Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; fostering more open engagement…
Douglas A. McIntyre If the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 will stop overheating, the company believes that it can double the number of Xbox Live users. The Live product has 10 million users now who…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says that its sales to PC makers in Taiwan are running up and should rise about 10% this year. Manufacturers in Taiwan make about 60% of PCs sold around…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) turned in one of the best performances of the earnings season. Net income rose 38%. Revenue rose 13% to $28.5 billion. The computer company raised guidance and its shares…
It is not enough that Nintendo’s Wii outsells the Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3 and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 in almost every market, every month. Nintendo its launching a new product in…
Bill Gates says Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) can do well in the search market if its offer for Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) does not work out. "We can afford to make big investments in the engineering…
According to Reuters, Toshiba will drop its HD DVD format. Reuters reports that Blll Gates said Microsoft (MSFT) will target web search with or without Yahoo! (YHOO) Reuters writes that RIM (RIMM)…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) backed the wrong horse in the fight for high definition DVD disks and players. Redmond sided with Toshiba and its HD DVD platform and shipped the Xbox 360 with…
According to Reuters, China e-commerce company Alibaba will try to participate in the decision of the potential sale of Yahoo! (YHOO) to Microsoft (MSFT) Yahoo! owns 39% of Alibaba and there are…
Below are most of the equity holdings listed for Bill Gates’ own Cascade Investment, L.L.C. as of December 31, 2007. These were disclosed in a filing late in the week. Keep in…
According to a report in The Inquirer, the failure rate of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xboxs is running at about 16%. One retailer put the number as high as 33%. Most industry observers…
Douglas A. McIntyre After month upon month of being bested by the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), the Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3 is emerging from the shadows. Sales of video games rose 11% in…
According to Reuters, Citigroup says UBS (UBS) may face another $18 billion in write-downs this year. Reuters writes that Alan Greenspan says the US is on the edge of recession. Reuters writes…
Nielsen has released its top aggregate sites by parent company for January 2008, and it starts getting even more clear why this super-merger on the web is being pursued. Below is the…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is in talks with News Corp (NWS) about an M&A deal but analysts say it is unlikely to work. Reuters writes that Paulson thinks the US economy…