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Microsoft Corp. is willing to invest up to 10% of its operating income in its Internet search business for up to five years, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday, as its "Bing" search engine starts to gain ground with Web surfers.
Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data released on Wednesday, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
The state of Mississippi settled an anti-trust suit with Microsoft for $100 million Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local government were eligible for a share of the money.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its answer to the Nintendo Wii.
Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game.
Microsoft and Google, the Hatfields and McCoys of the high-tech industry, have carried their scrap into the race to digitize health care.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it is moving forward with a second wave of mass layoffs, getting the company closer to its target of 5,000 job cuts by mid 2010, according to an e-mail Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sent employees.
Facebook might have a larger audience than the population of Brazil (200 million users vs. 191 million citizens), but the site doesn't yet have a viable business model. Twitter is wildly popular but it loses money. Could the codgers at software giant Microsoft (a Facebook investor) be the guys who end up figuring out how to make money on social networks?
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company.
Microsoft Corp. is willing to invest up to 10% of its operating income in its Internet search business for up to five years, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday, as its "Bing" search engine starts to gain ground with Web surfers.
Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data released on Wednesday, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
The state of Mississippi settled an anti-trust suit with Microsoft for $100 million Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local government were eligible for a share of the money.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its answer to the Nintendo Wii.
Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game.
Microsoft and Google, the Hatfields and McCoys of the high-tech industry, have carried their scrap into the race to digitize health care.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it is moving forward with a second wave of mass layoffs, getting the company closer to its target of 5,000 job cuts by mid 2010, according to an e-mail Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sent employees.
Facebook might have a larger audience than the population of Brazil (200 million users vs. 191 million citizens), but the site doesn't yet have a viable business model. Twitter is wildly popular but it loses money. Could the codgers at software giant Microsoft (a Facebook investor) be the guys who end up figuring out how to make money on social networks?
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company.
With the Conficker worm still hot and Microsoft patching multiple more software vulnerabilities last week, it might be reasonable to assume the bad guys are winning the battle to get control over Internet-connected computers.
After a mixed assortment of tech sector earnings last week, the industry will face a tough test this week when sector giants IBM, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft all report their quarterly finances.
With the stock market finally showing that it can go up as well as down, you might be wondering if you should get back into the fray - and worried about the possibility of more dips to come. One relatively low-risk strategy is to look for financially sound companies that offer both reliable dividends and the prospect of some real upside in share price. A sterling example: the world's largest software maker, Microsoft, which has an annual dividend yield of just under 3%.
Should a bridge that would connect two campuses at Microsoft's headquarters be funded with $11 million from the federal stimulus package?
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday she is putting a Microsoft executive in charge of protecting the U.S. government's computing systems.
Software giant Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of hackers behind a powerful computer virus that could lead to millions of PCs being hijacked.
Companies repurchased huge chunks of their own stock when prices were peaking. Buybacks for S&P 500 companies hit a high of $150 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Thomson Reuters.
"I didn't come here to sell the company." That was the answer Carol Bartz gave at her first earnings presentation since being installed two weeks ago as Yahoo CEO. "I am here because I see a tremendous collection of assets, and because I want to help make Yahoo stronger." But when addressing the question whether she would sell the Internet company's search business, Bartz did not offer the same emphatic, "no."
Microsoft has made some stumbles in the mobile world, but a strategy shift made more than a year ago will soon pay dividends, the company's top Windows Mobile executive said in an interview with CNET News.
Stocks slumped Thursday, as a management shakeup at Bank of America and Microsoft's earnings disappointment weighed on investor sentiment.
So much for the tech sector keeping the economy afloat.
Software maker Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday it will cut up to 5,000 jobs in the next year and a half, or 5.5% of its global workforce, citing further deterioration of global economic conditions.
U.S. stocks opened lower Thursday after Microsoft's surprise announcement that it was cutting up to 5,000 jobs over 18 months and missed earnings estimates.
A new sleeper virus that could allow hackers to steal financial and personal information has now spread to more than eight million computers in what industry analysts say is one of the most serious infections they have ever seen.
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing.
Microsoft has announced it will offer an online version of the Office suite, but you won't see it until 2010. In the meantime, try Zoho or Google Docs.
Microsoft announced Thursday that revenue and profits rose in its fiscal first quarter thanks to strong sales in its server and business software segments.
