In the not-so-distant past, we’ve seen a hard-coded Bing Easter Egg declaring Google “more evil than Satan himself;” the Hiybbprqag honeypot drama, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s declaration that Google is just copying Bing.
Back in October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted at a Siri rival coming out of their camp when he discussed Windows phones with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit. It wasn’t clear at the time (and still isn’t) to which Microsoft product Ballmer was...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco for the first time in three years to talk Bing vs. While acknowledging the value of their alliance, Ballmer noted they Microsoft had been “lucky” their bid to buy...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also posted a statement: Steve Jobs, Apple cofounder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand and on stage at RIM's annual Blackberry World event. Ballmer added that Microsoft is "focused on doing this in a way that protects users' privacy. This goes way beyond a search box," Ballmer said from the stage.
In an open letter from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, it was announced that: Despite the ugliness between Bing and Google last week, Bing has had positive news this week, with Hitwise and comScore both reporting growing...
At the Citizenship Accelerator Summit, CEO Steve Ballmer gave his point of view on security, privacy and Facebook. Ballmer to the rescue The privacy issue ghost haunting online companies is once more back to the forefront of the news today as...
You have to think that adding 4% search market share all at once has crossed Steve Ballmer's mind. Yesterday, on the IAC earnings conference call, CEO Barry Diller said that he'd be open to selling Ask.com.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer echoed that idea, adding that the increased volume of searches and ads being served by Microsoft would greatly accelerate the speed of learning from the marketplace, allowing Microsoft to improve its Bing algorithm and...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hopes that combining the resources of the #2 and #3 search engines will help innovation, which he says is needed to steal share from Google. With our new Bing search platform, we've created breakthrough innovation and...
Microsoft Live Search is Now Bing Posted by Kevin Newcomb May 28, 2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today drew back the curtain on the new incarnation of Live Search: Bing. Here's how the media and blogosphere reacted: First, here's a summary of...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today drew back the curtain on the new incarnation of Live Search: Bing. Speaking at the D7 Conference in San Diego, Ballmer launched Microsoft's new Search brand, formerly code-named "Kumo.
Search a Bright Spot for Microsoft Posted by Kevin Newcomb Jan 22, 2009 While Microsoft plans to lay off about 5,000 employees across its various business lines, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today that the company will be hiring in some areas...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the partnership at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas yesterday. While Google may own the web search market, Microsoft's announced deal with Verizon could put them at the top of the mobile search...
turned the initial offer down, endured an "ultimatum" from Steve Ballmer, was rumored to have rejected an increased offer of $33 a share, and neglected to negotiate selling off just the search portion of Yahoo!
In a memo to Microsoft employees, CEO Steve Ballmer addressed goals for many of Microsoft's products and services. Senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky, Jon DeVaan and Bill Veghte will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer to lead Windows/Windows...
During the past week I have spoken frequently with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. Microsoft's Ballmer has been talking to Carl Icahn, who has put together a proxy board to take over Yahoo. Steve made it abundantly clear that, due to his...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Leave it to Ballmer to play Darth Vader to the newspaper industry. Google CEO Eric Schmidt News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch Across the country today, some people share that view, and others are just frightened.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Sees All Media Electronic in 10 years Posted by Frank Watson Jun 26, 2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the Washington Post today that trees will have no fears from newspaper publishers as all media will be electronic.
Below is the text of the letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! In a letter to Jerry Yang (full text below), Steve Ballmer cited Yahoo's intention to outsource search as the primary reason he decided to scotch the deal.
