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
Jan 6, 2011 12:22 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may have cracked the mobile code with its new Windows Phone 7 OS but it’s not quite there when it comes to actual consumer sales. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t say that specifically in his traditional pre-CES keynote, of course. After some announcements about pending updates, including…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Events, CES, Companies, AP, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, RIM, BlackBerry, liz sloan, steve ballmer
Jan 5, 2011 9:45 PM
Steve Ballmer started off his Consumer Electronics Show keynote Wednesday by running down Microsoft’s product debuts in 2010, including Windows Phone 7 and Kinect, and promising a preview of what Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has coming next. Read on for a summary of Microsoft’s announcements regarding Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and…
Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Events, CES, Companies, Microsoft, Bing, MSN, Windows Phone, xBox, 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, 2010 4:02 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, saying that “a lot of the issues we see in our consumer businesses are very much on the minds of the shareholders.” That’s an understatement, considering that the lackluster…
Posted In: Money, Companies, Microsoft, Bing, MSN, MSNBC, steve ballmer
Jun 4, 2010 11:30 AM
If you don’t like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), odds are you won’t find much to like when Steve Ballmer talks. If you like Microsoft, you probably still won’t and that’s a shame. The Microsoft CEO and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie opened the last day of D8. The latter owned the…
Posted In: Mobile, Events, D Conference, Companies, 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
Jan 7, 2009 9:30 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has finalized a mutli-million deal with Verizon Wireless for the right to provide the country’s largest carrier with portal, local, Internet search and mobile advertising services. The announcement is expected to take place during Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote at CES tonight, starting at 6:30 p.m., although…
Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, AT&T, Google, Microsoft, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Yahoo, steve ballmer
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