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Ballmer:
Old Media Won't Last a Decade

Microsoft boss says papers, TV won't bounce back 

Jun 25, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The ad revenue media companies lost in the downturn won't be coming back when things turn around, Steve Ballmer told an advertising conference yesterday. The Microsoft boss said the industry has been "reset" at a lower level, and media companies are going to have to learn to survive on... More »

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media • advertising • ad revenue • Steve Ballmer • new media • digital media

OPINION

 Microsoft Blows It 
 With Bizarre Bing Ads 

Blame Google for the collapse of global financial architecture

Jun 9, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft is thrashing Google in new TV spots for its "decision engine" Bing—understandably, since from Microsoft's perspective their rival is single-handedly responsible for the global financial crisis. "While everyone was searching, there was bailing," says an announcer, as images of fleeting Internet memes give way... More »

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Google • Microsoft • advertising • search engine marketing • search engine • Steve Ballmer • TV advertising • Bing

 Microsoft's New 
 Search Engine: Bing 

'Decision engine' gives users more control over results

May 28, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft wants “Bing” to replace “Google” as your verb of choice for Internet search, PC World reports, with CEO Steve Ballmer unveiling the search engine today at a conference in California. Bing—already available for a test run—will be fully rolled out by Wednesday. The runner-up... More »

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technology • Google • Internet • Microsoft • search engine • Steve Ballmer • Microsoft Live Search • Jay-ZTV • Bing

ANALYSIS

Years of Search and Destroy Get Microsoft Back to Yahoo

New Yahoo CEO opens door for search deal, another shot to catch Google

Jan 16, 09 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A new CEO at Yahoo has many speculating Microsoft will renew its bid for Yahoo’s Web-search unit, the Wall Street Journal reports. But Microsoft’s quest isn’t a mere attempt to better compete with Google in the $12.3 billion paid-search market; it’s the rectification of years... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • search engine • Steve Ballmer • paid searches • Carol Bartz

 Even Microsoft Is 
 Weighing Layoffs 

Need to trim costs in weak economy has software firm looking at rare cuts

Jan 15, 09 9:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft could be considering the first large-scale layoff in its history, as it looks for ways to trim costs, reports the Wall Street Journal. Up to 15,000 positions are rumored to be at risk—6% of its workforce—but insiders say the cuts, across all divisions, are likely... More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • layoffs • Sun Microsystems • Steve Ballmer • Hewlett-Packard • recession depression

 High Traffic Delays 
 Windows 7 Beta Rollout 

Company's site crumbles under demand

Jan 9, 09 5:09 PM CST
(Newser) - After promising the world Windows 7 Beta on Wednesday, Microsoft had to pull the plug on its download site due to cripplingly high traffic, CNET reports today. “We are adding some additional infrastructure support,” Microsoft said, “before we post the public beta.” Microsoft hopes to have... More »

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Internet • Microsoft • Microsoft Windows • download • website • Steve Ballmer • web traffic • Windows 7 • beta testing • postpone

 Ballmer Opens Up 
 Windows 7 Beta 

Beta version of Vista successor available to the public starting tomorrow

Jan 8, 09 5:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Windows 7 Beta will be launched to the public tomorrow, Steve Ballmer told the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday. The Microsoft chief, filling the keynote slot held by Bill Gates in the previous 11 years, told the audience that the operating system would be a return to the "special sauce"... More »

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Microsoft • Windows • Microsoft Vista • operating system • Steve Ballmer • Microsoft Live Search • Windows Live • cloud computing • Consumer Electronics Show • Windows 7

$20B Yahoo Search Deal 'Total Fiction': Exec

Execs scoff at story of Microsoft dropping $20B on search biz

Nov 30, 08 8:03 PM CST
(Newser) - A report that Microsoft will buy Yahoo's search business and give two Internet execs a 30% share is "total fiction," one of the execs tells Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital. Swisher agrees that the $20 billion deal, reported by the London Times, is likely non-existent. After all, board member... More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • search engine • Steve Ballmer • takeover bid

 Ballmer Quashes Yahoo Bid Rumors; Open to Partnership

Microsoft 'done' with acquisition attempts, even after Yang's resignation

Nov 19, 08 12:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Steve Ballmer quashed the rumor that Microsoft would make another offer to buy Yahoo now that Jerry Yang has quit as CEO, CNET reports. “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo,” the chief executive said today. “We did our best; we’ve moved on.” More »

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Yahoo • Internet • Microsoft • Jerry Yang • acquisition • search • Steve Ballmer

For Yahoo, Question Is:
Who's Yang's Yin?

