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Microsoft Launches Oral Sex Search Engine

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Steve Ballmer, Oral Sex, Steven-Ballmer, Andy Borowitz, Search Engines, Bing Search Engine, Microsoft, Microsoft Search Engine, Microsoft New Search Engine, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

In a related story, a new study commissioned by the University of Minnesota shows that articles with the words "oral sex" in the headline are three times as likely to be clicked on as those without.

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Best Quotes From D7 Conference: Cuban, Huffington, Bartz, Ballmer & More

AllThingsD | John Paczkowski | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Carol Bartz, Arianna Huffington, D7, D: All Things Digital, Mark Cuban, Media News

This year's D conference, as did last year's--has had its share of memorable lines. A selection of some of the better ones below: "He drew arro...

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WATCH: Steve Ballmer Unveils 'Bing' Microsoft's New Search Engine

wsj.com | JESSICA HODGSON | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, New Search Engine Microsoft, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft vs. Google, Bing, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Larry Page, New Search Engine, Business News

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Microsoft Corp. Thursday unveiled a major overhaul to its Internet search engine, as it enters a new chapter in its rivalry with Goo...

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Steve Ballmer To Be Named Media Person Of The Year At Cannes

Guardian | Mark Sweney | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Cannes International Advertising Festival, Steve Ballmer, Cannes, Media News

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, will be named media person of the year at the Cannes International Advertising festival in June. B...

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DTV Transition Delayed 90 Days: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer January 19, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Delay, Dtv, Carlos Slim, Microsoft, Mediabytes, Nyt, Academy Awards, Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, Roy Bostock, Aol, Shelly Palmer, Circuit City, Inauguration, Oscars, Cell Phone Usage, New York Times, Abc, Media News, Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, Media News
Shelly Palmer

It looks like the transition to digital television is going to be delayed for 90 days. My sources inside the Beltway tell me it's a done deal. Fear...

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Obama Supports DTV Delay: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer January 9, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Broadband, Barack Obama, Shelly Palmer, Dtv, Microsoft, Dvd, Harold Stringer, Media News, Digital Television, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Blu-Ray, Sony, Media News
Shelly Palmer

President-elect Barack Obama has joined the Consumers Union in asking congress to delay the digital television transition. Obama noted "inadequate f...

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Intel Q4 Revenue Down 23%: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer January 8, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Msnbc, Speed the Plow, Windows 7, Oprah, Dtv, Microsoft, Fat, Digital Television, Mediabytes, Intel, Time Warner, Consumers Union, Aol, Shelly Palmer, Media News, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Intel's revenue for the fourth quarter fell 23% over last year. Intel had warned investors that revenue for the fourth quarter would be down, howe...

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Tech Billionaires Losing Tons In Financial Crisis

Silicon Alley Insider | Rachel King | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Economy, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Billionaires, Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Wealth, Finance, Financial Crisis, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jerry Yang, Business News

The tech industry has been brimming with billionaires over the last decade, especially since the birth of Web 2.0. But these are dark times, and the r...

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Moonves Says "TV Model Ain't Broken": MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 11, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Verizon, Strike, Zune, Microsoft, Les Moonves, Wimax, Lte, Jeff Zucker, Mediabytes, Cbs, Simon Baker, Ces, Steve Ballmer, Sag, Shelly Palmer, Dick Lynch, Tv Model, Phone, Media News, The Mentalist, Nbc, Media News
Shelly Palmer

In reaction to Jeff Zucker's comment that the old TV business is dying, CBS exec Les Moonves is adamant that "the model ain't broken. The model work...

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Steve Ballmer Is Carnac The Magnificent

Ron Galloway | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Apple Iphone, Apple, Microsoft, USA Today, Stock Prices, Mac OSX, Macs, Business News
Ron Galloway

Ten years ago Microsoft stock was $33/share. Today it's $19. That's a return to shareholders of -40%. Ten years ago Apple stock was $8. Today it's $91. That's a return, um, higher than -40%.

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Redstone Assures Investors, Can Cover $1.6B Debt: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 14, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Local Tv News, Twitter, Voice Recognition, Microsoft, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Cbs, Steve Ballmer, Iphone, Windows Live, Application, Shelly Palmer, Social Networks, Media News, Fox, Viacom, Nbc, Redmond, Flickr, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Sumner Redstone repeated his promise that he will not sell anymore stock in either CBS or Viacom. Redstone assured investors he has more than enough...