Last month, Microsoft announced it was going to spend $40 billion buying back its own stock. Traditionally, that would have meant a payday for its investors. With Microsoft using its own spare cash to reduce the number of outstanding shares, earnings per share should have improved, and the stock price should have ticked upwards.
Microsoft announced Monday that it was planning to buy back an additional $40 billion worth of shares and fellow tech giant HP followed with a proposal to repurchase $8 billion worth of stock.
Software giant Microsoft Corp. said Monday its board approved a plan to buy back up to another $40 billion of its shares
The software giant's new ad starring Jerry Seinfeld has drawn largely negative reviews online after premiering Thursday night during NBC's broadcast of the National Football League's season kickoff game
As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases
Technology writer Josh Quittner explains why comedian Jerry Seinfeld is the perfect person to promote the computer and software company's beleaguered Vista operating system
Seinfeld will be a key pitchman in a planned $300 million fall advertising campaign for Microsoft
The comic will debut Sept. 4 in ads meant to compete with Apple's popular Mac Guy
Digital cameras have liberated awe-struck travelers and proud parents from worrying about the price of film processing. But showing off those megapixels of memories is still reminiscent of tedious living room slideshows -- and perhaps now worse
Could faster chips translate into slower computers? That's the sales-threatening prospect furrowing brows in every corner of the PC business, from industry titans such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple to major centers of academe.
Veteran Microsoft Corp. executive Kevin Johnson, who headed the software giant's online business and played a key role in the bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the company, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
Shares of Microsoft Corp. dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading after the software giant posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that fell short of Wall Street's estimates as it forecast lower-than-expected revenue for the following quarter.
Microsoft Corp. is trimming the price of its Xbox 360 video game console to make way for a new model with a bigger hard drive
Microsoft is trimming the price of its Xbox 360 video game console to make way for a new model with a bigger hard drive.
Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal
In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion.
It was too weird to be true. In late 2006, a series of videos appeared on YouTube about a Willow Springs, Ill., resident named Kyle Bone who'd created a successful product called "the anti-shirt" - a shirt that exposed the area of one's torso that a normal tee shirt would cover and revealed the area that would otherwise be exposed. In short, said Bone, it cured the age-old problem of "farmer's tan."
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday
Microsoft is pushing hard to stop Google from teaming up with Yahoo now that the software giant has given up on acquiring the tarnished Internet portal. But antitrust lawyers and technology analysts outside the case don't think Ballmer & Co. has much of a prayer at stopping the deal from going through.
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs
The Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 offers vastly superior performance and a much improved design compared with last year's LifeCam NX-3000 model.
Stock futures edged narrowly higher Thursday, as investors awaited the latest look at oil and fuel supplies and weighed mixed reports from two major retailers.
Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse
Microsoft Corp. is abandoning its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable
Stock futures fell early Tuesday, ahead of an inflation reading and a slew of earnings from retailers.
Yahoo shares climbed slightly as Microsoft showed interest in a possible deal for the Internet giant's search advertising business.
Think the software giant is Yahoo's white knight? Think again. Josh Quittner argues that Microsoft doesn't need Yahoo for domination - it needs it for survival
Stock futures drifted early Monday as investors weighed a new forecast of further weakness in the U.S. economy along with Microsoft's new approach to Yahoo.
U.S. stock futures edged lower early Monday as investors eyed a light economic calendar and focused their attention on Microsoft's new approach to Yahoo.
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it is talking to Yahoo Inc. about a transaction that doesn't involve a full buyout
Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones
U.S. stock futures wavered early Tuesday as recent optimism about the economy was offset by record high crude prices.
Microsoft thought that by proposing loudly in public it could get Yahoo to agree to a marriage offer it had spurned in private.
Yahoo Inc. shares fell as much as 20% early Monday after Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $47.5 billion offer to purchase the tarnished Internet portal.
Microsoft showed its hand with the Yahoo bid and then folded. Now the software giant has to prove that in its gambit against Google there are some other cards to play.
The following is the text of a letter posted on Microsoft's website May 3, announcing it is withdrawing its bid for Yahoo Inc.
Microsoft Corp. may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc., according to a published report
Microsoft will report on its $44.6 billion attempt to take over Yahoo "in a very short order," CEO Steve Ballmer said during a scheduled town hall meeting with employees Thursday, according to a transcript obtained by a financial blog.
