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Steve Ballmer just made $625 million by firing himself
Since Steve Ballmer’s announcement this morning that he’s stepping down as CEO of Microsoft in the next 12 months, the company’s stock has popped more than 8%. Ballmer is Microsoft’s second-largest individual shareholder, with 333,252,990 shares, which means his $16 billion net worth just appreciated $625 million.
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Microsoft strikes deal with ValueAct Capital
San Francisco investment firm takes more active role as CEO Steve Ballmer plans retirement.
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Microsoft and Google may sue US government
Tech giants demand rights to speak more freely on US government's data requests in wake of revelations by Snowden.
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Can Microsoft Be Saved? Maybe Not
Is Microsoft going the way of the Soviet Union? Vivek Wadhwa, vice president for academics and innovation at Singularity University, director of research at Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, and a fellow at Stanford Law School, thinks so.
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Yes, Microsoft Could Have Invented the iPhone. Here’s How
Steve Ballmer's company knew what the future of user interfaces would look like.
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Windows 9 rumored for next year, Windows 10 to be 'cloud OS'
Windows 8 is approaching its one-year birthday, and while that usually means a new version is in the works for most products, Microsoft usually puts a few years in between versions to keep things steady. However, the company may be speeding things up, as, according to Geek.com, it’s rumored that Windows 9 is planned for release sometime next year.
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Microsoft To Buy Nokia’s Device Business in Deal Worth $7.17 Billion
Stephen Elop and several other Nokia executives will join Microsoft as part of the deal.
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Microsoft to buy most of Nokia's cellphone business in a $7 billion deal
Microsoft struck a $7 billion deal to acquire Nokia's core cellphone business, a bold move to try to catch up in a fast-growing mobile market that is now dominated by Samsung and Apple.
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Ballmer says Elop a candidate for Microsoft CEO
In a comment that should surprise no one, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that Nokia's Stephen Elop is a candidate to replace him.
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Why Nokia plus Microsoft won't equal Apple
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia is aimed at building a devices and services strategy, but the joint company won't take the same form as Apple.
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Bing overhauls video search, puts Google's offering on its toes
Microsoft announces that it designed Bing's new video search "from the ground up," putting it a step ahead of Google's with improved navigation and more powerful previews.
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Kinect could make Skype calls less awkward
Researchers have used Kinect to inject a natural part of face-to-face conversation into video calling: eye contact. Using the Kinect's facial-recognition technology and some specially developed software, the team is able to make it appear callers are looking directly at their conversational counterpart. Essentially, Kinect determines where a caller is looking, and modifies the angle of a their face to make things seem more natural.
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Xbox One release date confirmed for November 22, a week after the PS4
We’re hearing more details about the next-gen consoles every day now, but large swaths of the internet have been worrying that the Xbox One’s launch might slip past November. In spite of the complete reversal on many core design concepts, Microsoft confirmed today that the Xbox One will indeed launch on November 22 in thirteen markets around the world — a mere seven days before Black Friday in the US.
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Microsoft wins patent trial against Motorola, awarded $14 million
The courts have punished Motorola twice in a row. Not only has one district court ruled that Motorola's standards-essential patents aren't remotely worth the $4 billion the comany claimed, but now a jury in a second trial has decided that the Google-owned company failed to comply with fair and reasonable licensing terms when negotiating with Microsoft over the Wi-Fi and H.264 intellectual property.
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Life after Ballmer: How to fix Microsoft
By almost every traditional measure, Microsoft is one of the world’s most successful companies. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t judged by traditional measures — it is pitted head-to-head against even faster growing rivals including Apple, Google, and Amazon.
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Asus Unveils Gorilla Glass-Topped Zenbook Ultrabooks
Asus today unveiled its newest flagship ultrabooks, the Zenbook UX301 and UX302. The Windows 8-based devices include the signature Zenbook metallic "spun" metal, but also add a layer of scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 for a heavy-duty high-gloss finish.
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Microsoft was ‘surprised’ by negative Xbox One reaction
Fan reaction to the unveiling of the Xbox One was merely the result of a misunderstanding, according to a Microsoft exec predicting an all-digital future.
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This is the Nokia Lumia 1520, a giant 6-inch 1080p Windows Phone
Nokia is preparing to launch a 6-inch Lumia 1520 Windows Phone. We got a brief look at the phone last month thanks to a leaked image, but Verge reader KaZ has supplied a number of new photos of the device.
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Lasker Awards Go to Five Scientists and Gateses
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards, often called the “American Nobels,” will go this year to three scientists who helped deaf people to hear, two others who made fundamental discoveries about how the brain works, and two of the world’s best-known philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates.
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How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool
As the astonishing news that the NSA spent $250M/year on a sabotage program directed against commercial security systems spreads, more details keep emerging.
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