The head of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Business (which includes the online business), Kevin Johnson, is headed to Juniper Networks. Microsoft...
BusinessWeek | Rob Hof | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business
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...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
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...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
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 ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
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...
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
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...
New York Times | Steve Lohr | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
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...
Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...
Washington Post | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business
In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views ...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
I've attended all six D: All Things Digital conferences. Each year, the mood's different. If this year's conference is a metaphor, the economy was very much on the minds of the speakers.
Philip G. Baker | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
What did Microsoft's presentation have to do with an operating system that helps us in business and fixes all the problems of Microsoft Vista? Absolutely nothing.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
In what universe is throwing an egg not criminal behavior? If you've been fortunate enough not to have been beaned with an egg of late, it's not a risk-free experience.
Bloomberg | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business
Microsoft Corp.'s decision to drop its pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. increases the pressure on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losin...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
Steve Ballmer held a Town Hall conference call with Microsoft (MSFT) employees today--reported minute-by-minute by our Vas Sridharan. Not surprisingl...
AFP | Glenn Chapman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business
A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Sa...
AP | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business
MILAN, Italy — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Wednesday that his company's $44 billion offer for Yahoo Inc. reflects Yahoo's...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Microsoft (MSFT) responds to Yahoo's earnings by raising the ante again in one last-ditch, trans-Atlantic attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) to cave. Speakin...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
Yahoo's last-ditch effort to fend off Microsoft's takeover bid: A deal to test Google's (GOOG) ads on some of its search pages. From the release: Yah...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
A social network? Us? Could that be? Every day we have as serious a discussion of current business-related events as the facts warrant!
Business Week | Catherina Holahan | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
Yahoo's resistance to a takeover by Microsoft looks foolhardy to some investors and Wall Street analysts. But the push-back may prove effective in the...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business
I personally have been part of a merger/acquisition scenario more times than I care to contemplate. It's like a flu. You feel it coming on. Then you either get it or you don't.
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business
In corporate press-release wars like this, it is imperative to read between the lines. More important that what Yahoo (YHOO) said in its Microsoft (MS...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business