Microsoft acquiring Danger

Picking up the pieces that Andy Rubin and Joe Britt dropped… after WebTV (now MSN TV) Microsoft picked up Danger. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and personal information management applications. What better way to compete with Android than nabbing the company that Android founder Andy Rubin helped build?

GigaOm found out the price and has an interesting analysis.