Microsoft
Bing brings Facebook to search party
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google.
Date: 05/11/2012 | Business
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble team up on Nook
NEW YORK — An infusion of money from Microsoft Corp. sent Barnes & Noble Inc.'s stock zooming Monday, as the software giant established a way to get back into the e-books business.
Date: 04/30/2012 | Business
Microsoft's fiscal 3Q tops Wall Street predictions
REDMOND -- Microsoft's fared better than analysts anticipated in its latest quarter, boosted by a surprising rise in sales of its Windows operating system for personal computers
Date: 04/20/2012 | Business
Microsoft's Paul Allen victim of identity theft, FBI says
PHILADELPHIA -- An AWOL soldier's simple scheme to defraud one of the richest men in the world has landed him in federal custody, according to a criminal complaint.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Business
Apple describes post-PC era, surprise of success
SAN FRANCISCO -- In announcing the new iPad, Apple CEO Tim Cook described a "post-PC" revolution that surprised even the company.
Date: 03/07/2012 | Business
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing at conference in Spain
BARCELONA, Spain -- Microsoft on Wednesday let consumers start trying out its upcoming touch-based Windows 8 operating system, which aims to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs designed to counter Apple's big gains in the market through its Macs and iPads.
Date: 03/01/2012 | Business
Microsoft's future riding on Windows 8
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom.
Date: 02/29/2012 | Business
Microsoft shares up after big quarter
Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.
Date: 01/23/2012 | Business
Microsoft pulls out of electronic trade show
NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp. is pulling out of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the Americas. It's joining Apple in saying that it prefers to put on its own events when the time is right to show off its products.
Date: 12/22/2011 | Business
Microsoft to boost payments for app developers
NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp. is stepping up its competition with Apple and plans to give developers who write software for Windows computers and devices a greater share of revenue sold through the company's upcoming Windows Store.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Business
Gates explains in court why WordPerfect was left out of Windows 95
SALT LAKE CITY -- Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word processor, Bill Gates testified Monday in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit...
Date: 11/21/2011 | Business
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL fight Google for online ads
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are teaming up to sell some of the online advertising space that they have had trouble selling on their own. The alliance announced Tuesday represents a joint attack on Google. The Internet search leader has become an even more powerful force in Internet marketing since...
Date: 11/09/2011 | Business
Sultan School District wins $50,000 grant from Microsoft for tech needs
SULTAN -- It was a 59-second clip worth $50,000.
Date: 10/29/2011 | Local News
Microsoft stock dips on modest third quarter
Microsoft's Windows franchise regained some of its vigor during the company's latest quarter, but that might not be enough to overcome the perception that the world's largest software maker is being outmaneuvered by nimble rivals whose fortunes aren't tied to the personal computer. The results...
Date: 10/21/2011 | Business
Microsoft, Samsung expand smartphone partnership
NEW YORK -- Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have agreed to cross-license one another's patent portfolios, with Microsoft getting royalties for the mobile phones and tablets Samsung sells that run Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
Date: 09/29/2011 | Business
Bill Gates still the richest in U.S.
LOS ANGELES -- The nation's economic woes don't appear to be hurting Bill Gates, who tops Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans for the 18th year in a row.
Date: 09/22/2011 | Business
Microsoft, Google have new patent feud
Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat over -- wait for it -- patents.
Date: 08/06/2011 | Business
Tulalips, Microsoft amicably settle name issue
TULALIP -- No hard feelings, tribal leaders say.The question of whether tribal leadership was upset with the use of "Tulalip" for a prototype of a Microsoft social media design project was answered Thursday evening when the tribes' Board of Directors issued the following statement:
Date: 07/22/2011 | Local News
Tulalip Tribes question Microsoft about name for company's social media project
TULALIP -- It got the techies buzzing.One day last week, Microsoft published online a prototype of an uber-secret social media design project.Here's the kicker: The project name was "Tulalip."
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
TechBits: Microsoft launches Web-based Office suite
Microsoft launches Web-based Office suiteMicrosoft Corp. has officially launched its Web-based email and Office services, part of its ongoing effort to keep Google at bay when it comes to business software.
Date: 07/03/2011 | Business
FTC lets Microsoft proceed with purchase of Skype
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission is letting software giant Microsoft Corp. proceed with its largest deal ever, an $8.5 billion bid for web chat and call service Skype.
Date: 06/18/2011 | Nation & World
Gov. Gregoire signs bill to allow colleges to increase college tuition by 11% to 16%
SEATTLE -- Washington state's six four-year colleges and universities will be able to set their own tuition, which had previously done by the Legislature, under a measure that Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Monday.
Date: 06/06/2011 | Northwest
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