It’s unusual for consumers to know the name of the CEO of the company whose products they buy. Few people can name the CEO of Toyota, or LG. But how many of us know who runs Apple? Most ordinary folks have no trouble naming him
Browsing: Steve Ballmer
He was once one of Bill Gates’s top lieutenants at Microsoft and was closely involved in the development of the client-server model of computing. Now Zimbabwean-born and SA-educated Paul Maritz, CEO of US cloud computing specialist VMware, says
Think about how many of your friends use Nokia handsets today as opposed to a few years ago. Chances are many of them have ditched the Finnish handset manufacturer’s devices for alternatives from companies such as Apple, Samsung
Microsoft’s provocative US$8,5bn acquisition of Internet telephony company Skype set tongues wagging in the technology industry last week. The deal has been described as everything from a smart strategic buy to desperate flailing
Tuesday’s announcement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that it will buy Skype for a whopping US$8,5bn hasn’t been universally welcomed. Many critics are questioning the logic of the deal, with some saying
US$50. That’s how much Microsoft is paying for every active user of Skype. The software giant on Tuesday said it would pay $8,5bn to buy the popular Internet communications company
The intense competition and rapid innovation in the smartphone market have forced two of the industry’s biggest players to team up. Microsoft and Nokia last Friday
Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem, write Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
It’s official. Apple is the world’s most valuable technology company. On Wednesday, its market capitalisation surpassed Microsoft’s for the first…
The SA subsidiary of US multinational Microsoft plans to pump R472m into local black-owned SA software companies over the next…