The week had been a pretty tough one for Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer. The week started off with David Einhorn demanding the CEO’s dismissal. David is a big shot hedge fund manager and holds about 9 million Microsoft shares. Though, this number roughly translates to mere 0.11 percent stake in the company, but the [...]

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Microsoft and Blackberry have signed an agreement that will see Microsoft’s Bing search engine be the standard search engine on all future Blackberrry phones, similar to Google and the iPhone. The agreement was announced yesterday at the Blackberry World conference in Florida as CEO Steve Ballmer was invited to join the stage and announce the [...]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been saying some pretty interesting things in a Lecture to London School of Economics students including that “Piracy in China is twenty times worse than the UK and twelve times worse than in India and that, coupled with China’s growing economic power, makes him “nervous.” On another note, Ballmer also [...]

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The rumours are questioned no more. As part of his opening keynote at CES 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed the HP slate, though “that’s not what it’s called.” Ballmer clarified that that Microsoft has dubbed the device as a slate to differentiate it from the pen-and-screen tool that Bill Gates showed off back [...]

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