Jun 18, 2011 1:08 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has received a quick approval from the Department of Justice Federal Trade Commission for its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype, first announced in May. Meanwhile, Skype is streamlining its executive team, with some key people getting dismissed ahead of a final completion of the deal.
Posted In: Apps, Legal, Regulatory, FTC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Hutchison Whampoa, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Verizon, federal trade commission, steve ballmer, tony bates
May 28, 2011 5:00 AM
It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Lou Gerstner got an elephant to dance. Now Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), one of the companies that forced IBM to confront its problems, finds itself in need of a new dance partner who understands the realities of 21st-century computing. Steve Ballmer is not that…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Search, Companies, Microsoft, Bing, Windows Phone, steve ballmer
May 10, 2011 1:30 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and (a very quiet) soon-to-be Microsoft Skype division president Tony Bates went on CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) this morning to defend the rationale of the $8.5 billion acquisition. The bottom line: Microsoft believes its many products—from Hotmail to Xbox—can all benefit from tie-ins to the…
Posted In: Advertising, Technologies / Formats, VOIP, Companies, Microsoft, skype, steve ballmer
Feb 14, 2011 10:43 AM
In Steve Ballmer’s keynote today, his first ever at Mobile World Congress, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said that the new version of Windows Phone 7 will feature multitasking, a top-of-the-range mobile web browser and integration with Microsoft’s buzziest product of the moment: Xbox Kinect: in short, everything that…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Microsoft, Windows Phone, xBox, Nokia, internet explorer, stephen elop, steve ballmer
Oct 11, 2010 9:32 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer said the words “mine” and “my” about two dozen times in two minutes when he took the stage this morning to officially unveil the company’s Windows 7 Phone at a press conference in New York. The smartphone operating system was built with two themes…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, AT&T, HTC, LG, Microsoft, steve ballmer
Jul 29, 2009 7:51 AM
Updated: The 18-month Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) saga finally enters a productive phase (regulators willing) with a 10-year global search and advertising sales pact between the two companies. The deal, much of which has already been reported, was announced formally before U.S. markets opened. Yahoo estimates that the deal will improve…
Posted In: Advertising, Search, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, bing, carol bartz, steve ballmer
Oct 2, 2008 5:02 AM
More on that search R&D centre Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in June told advertisers it would build in Europe... CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured in London yesterday) fronted the launch in Paris this morning for a “Search Technology Centre” (STC), which will actually be split between three centres of excellence in Paris,…
Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Countries, Europe, France, steve ballmer
May 21, 2008 3:11 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will be hoping to avoid the kind of reception he received in Budapest, as he continues a whirlwind tour of central and eastern Europe. Ballmer was addressing Hungarian students on Monday when one rose from his lecture theatre chair and pelted him with eggs.…
Posted In: Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, Russia, steve ballmer
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