more than doubled its R&D spending in 2006 and far outpaced competitors like Yahoo and eBay."
Interestingly Google is tagged under 'Software' rather than 'Internet Services' like Yahoo. Probably a sneak peek at what's to expect.
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."
$6.58 billion on R&D and they still have dialog boxes like this.
Incredible.
No it doesn't. Performing research into improving current technologies is also research, the result will not be something new, but something better. It would be interesting to have a list of how much companies invest in fundamental research.
The list does make me wonder: what is a technology company? The biggest trigger for this wonder is the strange omission of one Xerox corp. With $922 million of R&D in 2006 it should have been ranked 13 (which seems strangly fitting considering the IP-Address space they have).
DARPA spent only $3.01 billion. Less on electronics.
They're falling...