Let's say you own shares of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo (not sure why you would, but if you do, might we suggest reading up on a little something called diversification). How did your investing day go on the day Microsoft and Yahoo announced their long-anticipated search deal?
Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google's dominance in online search.
"Microhoo" is finally a done deal, but will it really be able to make a dent in Google's enormous search market lead?
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday offered Internet users a first glimpse at Bing, its fresh attempt to gain ground in the online search market.
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.
The prices of real estate, stocks and many commodities continue to plummet this year.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
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.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with an impassioned endorsement of PCs and a sneak peek at the company's future Windows 7 operating system.
Microsoft has beat out Google to become the default search provider on all phones on the Verizon Wireless network.
Let's say you own shares of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo (not sure why you would, but if you do, might we suggest reading up on a little something called diversification). How did your investing day go on the day Microsoft and Yahoo announced their long-anticipated search deal?
Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google's dominance in online search.
"Microhoo" is finally a done deal, but will it really be able to make a dent in Google's enormous search market lead?
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday offered Internet users a first glimpse at Bing, its fresh attempt to gain ground in the online search market.
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.
The prices of real estate, stocks and many commodities continue to plummet this year.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
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.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with an impassioned endorsement of PCs and a sneak peek at the company's future Windows 7 operating system.
Microsoft has beat out Google to become the default search provider on all phones on the Verizon Wireless network.
It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, looking into a cubicle shared by a pair of 22-year-old men, fresh out of college. Their assignment is to sell Duncan Hines brownie mix, but they spend a lot of their time just rewriting memos. They are clearly smart - one has just graduated from Harvard, the other from Dartmouth - but that doesn't distinguish them from a slew of other new hires at P&G.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put on his game face Thursday and told investors it was imperative for the company to "ante up" in its struggling online business.
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.
As Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! hits Month 6, Josh Quittner compares the takeover attempt to a classic Mongol siege
Carl Icahn published an open letter to Yahoo shareholders Monday in which he disclosed that he has spoken several times to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer over the past week: "Several of our conversations have lasted as long as an hour," Icahn wrote, suggesting it was a real get-to-know-you sort of thing.
Steve Ballmer was sobbing. He repeatedly tried to speak and couldn't get the words out. Minutes passed as he tried to regain his composure. But the audience of 130 of Microsoft's senior leaders waited patiently, many of them crying too. They knew that the CEO was choked up because this executive retreat, held in late March at a resort north of Seattle, was the last ever for company co-founder Bill Gates, as well as for Jeff Raikes, one of the company's longest-tenured executives. "I've spent more time with these two human beings than with anyone else in my life," Ballmer finally said. "Bill and Jeff have been my North Star and kept me going. Now I'm going to count on all of you to be there for me."
The debate over the future of print media has generated some interesting sound bites of late: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told The Washington Post that ink-on-paper is dead in 10 years. Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, expressed cautious optimism at a conference sponsored by his Wall Street Journal that print will be round for "at least 20 years, and outlive me."
Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse
Way to go, Steve Ballmer. You sure showed Yahoo who's boss!
Carl Icahn is picking up where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer left off. And Yahoo is still digging in its heels.
Having raised eyebrows by successfully resisting Microsoft's advances, Yahoo still needs to boost its revenues. Here's how it may try
Google proved to be the final straw that broke Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's back.
Oh how frustrating when the mighty haven't fallen.
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.
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer said customer demand may see the company reconsider a decision to stop selling the company's Windows XP operating system in June
Yahoo continued to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for the company Monday.
Microsoft Corp. is making an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo Inc., in a move to boost its competitive edge against Google Inc. in the online services market
It's time again for DEMO, that bi-annual entrepreneurial beauty contest where hungry startups by the dozens parade their latest creations before a who's who of Silicon Valley money men. This winter's gathering is being held at the end of January in a Marriott resort a few miles south of Palm Springs, Calif. As I write this, it is expected to draw a record number of corporate bidders. "A lot of little companies are going to be picked up in some real sweet deals," says Chris Shipley, DEMO executive producer. "We're going to see a lot of activity."
Microsoft's is stepping up its quixotic, seven-year quest to become as ubiquitous on mobile phones as it is on desktops.
Last month Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's notoriously bombastic CEO, set bloggers blabbing again when he went on an anti-Google tirade that was shrill even for him.
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Once-bitter software rivals Microsoft and Novell came together Thursday to make peace in the operating system world.
At its annual financial analyst meeting, Microsoft's executives enthusiastically spoke of "a new era" in which the company will shift its focus from the PC to the Internet.
It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft's Google-fighters. So bad that one left abruptly last week, and another decided this week to switch teams.
Bill Gates is leaving his day-to-day role at Microsoft, ending an epoch in American business. And now people think CEO Steve Ballmer should go, too?
Now that Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has started his two-year goodbye from a day-to-day role at the company, it's time for CEO Steve Ballmer to set a resignation date, too.
Microsoft announced Thursday that chairman and co-founder Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company, effective July 2008, to spend more time working on his charitable foundation.
You might say Ray Ozzie is in training to become the next Bill Gates. Not to become the world's richest man, but rather the guy at Microsoft who does the big-picture strategic thinking to shape software and then helps develop it with company programmers.
When Microsoft went public in 1986, there was no 3-D videogaming, no enterprise software, and no Google.
Microsoft is weighing developing a portable device to play video games as well as music and video, according to a published report.
After Sony announced on Tuesday that the Playstation 3 won't launch until November, the Xbox 360 is in a better position to become the top gaming console, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
CEO Steve Ballmer is wrestling with Microsoft's perpetual problem: extending its near-total dominance of operating systems into the Internet era.
Kevin Johnson is an unusual specimen: a hard-headed operator with Gatesian shrewdness -- and Oprah-like personal skills. I love business, I love technology, I love customers, and I love people, he says.
Microsoft has gotten seriously behind. And this week Bill Gates finally admitted it, when he unveiled a new strategy for Microsoft to offer a wide range of software delivered over the Internet as a service, in contrast to the company's longstanding preference for software on a user's desktop.
[Sun CEO] McNealy is best known for virulent, colorful, often highly ad hominem criticisms of what he calls "Bill Gates' centrally planned economy." At a recent public appearance, he snidely referr...
A published report said that the head of Microsoft's server business could be an early front-runner to eventually run the world's No. 1 software company, although current leadership has given no indication they are anywhere close to leaving the company.
Technology stocks rose for the fifth straight session Monday, boosted again by chipmakers, while Siebel Systems and Hutchinson Technology soared on positive quarterly earnings forecasts.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, got a modest pay raise over the last year, according to a company filing.
The Microsoft memo du jour, Steve Ballmer's 4,000-word epic, delivered via e-mail to 57,000 employees in July, was hardly a thriller in the same vein as, say, Bill Gates' 1995 "We've just discovere...
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it would double its cash dividend and that its board approved a plan to buy back up to $30 billion of the company's stock over the next four years.
U.S. stock markets moved slightly higher at the start of trading Wednesday following news OPEC will soon boost oil production, a move that led to an easing in the price of crude oil.
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I know something about Microsoft no one else does: It will fail, in 2020 or 2021, although that might be a little early.
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