Apr 20, 2011, 1:52 PM Apple bucks trend with 28% increase in Mac unit sales Apple is just out with its quarterly earnings, reporting record revenues of $24.67 billion and profits of nearly $6 billion.… Read More
Apr 20, 2011, 9:12 AM Yahoo delays Microsoft ad rollout, says adCenter ‘limitations’ hurting revenue Microsoft’s partnership with Yahoo in Internet search and advertising has hit a bump, with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz saying on… Read More
Apr 20, 2011, 8:03 AM Obama to tout Startup America, entrepreneurship at Facebook ‘Town Hall’ President Barack Obama today plans to host a Town Hall event at Facebook’s headquarters in Silicon Valley in a move… Read More
Apr 18, 2011, 9:01 PM Review: Paul Allen’s new book isn’t mean, it’s just honest I’ve just finished reading an advance copy of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s memoir, “Idea Man,” due out Tuesday. You know,… Read More
Apr 18, 2011, 1:22 PM Another Microsoft app for Apple iOS: Photosynth panorama stitching Microsoft has made plenty of apps for Apple’s iOS in the past, but lately it’s becoming almost prolific. Fresh off… Read More
Apr 18, 2011, 10:19 AM Microsoft opens Office subscriptions to masses, with app store — er, ‘marketplace’ Microsoft this morning launched the public beta of “Office 365” — a new subscription service that lets small businesses pay… Read More
Apr 18, 2011, 7:58 AM Microsoft vs. i4i at U.S. Supreme Court: Future of patent law at stake Microsoft and i4i L.P., a small Canadian tech company, will square off this morning in oral arguments before the U.S.… Read More
Apr 17, 2011, 2:07 PM Penny Arcade expands empire with new developer event Interesting news this weekend from the team behind the ever-growing Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX: Building on the… Read More
Apr 15, 2011, 1:33 PM Judge to ex-Microsoft GM: You can’t take that job at Salesforce.com, either A judge in Seattle today denied a former Microsoft general manager’s new attempt to carve out a role for himself… Read More
Apr 15, 2011, 10:55 AM T. Rowe Price invests $190 million in Facebook: More validation for Steve Ballmer’s early bet Microsoft was criticized three years ago when it sunk $240 million into Facebook, valuing the upstart social networking company at… Read More
Apr 14, 2011, 5:11 PM Xbox 360 on top of U.S. console market, again Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a… Read More
Apr 14, 2011, 3:27 PM Photo of the Day: Internet Explorer Gets New Windows Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has been making a point lately of trying to stick to a steady schedule for updates.… Read More
Apr 14, 2011, 1:59 PM Paul Allen on 60 Minutes: Book about history, not revenge against Bill Gates OK, we can finally let you in on a secret we’ve been keeping here at GeekWire: A “60 Minutes” crew… Read More
Apr 14, 2011, 12:42 PM Microsoft data center GM leaves, reportedly for Apple The general manager in charge of Microsoft’s data center operations, Kevin Timmons, has left the company for a job at… Read More
Apr 14, 2011, 6:48 AM Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 3:57 PM Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’ Two days after Microsoft called Google out for “misleading” the U.S. government about a security certification for a Google product,… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 3:10 PM Inside Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 2:55 PM Priceline founder Jay Walker pulls a Paul Allen, sues nearly every big name in tech Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen surprised many in the tech industry last summer when he sued some of the biggest names… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 2:01 PM Revenge of the iPad? PC market tanks in first quarter New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter —… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 1:05 PM Chart: Another record year for online advertising Despite a rocky economy, more dollars continue to shift to online advertising. And that could be good news for a… Read More
Apr 13, 2011, 10:55 AM Speed test: Windows Phone IE9 vs. iPhone 4 and Android At Microsoft’s MIX conference in Las Vegas this morning, the company announced a series of enhancements for the next version… Read More
Apr 12, 2011, 1:33 PM Ex-Microsoft employee charged with stealing $450k from company Federal prosecutors in Seattle have charged a former Microsoft business development director, Robert D. Curry, with three counts of wire… Read More
Apr 12, 2011, 9:36 AM IE10? Yep, Microsoft gives early preview of next browser Fresh off the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft this morning gave the first small glimpse of its plans for… Read More
Apr 12, 2011, 8:18 AM Former Microsoft GM Anna Collins named president of PhotoRocket Anna Collins, a former general manager at Microsoft, has been tapped as president of PhotoRocket. Collins spent the past seven… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 6:19 PM Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store? Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 4:20 PM The project that just won Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup Earlier today I stopped by the Microsoft campus in Redmond to check out many of the finalists in the company’s… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 2:43 PM Data: Bing, Yahoo gain on Google Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 10:25 AM Windows app store Allmyapps reaches 100,000 users Allmyapps, an online app store for Windows PC reminiscent of Apple’s App Store for Mac, this morning announced that it… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 9:36 AM Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More
Apr 11, 2011, 7:58 AM Microsoft ‘TouchStudio’ uses phone to program phone The capabilities of mobile phones have come a long way in the past few years, but a new Windows Phone… Read More
