Tagged: Steve Ballmer
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The US$3.3trn cloud computing opportunity – Steve Ballmer News
05.03.2010 Technology is the gift that keeps on giving and cloud computing is one of those gifts, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last night told students at the University of Washington as he...Tags: Cloud Computing, Steve Ballmer, -
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com for alleged patent infringement News
19.05.2010 Software giant Microsoft is suing software-as-a-service CRM player Salesforce.com for allegedly infringing nine of its patents in what could be seen a classic struggle between... -
Global software piracy hit US$51bn last year News
11.05.2010 The rate of software piracy climbed to 43pc in 2009, up 2pc on the previous year, according to the Business Software Alliance. The culprit: expanding PC sales in emerging markets.Tags: Steve Ballmer, Illegal Software, -
‘Bach’ to the future as Ballmer heads Microsoft consumer division News
26.05.2010 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the new head of the technology giant's powerful Entertainment & Devices division after its two top senior executives Robbie Bach – once tipped for...Categories: Business, Digital Media, Hardware, Leadership & Management, Software, Mobility, Multimedia -
Top contenders to the Apple iPad News
25.02.2010 There is no doubt that Steve Jobs’ iPad is the most hotly anticipated tablet computing device ever, but rein in the Apple hype machine and you will find that there are several...Categories: Digital Life -
EU/US approval for Microsoft/Yahoo! alliance News
19.02.2010 Both the European Commission and the US authorities have approved Microsoft’s plans to buy the internet search and search advertising businesses of Yahoo!Categories: Business -
Microsoft debuts Windows Phone 7 Series News
15.02.2010 It’s one of the biggest announcements out of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Steve Ballmer didn’t disappoint as he talked about the brand new re-imagined...Categories: Comms -
Microsoft and HP in new cloud-computing ‘mega alliance’ News
14.01.2010 Two of the world’s biggest technology companies, Microsoft and HP, have entered into a cloud-computing alliance that will see both players increase their cloud investment... -
HP/Microsoft Slate: the lowdown News
08.01.2010 So what do we know about the forthcoming slate device from HP, as debuted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the CES earlier this week?Categories: Digital Life -
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s best-selling OS yet, Ballmer says News
23.11.2009 Windows 7 has achieved record sales levels – more than double those of previous operating system (OS) releases – a triumphant Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a shareholders’... -
Global IT industry to spearhead economic recovery with 5.8 million new jobs News
07.10.2009 The IT industry will create 5.8 million new jobs and more than 75,000 new businesses over the next four years, according to Microsoft and IDC - three times the rate of... -
Microsoft and Yahoo! sign landmark deal News
29.07.2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft have announced their much anticipated agreement to work together on internet search and advertising, in a move to challenge Google’s dominance in this area. -
Microsoft ‘very close’ to buying Yahoo!’s search business News
17.07.2009 Microsoft is believed to be in the final stages of negotiations around finally buying Yahoo!’s search business, in a move that will give its search foray with Bing a little...Categories: Business -
New Xbox platform coming in 2010 News
19.06.2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed last night that the software giant will unveil a new Xbox platform in 2010 that will come with a “natural interface” and built-in camera...Categories: Digital Life, New Media -
Finding the bling in ‘Bing.com’ – Microsoft’s decision engine News
29.05.2009 Microsoft last night began to take the wraps off its new search engine Bing.com, which it has said will make searching far more efficient and will help people arrive at better... -
Yahoo! and Microsoft CEOs back in internet strategy talks News
13.04.2009 Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are understood to be holding formal talks – but not about an acquisition. Rather, search ads and content deals are in the... -
Yahoo! restructure revealed – ‘the world is flat and so are we’ News
27.02.2009 New Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz last night unveiled her restructuring plan for the company designed to make the internet giant leaner, meaner … and flatter. -
Yahoo! CFO steps down News
26.02.2009 The chief financial officer of troubled internet portal giant Yahoo! Blake Jorgensen is leaving the company ahead of an expected reshuffle.Categories: Business -
Yahoo! reshuffle expected this week News
22.02.2009 The new CEO at Yahoo! Carol Bartz is expected to instigate significant management changes as early as this Wednesday, according to reports. -
Microsoft to axe 5,000 workers worldwide News
22.01.2009 Ireland got off lightly, with just 20 job cuts at Microsoft’s operation here, as the world’s biggest software player took the decision to cut 5,000 jobs after a slow second...Categories:Tags: Steve Ballmer,