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Bill and Ballmer Have Lingering Beef Over Microsoft's Hardware Push
Nov 8, 2016Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are arguably the two most iconic figures in the history of Microsoft. Now it appears the former CEOs aren’t on great terms. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Ballmer said he and Gates have ...
Tags: Lingering Beef, Microsoft
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Closed on His Acquisition of The Los Angeles Clippers
Aug 15, 2014Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer closed on his acquisition of the Los Angeles Clippers Tuesday from The Sterling Family Trust. The NBA Board of Governors previously approved the $2 billion sale, but a California court had to rule on ...
Tags: Ballmer, Clippers, Sporting Goods
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Microsoft Will Close The $7.2 Billion Acquisition of Nokia's Handset Business on Friday
Apr 23, 2014Microsoft today said that it will close the $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business on Friday, about eight months after revealing the deal. Microsoft announced the acquisition of Nokia's devices arm?- and an associated patent ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, Nokia
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Microsoft Has Finally Concluded Its Protracted Search and Chosen Its New CEO
Feb 13, 2014Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO:Satya Nadella,who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end server ...
Tags: Microsoft, computer, Windows Phone, Microsoft gaming
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The US-Based Technology Titan Reported Net Income of $6.56 Billion on Revenue
Jan 23, 2014Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter the company said Thursday, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong demand for Xbox consoles, Surface tablets and Internet "cloud" services. The US-based technology ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
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Tablet Consumers Have Taken as Big a Bite out of Mac Growth
Jan 15, 2014Tablet consumers have taken as big a bite out of Mac growth as they have out of personal computers in general, showing that Apple is not immune to the seismic shift it triggered with the iPad. During the 12 months preceding 30th September ...
Tags: Apple's Mac, Tablet Cannibal Pot
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Steve Ballmer Is Nearly $3.2 Billion Richer Than He Was a Year Ago
Jan 5, 2014Steve Ballmer, still Microsoft CEO , is nearly $3.2 billion richer than he was a year ago, his good fortune driven by a 34.5% increase in Microsoft's share price during 2013. Ballmer, who as of September 2013 owned more than 333 million ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
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What Were The Hits of 2013, and What Will This Year Hold?
Jan 3, 2014With Microsoft losing its controversial CEO, Apple launching new iPads and iPhones and the rise of wearable devices all making headlines, it's been another huge year for technology. That's before you look at the gobbling up of Nokia, ...
Tags: wearable devices, technology, tablet, tech prediction
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Antitrust Approved Microsoft's $7bn Acquisition of Nokia's Mobile Phone Business
Dec 4, 2013Antitrust regulators in the US have approved Microsoft's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. The deal, announced in September, sees Microsoft take ownership of Nokia's Devices and Services business, which ...
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Has Used The Company's Annual Shareholder Meeting
Nov 27, 2013Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has used the company's annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington to highlight the "complex" requirements that need to be addressed as the firm attempts to find a new CEO for only the second time in its ...
Tags: Bill Gates, awaiting, Microsoft, CEO
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Steve Ballmer's Audacious Vision Will Not Be Achieved Without Digital Bloodshed
Nov 27, 2013Steve Ballmer’s audacious vision of “One Microsoft, all the time,” delivering a single, seamless user experience across a wide range of devices, will not be achieved without digital bloodshed. Windows will die, a ...
Tags: Larson-Green, Microsoft, Windows, platform
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More Than 99 Percent of Nokia's Shareholders Have Voted to Approve Microsoft's Acquisition
Nov 25, 2013More than 99 percent of Nokia’s shareholders have voted to approve Microsoft’s acquisition of the Finnish company’s Devices & Services business. Nokia entered into an agreement to sell “substantially all” ...
Tags: Nokia, Smartphones, Microsoft
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Microsoft Has Drawn up a Shortlist of Five People to Replace Steve Ballmer as CEO
Nov 7, 2013Software giant Microsoft has drawn up a shortlist of five people to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft - and the shortlist includes former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Ford Motor Company's highly rated CEO Alan Mulally, according to ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products
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Microsoft "Will Be Dead and Gone" in Just a Few Years
Oct 28, 2013Ex-BT CTO and futurist Peter Cochrane believes Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia could be "like bolting two sinking ships together" as he urged the company to rethink its "gaudy and horrible" branding strategies. Following up his Computing ...
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Microsoft Needs to Work on Its Branding Issues
Oct 1, 2013While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
Tags: Computer Products, software