Steve Ballmer

What do you do if you’re in market that is clearly dominated by two giant players and you can’t gain more than a single digit foothold? What do you do if your latest tablet has sales that came in less than expected and you cut the price of it by $100? You can purchase most of...

Last month, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he planned to retire in 2014. Between now and Ballmer's retirement, Microsoft will embark on a journey to find a suitable replacement. Who will it be? Which execs -- in and outside of Microsoft -- are most likely to get the job...

Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced he was retiring. Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock, which has been dead money for 14 years, jumped 7.3 percent on the news as if Microsoft's problems are largely due to incompetence at the top, and now that a new leader will be brought in, the...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken an interest in developing a system to control virtual objects. After Apple filed a patent for what could be the company's answer to Kinect (the Microsoft-developed (NASDAQ: MSFT) motion-based control system for Xbox), investors began to wonder what Apple might do...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. The announcement, which was made just 30 minutes before the market open Friday morning, came more than a year after Ballmer reportedly told his colleagues when he planned to retire. At the time, no one knew when he would...

In an announcement out of left field Friday morning, tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that CEO Steve Ballmer would retire within 12 months. In the press release, it was announced that Ballmer would remain CEO until a successor was named. "There is never a perfect time for this type...

There has been a lot of talk about the proposed (and now official) reorganization changes occurring at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). In a formal letter to his employees, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that the company's goal is to become one strong, unified unit. "We are rallying behind a...

John Sculley, former Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO and tech entrepreneur, said that Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) internal restructuring will be CEO Steve Ballmer's "biggest moment since he took over ten years ago for Bill Gates" on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning. Soon the company will be mainly...

As part of an effort to achieve “functional coherence,” Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer may be set to reveal the company’s restructuring plan as early as Thursday, July 11, according to AllThingsD. When it comes to defining functional coherence, Microsoft is less than specific,...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) store employees are known for their friendly, eager-to-help personalities. The company has worked hard to create a culture where customers not only feel welcome -- Apple also aims to make them feel wanted. Few retailers are that dedicated to pleasing shoppers, but there is...

Thousands of people joined Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Weezer to celebrate the opening of the company's store at the Natick Mall in Boston, Massachusetts. Thousands more swarmed Microsoft's first store in Honolulu, Hawaii, which featured performances by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Neon Trees....

Editor's note: This piece was originally published on March 27, 2013 This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two landmark cases on the issue of same-sex marriage that may change the current government definition of marriage as we know it. The heavy-hitters who have financed the battle to...

Technology companies are often synonymous with Silicon Valley or other tech hubs, but many of the founders of the major publicly traded tech companies come from a place that hasn't exactly been known for innovation in the last 30 years: Detroit. Encompassing the entire Metro Detroit area as...

After a healthy career with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Vic Gundotra left his post as general manager in 2006 to take a fresh, unspecified job with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Gundotra was not allowed to join Google right away -- he was forced to take off a year before he could officially start working...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have achieved a new milestone at least two months ahead of schedule. In an e-mail to the press, Ovum principal analyst Richard Edwards said that his research "suggests that 70 percent of business PCs have successfully transitioned to Windows 7." Last October, The...