Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a holiday quarter when it seems pretty clear other gadgets dominated shopping lists.

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q410	Net Inc. vs Q410
Microsoft	Release		5%	Flat

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) used its hallmark spot on the CES 2012 schedule to prove just how pointless it is to put on a million-dollar keynote address in the modern media era when you have nothing to say, reiterating its performance over 2011, talking up Windows 8, and hiring Ryan Seacrest…

MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

The anticipation and speculation surrounding what could be the next product on the cards for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)—Apple TV—raises some questions about how, and if, the TV industry will get as disrupted by Apple as the mobile world did with the introduction of the iPhone.

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream shows purchased from iTunes via Apple’s iCloud. Now it looks as if that service is becoming available internationally.

Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity that has kicked off the holiday shopping season seems to be indicating an altogether different sentiment from consumers.

The PC business is not the most dynamic place to be these days, but fortunately for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) it has a growing presence in the gaming and entertainment markets to offset slow growth in the PC market. Microsoft met expectations for profit and exceeded them for revenue as a…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q310	Net Inc. vs Q310
Microsoft	Release		7%	6%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 million in funding: it’s officially expanding its 2,300 non-fiction film library to include dramatic, fictional independent features. The second change can be called the “Snag Everywhere” plan, which…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) topped analyst estimates for both revenue and profit during its fourth fiscal quarter, perhaps calming fears that a PC market slowdown had taken its toll on the PC software giant. But revenue from its Windows division actually fell slightly amid tepid PC industry growth that was not…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q410	Net Inc. vs Q410
Microsoft	Release		8%	30%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

One of the fathers of two important Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) projects that eventually met completely different fates is moving on. Otto Berkes, who was partially responsible for both the Xbox and the stillborn Ultra Mobile PC, has decided to leave the company.

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), today said his company first decided to buy Skype when the two were in discussions on an advertising deal (advertising is one way Skype has hoped to make more money off those millions of people who steadfastly refuse to take up its…

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…

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…

In one swift move, HTC may have just diffused what could have become yet another legal bomb: the handset maker yesterday entered into a long-term licensing agreement and strategic alliance with Intellectual Ventures, an IP patent house run by Microsoft’s former CTO, Nathan Myhrvold, and chief architect, Edward Jung. The…

As price competition continues to put pressure on mobile operators, O2 has come up with a new customer retention strategy: give them a game instead of a phone.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is turning to its existing executive ranks to fill the vacancies left by the departures of entertainment and devices president Robbie Bach and business division president Stephen Elop. The company is promoting three executives to the roles of president: Andy Lees, who has been SVP of Microsoft’s…

Research In Motion has acquired some of the assets of DataViz, a 26-year-old company that has focused on bringing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) products, like Office, to several mobile platforms, including BlackBerry. In a short statement today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) confirmed the purchase and that it has hired the majority of…