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Beleaguered Microsoft announces yet another major reorg; axes up to 3,000 employees
Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs…
Beleaguered Microsoft to ax ‘thousands’ more employees
Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide..
Apple: Just not good enough
After the bell on Tuesday, Apple reported its fiscal second quarter results for the period…
Quark releases macOS Sierra Update for QuarkXPress 2016
Quark Software Inc. released today the October Update for QuarkXPress 2016. With the new update…
Beleaguered Microsoft axes 2,850 more employees
Beleaguered Microsoft said in May it would cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone business…
Judge rules Michael Dell didn’t give all the money back to the shareholders, by $6 billion
A Delaware judge’s recent ruling that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners shortchanged public shareholders…
Microsoft pulls plug on consumer smartphones, axes another 1,850 jobs
Microsoft is further scaling back its flagging phone business, exiting the consumer market…
Cue the funeral for Microsoft’s Windows Phone
Beleaguered Microsoft’s mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate…
Phil Schiller responds to developer complaints about App Store algorithms broken since at least 2013
Complaints that Apple’s App Store algorithms are broken, often returning nonsensical results for highlighted categories…
Jay-Z’s beleaguered Tidal music service fires CFO, COO; faces $5 million royalty lawsuit
Jay Z’s Tidal music service is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week…
Amazon and Best Buy slash prices on Moto 360 stupidwatch
As the revolutionary Apple Watch preorders kicked off, Motorola’s Moto 360 flop saw it’s price hacked today…
Gigaom closes down
According to a spate of tweets from its staffers and also confirmation from sources…
WTF?! Amazon inserts ads for Misfire Phone flop into Amazon Prime videos
I canceled Amazon Prime…
Beleaguered Microsoft axes another 2,100 employees
Microsoft has confirmed another 2,100 redundancies as part of a plan…
Surface damage mounts at beleaguered Microsoft as losses surpass $1.7 billion
Three strikes and yer out!
Beleaguered Microsoft’s 18,000 layoffs the beginning of a painful attempt to clean up Ballmer’s mess, says Street
Nokia board members apparently pleaded with Stephen Elop to take a smaller bonus but he refused because he said he needed that money to pay for his pending divorce…
Beleaguered Microsoft to axe up to 18,000 employees over the next year
The job cuts are the largest in the company’s 39-year history…
The Microsoft gibberish report
So I read a recent message to Microsoft employees from CEO Satya Nadella…
Microsoft to begin axing thousands of employees as soon as this week
Microsoft Corp. is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years…
Beleaguered Microsoft CEO lays groundwork for mass layoffs, yet another rearrangement of the deck chairs
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, has written a company manifesto of sorts…
Samsung CFO admits quarterly results to be ‘not that good’
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is a confirmed dud…
More blood on Apple iTunes Store’s play button: Samsung pulls plug on music, e-book store duds
Samsung has revealed that amidst an reorganization of the company…
Beleaguered Microsoft is now irrelevant to computing, and they want the world to know it
With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is…
Microsoft offers cheaper subscription: Office 365 for one Mac and one iPad for $69/year
Microsoft is launching a cheaper ‘Personal’ Office 365 subscription…
Business owners beware: What CIOs need to know about Office 365 and Office for iPad
Office for the iPad makes it even more likely that…
Microsoft’s fork in the road
Ballmer seemed hell-bent on ensuring…
We can live without Office for iPad
Last week Microsoft made the headlines by finally acknowledging…
Ihnatko: Office for iPad a boon for compatibility with business, but costs $100 a year forever
Microsoft’s Office for iPad is “free” in a way that’s worse than “paid”…
Estimize CEO Drogen: Microsoft isn’t Apple’s competitor anymore
Estimize Founder and CEO Leigh Drogen discusses Microsoft’s rollout of Office for iPad…
Microsoft’s Nadella to Apple’s Cook on Office revenue sharing: Drop dead
The only revenue for which Apple is due its 30% commission will be…
Apple takes their usual 30% cut of Microsoft’s Office for iPad subscriptions
While one of the big holdups for Office for iPad was getting the software…
Microsoft releases hobbled Office for iPad; requires $100/year subscription to create/edit documents
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday unveiled Office for iPad…
The day Ballmer went too far: Screaming ultimatum to BoD last July, either buy Nokia or I’m gone!
As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft Corp., he’s coming to grips…
Ballmer wishes for 10 year do-over, says Microsoft missed the mobile market
Microsoft Corp largely missed the mobile market in the last decade…
QuarkXPpress: One of the greatest business failures in modern tech
Ignoring – or worse, dissing – the Mac, especially when you’re a maker of publishing software is suicide…
Microsoft declines to name new Ballmer replacement this year, promises new CEO in ‘early 2014’
From an initial pool of 100 candidates, Microsoft narrowed to 20…
Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT
Do not risk your hard-earned money on Microsoft’s dead end products…
Disc Drive of Doom: Microsoft’s new Xbox One consoles suffer disc drive problems
Remember the Red Ring of Death? Now it’s the Disc Drive of Doom…
Microsoft short-timer Steve Ballmer’s exit interview
Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here…
Microsoft CEO candidate Elop said to mull focus company on Office, not Windows
Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO…
Microsoft said to include Kevin Turner on internal list for CEO
Microsoft Corp.’s board placed Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner…