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Microsoft Still Not Interested in Acquiring Yahoo: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 7, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Verizon, Motorola, Sergey Brin, Lg, Jerry Yang, Susan Lucci, Microsoft, Samsung, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Dancing With the Stars, Steve Ballmer, Shelly Palmer, Bill Gates, Craigslist, All My Children, Media News, Larry Page, White Space, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Steve Ballmer noted that Microsoft is not interested in acquiring Yahoo. Ballmer is quoted as saying "We made an offer, we made another offer.. We ...

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Ballmer Nixes Yahoo Deal Revival: "We've Moved On"

Alley Insider | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Technology, Jerry Yang, Yahoo, Business News

Steve Ballmer dismisses the idea of a Yahoo acquisition...but leaves open the possibility of a search partnership: "We made an offer, we made another...

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Microsoft Not Interested In Acquiring Yahoo!

Wired | John C Abell | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Internet Companies, Mergers, Business News

Hours after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tantalized investors with the possibility of putting a deal with Yahoo back on the tracks, the company issued ...

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David Einhorn, Famed Hedge Fund Manager, Done With Microsoft, Ballmer

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Greenlight Capital, Lehman Brothers, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Wall St Crisis, Yahoo, Microsoft, David Einhorn, Steve Ballmer, Finance, Economy, Personal Finance, Business News

Famed hedge-fund manager David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital), the man who shorted Lehman Brothers, has been clobbered along with other Wall Street star...

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Steve Ballmer Pictures And Video: A Visual Guide To The Microsoft CEO

Dave Burdick | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Slideshow, Computers, Microsoft, Monkeyboy, Personal Computers, Business News
Dave Burdick

Why don't people recognize a really rich, important, wacky guy in charge of a huge, modern corporation, and who can be counted on to take a great, weird photograph?

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Another Microsoft Reorganization, Circling The Wagons 'Round Windows

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Windows, Microsoft, Kevin Johnson, Business News

The head of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Business (which includes the online business), Kevin Johnson, is headed to Juniper Networks. Microsoft...

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Yahoo Gains Support Of Major Shareholder In Proxy Fight

BusinessWeek | Rob Hof | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Bill Miller, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yahoo Buyout, Carl Icahn, Legg Mason, Legg Mason Capital Management, Jerry Yang, Yahoo Shareholders, Business News

With its annual meeting looming in just two weeks, Yahoo is ratcheting up its defense against Carl Icahn's proxy fight with an energy critics wish the...

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Microsoft's Real Problem: Steve Jobs

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, PC Market, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Pc Sales, Google, Microsoft Business Problems, Business News

As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost--Internet media--its shareholder...

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Yahoo, At Long Last, Will Pay Shareholders To Love It

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Aol, Jerry Yang, Yahoo!, Business News

Useful thought by Team Yahoo: Why trust the WSJ, the NYT CNBC or anybody else when you can just go directly to shareholders? Hence this memo released ...

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Yahoo, Microsoft Mull Buying AOL: Report

Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Sale, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner, Aol, AOL Merger, Jerry Yang, Business News

Following our report that a Time Warner team is talking to Microsoft about an AOL deal, a source tells Reuters that TWX is talking to Jerry Yang and c...

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Microsoft Wants To Deal With New Yahoo Board, Yahoo Doesn't Want A New Board

Huffington Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Microsoft, Yahoo Buyout, Carl Icahn, Yahoo Board, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Yahoo Shareholders, Jerry Yang, Business News

Carl Icahn's saber just got louder. The Associated Press reports that Microsoft has indicated that it would be interested in negotiating a deal with Y...

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Bill Gates' Last Day At Microsoft: Bids Steve Ballmer Farewell In Tears

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Bill Gates Last Day, Bill Gates Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Steve Ballmer Bill Gates, Business News

REDMOND, Wash. — On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and nei...

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Bill Gates Retires Today, Sort Of

New York Times | Steve Lohr | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Retirement, Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates Retires, Billionaires, Business News

Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world's richest philanthropy, the Bill and Me...

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When Jobs And Gates Go, What Will The Tech World Look Like?

Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, New Apple CEO, Tony Fadell, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Jonathan Ive, Apple CEO, Aapl, Bill Gates, Timothy D. Cook, Philip W. Schiller, Apple, Ron Johnson, Next Apple CEO, Scott Forstall, Billionaires, Business News

Fortune is having a nice old time peering into the crystal ball lately. First there was the lengthy gaze into Bill Gates' future after retiring from h...

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