Stories tagged with Microsoft
Jerry Seinfeld faces greatest comic challenge - making Microsoft seem hip
By Emily Morgan | August 21, 2008 at 4:14pm | 1
In an effort to jazz up its image, Microsoft Corp. is hiring Jerry Seinfeld, the 54-year-old comedian whose last starring role ended 10 years ago.
Microsoft confirms it could renew its effort to buy all of Yahoo!
By Gary Jacobson | July 7, 2008 at 10:41am | 0
As dissident shareholder Carl Icahn warned that Yahoo! is “moving toward a precipice” and “it is time for a change,” Microsoft said today it could renew its effort to buy Yahoo! The catch: First Yahoo! shareholders must vote in a new slate of directors at their Aug. 1 meeting.
Rate your boss on Glassdoor.com
By Emily Morgan | June 12, 2008 at 3:24pm | 0
Wouldn’t you love to know what you’d earn if you worked for your employer’s biggest competitor?
Raikes moves from Microsoft to top spot at Gates Foundation
By A. James Memmott | May 13, 2008 at 3:20pm | 0
Microsoft’s employee No. 105 will soon become the No. 1 employee at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest foundation in the world.
Marc Benioff sells millions of Salesforce shares; has millions more
By Laurie Bennett | April 30, 2008 at 10:51am | 0
In a collaborative campaign to compete with Microsoft in internet-delivered software, Google and Salesforce.com have become increasingly cozy.
Mimi Gardner Gates: The quiet, scholarly member of the family
By Laurie Bennett | April 24, 2008 at 11:32am | 0
Gates men are suckers for smart women.
Microsoft hires lobbyists to help with Yahoo acquisition
By Laurie Bennett | April 21, 2008 at 10:13am | 0
Microsoft has brought in a Washington lobbying firm, Bryan Cave Strategies, to help in its drive to buy Yahoo.
Bill Gates enjoyed biggest payday of 2007
By Laurie Bennett | March 7, 2008 at 10:05am | 1

Bill Gates and Pete Peterson
Bill Gates may have lost top seating on the Forbes billionaires list, but he leads Vanity Fair’s accounting of America’s 50 richest paydays.
The magazine ranked windfalls that came from big deals such as company sales, real estate transactions and stock cash-outs. Gates sold $2.5 billion in Microsoft stock last year.
A closer look at Yahoo leadership
By Laurie Bennett | February 18, 2008 at 10:08am | 0
Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo has put a harsh spotlight, perhaps too late, on the company’s board.
Kara Swisher, writing on All Things Digital this morning, predicts that the directors’ response to the unsolicited buyout attempt may simply be inertia.
Yahoo-Maven deal opens another path for Microsoft
By Laurie Bennett | February 13, 2008 at 11:20am | 0
Being pursued by Microsoft hasn’t deterred Yahoo from its own pursuits of smaller fry.
Yahoo announced yesterday that it had paid $160 million for Maven Networks, a firm that sells video-management systems for online advertising. Maven’s customers include such major media outfits as Gannett, Scripps and Fox News.
