Can Groupon become a $3.75 trillion dollar company in 25 years? There’s been a lot of chatter today about Groupon talking to bankers about a possible $25 billion post IPO valuation.… Read More
Trademark or not, Apple lays claim to “the” App Store We’ve been keeping a close eye on a dispute between Microsoft and Apple over the iPhone/iPad maker’s attempt to trademark… Read More
A Windows Phone App … just for the dudes How do you attract young men to your new slate of mobile phones? Well, you could show them photos of… Read More
Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More
Using business intelligence to understand the Japan crisis Business-intelligence technology is typically used to derive meaning and make decisions from data like sales, costs and other corporate trends.… Read More
Browser race: IE9 hits 2.3M; Firefox 4 set for March 22 More than 2.3 million copies of the new Internet Explorer 9 were downloaded in the first 24 hours of availability,… Read More
Bill Gates: What technology (and baseball) can teach schools The challenges facing the U.S. education system may seem intractable, at times, but schools looking for inspiration could do worse… Read More
Microsoft debuts on list of world’s most ethical companies Take that, David Boies and Judge Jackson? Achieving an honor that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, Microsoft today… Read More
Microsoft backs Obama plan for ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’ Microsoft says it will support a push by the Obama administration for new online new privacy legislation that would give… Read More
Bill Gates on Philanthropy: A How-To Guide for Techies For many years, technology executives would crowd into conference halls to listen to Bill Gates, hoping to glean some insight… Read More
Internet Explorer 9: Windows XP users, you’re out of luck Microsoft last night released Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of its widely used web browser. Download it here, but… Read More
Google Apps grows up with new ‘scheduled release’ option What, you didn’t want that amazing new Gmail feature rolled out to your 5,000 employees without warning? Google, doing its… Read More
Fond memories of Microsoft Zune … in brown, of course “This isn’t an iPod killer. This isn’t even going to give the iPod a bad case of the sniffles.” —… Read More
T-Mobile’s Sidekick 4G offers texting across PCs, phones The pictures of T-Mobile’s new Google Android-based Sidekick 4G are nice, but what’s really interesting is the way the company… Read More
Goodbye from Seattle: Microsoft ending Zune device Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on its dedicated Zune hardware but planing to keep the Zune music software running… Read More
Inside IE9: How Microsoft rewrote its browser from scratch Jason Weber’s office boasts a fantastic view, a gigantic monitor — and some of the least-impressive machines you’ll find on… Read More
DOJ review of Microsoft patent buy delays Novell deal The U.S. Justice Department is taking longer than expected to review the sale of 882 patents by Novell to a… Read More
Microsoft giving $2M in cash, services to Japan — no RT required Microsoft this morning pledged to support relief efforts in Japan with donations valued at $2 million, including $250,000 in cash,… Read More
Data Dump: Kindle vs. iPad vs. Xbox vs. everything else Except for maybe those crazies at the front of the iPad 2 line, many of us have become pretty measured… Read More
Microsoft’s IPO, 25 years ago, and what happened after that It was 25 years ago today — March 13, 1986 — that a personal-computer software company named Microsoft Corporation sold… Read More
Bing’s Japan Tweet: A ‘tasteless’ marketing ploy or simply helping a good cause? [Updated with Microsoft statement] Microsoft has found itself in an unwanted maelstrom following a Twitter message posted on its @Bing… Read More
Apple iPad 2 launch: ‘The cachet of being one of the fanboys’ So who was in line for the iPad 2 yesterday afternoon? And why were they willing to spend hours of… Read More
Latest on Microsoft in Japan Microsoft is among the many U.S. companies whose operations were impacted by the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Here’s… Read More
Evolution of the anti-iPhone shirt, at Microsoft’s hometown Goodwill For pure tech t-shirt awesomeness, there’s nothing quite like the Goodwill store near Microsoft’s Redmond campus. This is the place… Read More
Nokia pays big bucks for Elop: Former Microsoft executive receives $6M signing bonus Nokia paid big bucks to dislodge Stephen Elop from Microsoft. The former president of the Microsoft Business Division, who joined… Read More
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ atop the heap in February (List) There’s a new king in the U.S. video game market, and it’s not exactly good news for the industry’s efforts… Read More
Microsoft delays Windows Phone update, frustrates fans A new version of Apple’s iOS (4.3 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) is out and ready for download this… Read More
Xbox 360 scores its biggest non-holiday month ever Microsoft sold 535,000 Xbox 360s in the United States in February, the biggest month in the console’s history outside of… Read More
More Kinect coolness: Business collaboration and home automation hacks Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion… Read More
Former Microsoft exec Chris Liddell to step down as CFO of General Motors Former Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell plans to resign as CFO of General Motors after getting passed over for… Read More
