August 4, 2010 1:04 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft said Wednesday that it has settled a patent dispute with Salesforce.com, with both companies licensing each other’s patents and the cloud software firm paying an undisclosed sum to Redmond.
Financial details were not disclosed.
“We are pleased to reach this agreement with Salesforce.com to put [...]
August 4, 2010 9:40 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is among dozens of billionaires who have signed on to give away the bulk of their wealth to charity.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have been lobbying the world’s megarich to sign a “Giving Pledge” to eventually donate at least half [...]
July 29, 2010 1:16 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
REDMOND, Wash.–Steve Ballmer made the case Thursday that Microsoft not only gets the consumer market, but is set to grow its business there.
Speaking at the company’s financial analyst meeting here, Microsoft’s CEO began his speech by talking about the current state of the company’s [...]
July 7, 2010 2:29 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft on Wednesday began cutting a small number of jobs from its workforce, a source confirmed to CNET.
As previously reported, the layoffs are not expected to be the start of mass cuts, but are more similar to the types of reshuffling that the company [...]
July 7, 2010 2:29 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft on Wednesday began cutting a small number of jobs from its workforce, a source confirmed to CNET.
As previously reported, the layoffs are not expected to be the start of mass cuts, but are more similar to the types of reshuffling that the company [...]
July 6, 2010 4:32 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft may eliminate some jobs as it begins a new fiscal year, however the company is not expected to undergo massive layoffs along the lines of what it did last year, when thousands of jobs were eliminated, according to a source.
The cuts currently being [...]
June 3, 2010 10:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Editor’s note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component below. Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and [...]
June 2, 2010 2:08 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are slated to speak at the D: All Things Digital event on Thursday morning.
Check back around 8 a.m. PDT for live coverage from the event. My less-than-shocking prediction is that, in [...]
June 2, 2010 2:08 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are slated to speak at the D: All Things Digital event on Thursday morning.
Check back around 8 a.m. PDT for live coverage from the event. My less-than-shocking prediction is that, in [...]