
Microsoft’s CEO Dilemma: Internal Candidate, Mobile Maven Or Turnaround King
Reuters the list of Microsoft CEO candidates to succeed Steve Ballmer is down to a short list of four or five. Among them are current...

Microsoft Joins the Anti-Cookie Movement, Working On Its Own Replacement
Microsoft is apparently developing technology that would run on its own devices and platforms including Windows desktops, tablets and...

Microsoft Wins 13 Bing-Related Domains From Squatter
In a decision announced last week, Microsoft won 13 domains from a cybersquatter based in Taiwan. It was a quick case. Microsoft...

Forecast: Mobile Devices To Eclipse PCs In Q4 This Year
latest devices forecast arguing that tablets will overtake PC shipments (desktop + laptops) in Q4 of this year. The firm said that for...

Post BBQ News: Microsoft Buys Most Of Nokia For $7.2 Billion
Microsoft had acquired Nokia’s hardware business for roughly $5 billion and would spend another roughly $2 billion to license the Finnish...

Microsoft CEO Ballmer To Retire Next Year, Market Likes The News
This morning, Microsoft announced that Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. Ballmer has been CEO of the Redmond, WA-based company...

BlackBerry Up For Sale, New iPhones To Go On Sale
statement: BlackBerry Limited, a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors...

Android Tablet Shipments Soar, Usage Hasn’t Shown Up Yet
estimates for tablets — which are supposed to exceed PC sales by the end of this year on a global basis. It’s now a critical market...

Microsoft Also Misses On $19.9 Billion In Quarterly Revenue
missing bullish revenue estimates. Microsoft also did so when it reported fiscal quarter and full-year earnings today. Redmond’s overall...

Major Ad Networks Sign Anti-Piracy Best Practices Aimed To Starve Piracy Sites Of Ad Revenues
Pressure has been mounting on Google, in particular, and the online ad network industry in general to combat online counterfeiting and...

The Microsoft Reorg Versus Google: Lots Of Engineering, No Ads, Social Or Search Execs
One Microsoft,” with the company being organized by “function” rather than around products. How’s that compare to one of Microsoft’s...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview Includes New Start Button, Enhanced Search, Redesigned App Store &
Windows 8, Microsoft launched a pre-release of Windows 8.1 today at the Microsoft Build Developers Conference in San Francisco. The...

Survey: Windows Phone Gaining At Android’s Expense
Kantar argues that Windows Phones “have begun to capture consumers from across the competitor set.” According to the research unit of...

Microsoft, Google To Build New Windows Phone YouTube App Together
The two companies issued a statement today, two days after the deadline that Google had given Microsoft to remove the previous app from...

Microsoft Slams Google In Nasty, Internal Parody Of Chrome Ad
It’s a fake Chrome ad that’s part of Microsoft’s ongoing “Scroogled” campaign against Google, but it was supposed to remain internal. It...

Microsoft To YouTube: Where’s That Interoperability Larry Page Was Talking About?
As The Verge reported today, Google sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Microsoft remove the YouTube app from its...

Microsoft Calls On “SNL” Alum Schneider To Bash Google Docs
In a new series of ads, Microsoft is trying to cast doubt on the reliability and productivity of Google Docs. The spots featuring...

Why Yahoo Will Never Reach The “Revenue Per Search” That Microsoft Promised
Microsoft has effectively renewed its search vows with Yahoo a second time, pledging once again that Yahoo will indeed earn a high...

Microsoft Continues Rebranding Efforts With New Looks For Bing, Skype & Xbox
Design Day event on April 17, creative directors from Wolff Olins played a video that revealed what appears to be a new Bing logo. “Other...
























