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Xbox is an essential piece of the new Microsoft pie, says departing CEO Steve...
In his final speech as CEO at a Microsoft shareholder meeting, outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer fired a shot across the bow of those who are rumored to be thinking of splitting the company into component...
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Chromebook sales surge during holidays — raising big questions for Microsoft
Chromebooks, the minimalist laptops powered by Google’s browser-based Chrome operating system, exploded onto the market this year and appear to be finishing 2013 on a particularly strong note....
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VCs 'haven't done sh*t' and more choice techie quotes from 2013
As 2013 recedes in the rearview, we’d like to take one more look back at our favorite blowhards, loudmouths, and prognosticators to highlight some of the most quotable moments of the year....
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Microsoft appoints Satya Nadella as its new CEO
Microsoft announced this morning that Satya Nadella will serve as its third chief executive. Various reports over the past week pegged Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud and enterprise head, as the...
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Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer react to Microsoft’s new CEO (videos)
Nearly everyone has something to say about new Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, including the company’s past leaders. Former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each cut a short video...
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The new Microsoft: How Satya Nadella will transform the company
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud head and its new CEO, learned a lot about leadership playing cricket in Hyderabad, India. One incident has stuck with him his entire career, he told Indian daily...
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Nadella: Microsoft must innovate in a mobile-first, cloud-first world
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud head and its new CEO, refuses to get bogged down in the company’s history or traditions. He’s too busy looking forward. “This business of ours is exciting...
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Ballmer: If I could ‘redo the last 10 years,’ Microsoft wouldn’t be behind on...
“We would have a stronger position in the phone market today if I could redo the last 10 years.” — Steve Ballmer Former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer spoke candidly at the Saïd Business School in...
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer resigns from the company's board of directors
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s former chief executive, is leaving Microsoft’s board, according to a letter he sent to his successor, Satya Nadella. Microsoft posted the letter on its website earlier today....
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer owns 4% of Twitter
Former Microsoft chief executive and owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers Steve Ballmer recently took a 4 percent stake in Twitter, according to tweets posted late last night. He also praised the...
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Steve Ballmer on life after Microsoft
Steve Ballmer has gone from being the biggest Microsoft cheerleader to the world’s most enthusiastic owner of a sports team. He retired from Microsoft in 2014, but then he became the owner of the LA...
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The DeanBeat: Big money and the super-rich have descended on esports
The 4,000 or so investors and VIPs who attended the Milken Global Conference this week heard sessions about luxury brands, avoiding war in North Korea, investing in China, cryptocurrency and...
View ArticleZuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Page, and Brin (but no women) among world’s top 10...
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are not just engines of technological innovation in America — they’re also the path to Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, which was just updated. But there is a...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: Microsoft goes crazy with its appointment of new gaming chief
It could quite possibly be the dumbest move Microsoft has ever made in games. Or the smartest. Yesterday, Microsoft appointed Julie Larson-Green, head of the Windows business, to be in charge of...
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Why Lorne Lanning went from triple-A games to indie — and loudly loves it...
Above: Oddworld: Stranger’s WrathImage Credit: Oddworld Disclosure: The organizers of Siggraph paid part of my expenses to Anaheim, Calif. Our coverage remains objective. Lorne Lanning, the founder of...
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The core of Apple's problem is Tim Cook, Scoble says (interview)
Tech evangelist Robert Scoble is a lot of things to a lot of people. The prolific blogger, tweeter, and speaker has over half a million friends on Facebook, is in a massive 4.1 million circles on...
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What Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did for Xbox — and what his retirement means...
Steve Ballmer’s decision to retire as CEO of Microsoft in the next year will have a big impact on the future of the Xbox gaming console, as he has played a key role in all of the major decisions about...
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Chromebook sales surge during holidays — raising big questions for Microsoft
Chromebooks, the minimalist laptops powered by Google’s browser-based Chrome operating system, exploded onto the market this year and appear to be finishing 2013 on a particularly strong note....
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Microsoft needs an anti-Ballmer — but it won't get one
No matter how much we want to see someone shake things up at Microsoft, there’s little chance that would happen. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced this morning that he would be retiring...
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Every CEO should celebrate developers as much as Ballmer did
“Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!” Who doesn’t know the Ballmer cheer? Whether you were there in person or saw the YouTube remix, you remember the hollering, the sweating, the clapping,...
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