The next Yahoo CEO will have to take the Web portal in a new direction to sate Wall Street

Nov 19, 08 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo’s successor to CEO Jerry Yang could come from outside the Internet industry, as long as he has a strong operations background and the decisiveness to break the company’s culture of indecision, reports the Wall Street Journal. But even before hiring a CEO, the company needs to decide... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • Jerry Yang • Steve Ballmer

ANALYSIS

Yang's Departure Gives Microsoft New Opening

Analysts see 'beginning of the end for Yahoo' as CEO steps down

Nov 18, 08 9:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Investors are hoping Jerry Yang’s departure will lead to renewed talks with Microsoft, BusinessWeek reports. “This is probably the beginning of the end for Yahoo,” said one. “Microsoft will probably come back with an offer.” Microsoft has repeatedly denied interest in reviving a deal, but... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • mergers and acquisitions • Jerry Yang • Steve Ballmer

Wall Street's Tumble Costs Buffett $9.6B

Top CEOs have taken a 28% hit in the value of their company holdings

Oct 23, 08 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Next time you check the value of your portfolio, know that America's top executives are taking a pounding with you: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has seen his holdings in his company decline $9.6 billion this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. And he’s got company. Oracle’... More »

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Warren Buffett • Larry Ellison • Steve Ballmer • Jeff Bezos • financial crisis

After Yahoo, Microsoft Amps Up Search Effort

Ballmer says company can be more flexible now in Google fight

Jul 24, 08 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - CEO Steve Ballmer is spinning Microsoft’s failure to acquire Yahoo expertly, telling analysts today that, unburdened by the search giant, the company can be more frisky and adaptable in its fight with nemesis Google, the Wall Street Journal reports. Actions might speak louder than words, though: Microsoft announced yesterday... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • mergers and acquisitions • search engine • Steve Ballmer • analyst

Opinion

It's Google's Turn on
the Hot Seat

Microsoft off the hook as Congress goes
after its archrival

Jul 14, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - You have to forgive Microsoft if it indulges in some schadenfreude today, writes Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times. Archrival Google is facing a peril that’s all too familiar in Redmond. Steve Ballmer can sit back tomorrow as Google’s top execs go before the Senate subcommittee on antitrust,... More »

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Congress • Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • antitrust • Steve Ballmer

Icahn: Microsoft Will Only Negotiate With Me

Board must be replaced, Ballmer says

Jul 7, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Carl Icahn says Microsoft is still in the hunt to acquire Yahoo, but only if the board is replaced, the Wall Street Journal reports. Icahn says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer “made it abundantly clear” to him that he wouldn’t talk with Yahoo’s current board, which he fears... More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • Carl Icahn • mergers and acquisitions • Steve Ballmer

 Teary Farewell for Gates 

Microsoft CEO salutes founder, leaving after 33 years, for 'enormous opportunity'

Jun 27, 08 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft celebrated Bill Gates’ last day as a full-time employee today, the Seattle Times reports. More than 800 employees, family members and friends shared memories at the company’s corporate conference center in Redmond, Wash. CEO Steve Ballmer bid a tearful farewell to his longtime friend: "We've been given... More »

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philanthropy • technology • Microsoft • Bill Gates • computer programming • Steve Ballmer • Redmond • computer science

Gates Departure Should Calm
the Waters

Joint leadership with Ballmer slowed, hurt Microsoft's growth

Jun 5, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates’ departure from full-time employment at Microsoft on June 27 will end 8 contentious years in which Gates has attempted to stay onboard while nominally beneath his close friend and new CEO, Steve Ballmer. Though they built the company together, this “ambassadorial succession” produced mixed results, with Gates... More »

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technology • Google • Microsoft • Bill Gates • software • leadership • power sharing • Steve Ballmer • executive power • corporate leadership

OPINION

Life After Gates Will Take Some Adjustment

Yahoo fallout just the first challenge for Ballmer, Microsoft

May 29, 08 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft and CEO Steve Ballmer are facing a scary, new post-Bill-Gates world, Therese Poletti writes on MarketWatch. On a panel at the All Things Digital conference earlier this week, Ballmer and Gates fielded questions about Microsoft’s failed Yahoo bid and unpopular Vista operating system. “Ballmer and indeed Microsoft... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • Steve Ballmer • All Things Digital

 Protester Eggs Microsoft CEO 

Ballmer dodges attack by Hungarian during university lecture

May 21, 08 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in Budapest this week to give a lecture to Hungarian university students, but the talk took an unexpected turn when he was pelted with eggs. Unlike Bill Gates, who was hit in the face with a cream pie a decade ago, Ballmer was able to... More »

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Microsoft • eggs • Hungary • Steve Ballmer • protesters • Budapest

Microsoft Aims for Yahoo's Search Ad Biz

But execs don't like plan, which includes breaking up company

May 19, 08 9:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft's new offer to Yahoo includes breaking up the company and buying its search-advertising business, notions that have left Yahoo execs cold, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the plan, Yahoo would sell its Asian assets and let Microsoft buy a minority stake in what's left of the company. More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • merger • Jerry Yang • acquisition • Steve Ballmer

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