Tagged: Steve Ballmer & News
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey named ‘Media Person of the Year’ at Cannes News
15.05.2012 Twitter CEO and chairman Jack Dorsey has been named the Cannes Lions ‘Media Person of the Year'. Previous recipients of the award include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Microsoft sees revenue rise by 6pc to US$17.41bn News
20.04.2012 Microsoft saw its revenue increase by 6pc since last year in the quarter ending 31 March, reaching US$17.41bn. Its operating income was up 12pc from the same period last year.Categories: Software, Servers, Hardware, Financial Results, Financial, Digital Business, Consumer TechTags: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows, Earnings, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Office, Windows Live, Xbox, Revenue, Microsoft -
Apple reacts to Greenpeace over ‘dirty energy’ claims News
19.04.2012 Apple has defended itself against Greenpeace claims that it uses “dirty energy” to power up its data centres and that its new data centre in Maiden, North Carolina would use 100...Categories: Search Engines, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Energy, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps, WebTags: Cloud Computing, Apple, Tim Cook, data centre, US, Amazon, Green IT, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, -
Actors who could play tech leaders News
02.04.2012 Ashton Kutcher is doing it. Noah Wyle has done it. Jesse Eisenberg has done it, and received an Academy Award nomination. -
Bill Gates is not returning as CEO of Microsoft News
15.12.2011 Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates denied he would return to lead the tech company again, burying rumours which emerged this month. -
Microsoft's management shuffle of Windows Phone top brass News
13.12.2011 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has replaced the head of its Windows Phone business Andy Lees with corporate vice-president Terry Myerson, who will now lead the division. -
Silicon Republic - Onwards and upwards News
01.11.2011 Irish online technology news publisher Silicon Republic has secured a significant investment from international venture capital firm SOSventures. Siliconrepublic.com editor John...Categories: Social Media, R&D, Multimedia, Media, Investments, Internet, Green Computing, Funding, Financial, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, CIOTags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Liao, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, News, Venture Capital, Facebook, Funding, Technology -
Microsoft closes Skype acquisition News
14.10.2011 Tech giant Microsoft has closed its US$8.5bn acquisition of internet telephony provider Skype, Microsoft has announced. Skype will function as a new business division within... -
Remembering Steve News
06.10.2011 Tech leaders, politicians and the public are paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs after news of his death broke last night after his long battle with illnesses.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Leadership & Management, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
The sky is the limit with cloud News
17.10.2011 We are now of the generation where software apps outsell music, even movies. What’s making this possible? It’s the cloud. So what will this mean for our future working lives? -
Cloud wars: Windows 8 OS cues fight for planet of the apps News
22.09.2011 When Microsoft last week took the wraps off its next new operating system Windows 8 at the massive BUILD developers conference in California, some 500,000 versions were... -
Office meets the cloud as Office 365 gets global launch News
28.06.2011 Microsoft’s Office in the cloud is really as much about unified communications as it is about cloud computing when you consider the various telecoms companies that are already...Categories: Unified Communications, Networking & Telecoms, IT Management, Communications, Cloud, CIO, AppsTags: Steve Ballmer, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, UPC, O2, Vodafone, Unified Comms, Cloud Computing, Office 365 -
Microsoft confirms Skype acquisition News
10.05.2011 Microsoft has confirmed it will acquire Skype for US$8.5bn in cash, stretching Skype’s support to services such as Xbox, Kinect, Windows Phone, Outlook and Lync.Tags: Skype, Microsoft, deals, Steve Ballmer, Acquisitions, Kinect, Outlook, Xbox, Windows Phone, Lync, -
BlackBerry to team up with Bing, coming to Meteor prepay customers News
03.05.2011 Microsoft and RIM have teamed up to make Bing the default maps and search option on BlackBerry devices. -
Microsoft and Toyota invest 1bn yen on next-generation Telematics News
07.04.2011 Microsoft and Toyota are investing 1bn yen in Toyota Media Service Co., to build a global platform for TMC’s next-generation telematics services using the Windows Azure... -
Microsoft pays Nokia US$1bn in ‘hello money’ for alliance News
08.03.2011 Microsoft is understood to be paying Nokia more than US$1bn to promote and develop Windows Phone 7-based handsets as part of their strategic alliance. In turn, Nokia will pay...Tags: Nokia, Microsoft, Smartphones, Motorola, RIM, Samsung, Windows Phone 7 , Symbian, Google, Android, Palm, Steve Ballmer -
Nokia to move to Windows Phone, restructures company News
11.02.2011 Nokia outlined its new strategic direction, including taking on Windows Phone as its primary OS, a major organisational restructure and a focus on getting developing growth...Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Nokia, Symbian, Windows Phone 7 , Windows Phone, Smartphone, Mobile, Internet -
Microsoft reveals ‘connected tissue’ for future of gaming News
08.01.2011 LAS VEGAS - No matter where you went on the Microsoft stand at CES very near you there was always a console, a mobile phone and a big screen television. The company now wants...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech -
Tech CEOs named as top wealth creators in US News
21.12.2010 Priceline.com’s Jeffrey Boyd, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos have been named No 1, No 4 and No 5 top wealth creators respectively in the US. -
Microsoft to reveal new Windows 8 slate devices at CES News
14.12.2010 At next month’s Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to take the wraps off a number of new Windows-powered tablet computers built by...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Operating Systems, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers