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Microsoft said to include Kevin Turner on internal list for CEO

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:11 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board placed Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner…

Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Elop, Mulally make the cut

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 11:30 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates…

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Compute cloud suffers global crash

Friday, November 1, 2013 1:01 pmFriday, November 1, 201326 Comments

Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud was hit by a worldwide outage…

Beleaguered Dell officially gives the money back to the shareholders

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:57 pm47 Comments

Beleaguered Dell today announced the completion of its acquisition…

Apple recruits employees from beleaguered BlackBerry

Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:01 pmThursday, October 10, 201314 Comments

Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.’s business model…

DCW Blackberry begins axing 4,500 employees

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:28 pmWednesday, October 9, 201312 Comments

BlackBerry wasted little time in embarking on the layoffs…

Beleaguered BlackBerry hit with shareholder class action lawsuit for misrepresenting state of company

Saturday, October 5, 2013 3:01 pmSaturday, October 5, 201329 Comments

A shareholder of BlackBerry Ltd sued the company and its executives on Friday…

Microsoft short-timer Ballmer loses over half his bonus over failure to compete with Apple

Friday, October 4, 2013 8:58 amFriday, October 4, 201340 Comments

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received $1.26 million…

How BlackBerry blew it: The inside story

Monday, September 30, 2013 6:00 pmMonday, September 30, 201331 Comments

Late last year, Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive officer Thorsten Heins…

Squirmfest: Video of Ballmer’s tearful farewell to Microsoft

Monday, September 30, 2013 5:17 pmMonday, September 30, 201389 Comments

Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been…

Beleaguered BlackBerry to ax workforce by up to 40%

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:30 pmWednesday, September 18, 201326 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry Ltd. is axing its workforce…

Microsoft employees recognize beleaguered company has lost its way

Monday, September 9, 2013 9:29 amMonday, September 9, 201324 Comments

Since mid-July, three interlocking events…

Can beleaguered Microsoft really go head-to-head with Apple?

Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, September 5, 201330 Comments

No.

Rob Enderle: ‘I may be delusional’

Friday, August 30, 2013 10:58 amFriday, August 30, 201355 Comments

I view Steve’s early retirement as one of my own greatest failures…

British Bookmaker Ladbrokes takes bets on Microsoft’s next CEO

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:03 pmFriday, August 30, 201324 Comments

While much of the tech world has spent the last week handicapping…

Ballmer’s poisonous employee-ranking system helps explain beleaguered Microsoft’s decline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:30 pmTuesday, August 27, 201358 Comments

There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft seeks to reassure workers by telling them that Ballmer’s reorg plan will go ahead

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:05 amTuesday, August 27, 201335 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is telling employees that a reorganization plan…

The rise and fall of Windows Mobile, under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer

Monday, August 26, 2013 12:34 pmMonday, August 26, 201322 Comments

For several years, before Apple introduced an iPhone…

Steve Ballmer’s exit not planned or as smooth as portrayed by Microsoft

Monday, August 26, 2013 11:09 amMonday, August 26, 201332 Comments

According to sources close to the situation…

If Steve Ballmer ran Apple

Monday, August 26, 2013 10:00 amMonday, August 26, 201324 Comments

Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple…

Under sales guy Ballmer, Microsoft’s stock has been a dud

Monday, August 26, 2013 9:02 am20 Comments

When Steve Ballmer took over as CEO in January 2000…

A Tale of Two Steves: Apple’s Jobs vs. Microsoft’s Ballmer

Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:29 pmTuesday, August 27, 201363 Comments

Steve Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs…

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s $16 billion albatross

Friday, August 23, 2013 2:58 pmFriday, August 23, 201314 Comments

It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…

Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news

Friday, August 23, 2013 10:33 amFriday, August 23, 201359 Comments

Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process

Friday, August 23, 2013 9:31 amMonday, August 26, 2013176 Comments

Well, it’s finally happened…

Beleaguered Dell’s quarterly profit plummets 72% as PC sales shrink

Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:32 pmThursday, August 15, 201328 Comments

Dell Inc, the PC maker embroiled in a takeover battle between…

Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

Monday, July 22, 2013 6:38 pmMonday, July 22, 2013103 Comments

Windows as a post-PC operating system is dead…

Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly

Friday, July 19, 2013 1:02 pmFriday, July 19, 201350 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it was taking a $900 million write-down on Surface tablets…

Best Buy slashes price on beleaguered BlackBerry’s Z10 phone flop

Friday, July 12, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 12, 201316 Comments

Best Buy Co has cut the price of BlackBerry Ltd.’s Z10 smartphone…

Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet

Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:36 pmThursday, July 11, 201332 Comments

Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…

iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising

Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:03 pmThursday, July 11, 201345 Comments

Microsoft announced Surface last summer to great fanfare…

Beleaguered Dell shares crumble

Friday, July 5, 2013 7:28 pmFriday, July 5, 201342 Comments

Shares of Dell Inc. slid Friday following reports that CEO Michael Dell…

Beleaguered BlackBerry shares plummet most since 2000 on Z10 phone flop

Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:28 amSaturday, June 29, 201313 Comments

BlackBerry (BBRY)’s shares tumbled the most since 2000…

Microsoft massively discounts anemic-selling Surface RT tablets to schools worldwide

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:34 pm42 Comments

Microsoft has announced a new program that will see schools around…

Microsoft gives away 10,000 Surface RT tablets at education conference

Monday, June 17, 2013 6:02 pmMonday, June 17, 201365 Comments

Microsoft will give attendees at the…

Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales

Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:02 pmThursday, May 30, 201368 Comments

Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…

Apple’s iTunes snub is yet another nail in Microsoft’s Windows RT coffin

Monday, May 13, 2013 10:47 am13 Comments

Windows RT just can’t catch a break. Last week’s big news…

Microsoft cautiously preps 2nd-generation of Surface tablet flops with smaller displays

Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:25 amThursday, May 2, 201335 Comments

Microsoft is expected to announce second-generation Surface tablets…

Failed Apple CEO John Sculley: If I were Samsung, I would tap Ron Johnson

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:51 amWednesday, April 10, 201334 Comments

The ever-increasingly vacant-eyed John Sculley, failed former Apple Computer CEO…

Windows RT tablet prices drop, pointing to failure of Windows RT

Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:31 pmThursday, April 4, 201320 Comments

Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling…

Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:28 am41 Comments

Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…

Beleaguered Nokia CEO Stephen Elop throws ’embarrassing’ Apple iPhone across floor (with video)

Friday, March 22, 2013 3:49 pmFriday, June 28, 201340 Comments

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop thinks that Apple’s iPhone is embarrassing….

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