One thing Microsoft isn't good at creating is buzz - that's Apple expertise. But if there's anything that set the crowd talking this week at Web 2.0 Expo, one of the year's largest gatherings, it was the software giant's upcoming Live Mesh service.
Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday, posting a quarterly profit that beat expectations thanks to strong sales of server software and Xbox 360 game consoles.
Microsoft Corp. is looking ahead to a strong fiscal 2009, with or without Yahoo
Yahoo Inc. delivered first-quarter results that eclipsed analysts' modest expectations, but the performance did little to support the Internet pioneer's demands for software maker Microsoft Corp. to raise its takeover bid above $45 billion
Internet search giant Yahoo Inc. announced first-quarter sales and profits Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates but it remains unclear if that will be enough to force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid.
Microsoft Corp. has yet to convince Yahoo Inc. to agree to a friendly takeover, but the software company is already hiring lobbyists to help it convince regulators to let the deal go through
It's a Google world, and all the other players - Microsoft and Yahoo in particular - are just looking for way to stand tall in it.
Bill Miller could use a reality check.
Yahoo continued to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for the company Monday.
Markets were pointing higher as investors weigh reports of several major corporate deals in the works and awaited the start of earnings season.
Stock futures fluctuated early Friday after a key report on the U.S. labor market showed a bigger-than-expected job loss in March.
Yahoo is sending an audacious message to Microsoft: Show me more money.
When Jerry Yang answered the phone on a rainy Silicon Valley Thursday night in January and heard the hoarse voice of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer on the other end, it was simply the last in a string of disappointments the Yahoo co-founder has confronted over the past two years.
The European Union fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software information
Microsoft is at a critical moment in its history and is taking brilliant steps to remake itself. Thursday's announcement that it would open itself up to far greater interoperability with other types of software, including open source, is the latest big move. But the bigger step is its $44 billion bid for Yahoo.
Microsoft Corp. fired back at Yahoo on Monday, signaling that it wasn't backing down in its takeover attempt and calling Yahoo's decision to reject its $45 billion unsolicited bid "unfortunate."
Stocks rallied Monday, with tech, retail and commodity shares sparking a broader advance as investors set aside worries about AIG's financials and Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's proposed takeover.
Stocks were mixed at the start of trading Monday as investors responded to Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's takeover bid.
Yahoo Inc. has formally rejected Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate
Stocks slumped Monday, following last week's big rally, as investors mulled analyst downgrades of the financial sector and the continued threat of a recession.
A Microsoft-Yahoo ticket would significantly increase the Redmond, Wash.-based company's share of the online advertising you see on your PC. But it could also ramp up its presence on the smaller screen.
Stocks pulled back early Monday after last week's big rally, amid analyst downgrades of the financial sector and ongoing concerns about the strength of the economy.
U.S. stock futures were little changed Monday after the previous session's rally as investors waited to see how Microsoft efforts to buy Yahoo develop and looked ahead to a batch of economic reports due out this week.
Software giant Microsoft said Friday it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Internet search engine operator Yahoo! with a cash and stock bid worth $44.6 billion.
News that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with skepticism by many CNN.com users on Friday.
Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo on Friday, setting the stage for a deal that would shake up the competitive and lucrative market for online advertising.
Get ready for merger mania 2008!
What exactly is Microsoft trying to buy today? Well, last I checked, Yahoo operates a Web search engine and related Internet properties used by almost half a billion people around the world.
Stocks turned lower Friday morning, giving up early gains as concerns about the economy dampened enthusiasm over Microsoft's bid for Yahoo.
Software giant Microsoft said Friday it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Internet search engine operator Yahoo with a cash and stock bid worth $44.6 billion.
Stocks opened just a little higher Friday as investors tried to make sense of three major news stories: a drop in employment, Microsoft's bid for Yahoo and Exxon Mobil's record profit.
U.S. stock futures pared earlier gains Friday after the government announced a surprise decline in employment and payrolls.
Stocks tanked Friday, as investors abandoned ship after a two-session rally that followed a tough start to the new year.
Wall Street rose Friday morning, extending a two-day advance as investors welcomed Microsoft's earnings and outlook and continued to pick up stocks that were battered in the recent selloff.
U.S. stocks looked set for a third session of gains early Friday as bullish guidance from Microsoft helped allay fears about a weakening U.S. economy that had been hanging over markets.
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