Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has left the company's board to spend more time on his newly acquired Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, but said he will keep his 4 percent stake in ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
... hose from Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates, American actor Chris Pratt, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actor Ben Affleck and Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who have joined the social media craze ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
... ckerberg, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Tesla's Elon Mush have all participated. Interestingly, after Ethel Kennedy, the 86-year-old widow of Robert Kennedy, took the challenge, she nominated President B ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
... cted were Microsoft Corp., chip maker Qualcomm Inc. as well as car giants Audi AG, Daimler AG and Chrysler. Critics have charged that regulators are singling out foreign companies, and that the probes ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-18
An ice bucket challenge has been issued to Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos: Will they take it? Business leaders from Mark Zuckerberg to Microsoft Corp’s Satya Nadella have joined the social ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-15
... lcomm and Microsoft have also confirmed that they are the subject of competition investigations by Chinese authorities. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/JL ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
... also uses Microsoft's Windows operating system on its computers. There is no ground for Beijing to impose a ban on foreign tech products, given the fact that many Chinese firms and consumers are relyi ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
... rsky Lab. Microsoft Corp. was excluded from a government procurement list for energy-efficient computers. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
A Chinese antitrust regulator conducted new raids on Microsoft Corp and its partner in China Accenture, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing the agency website. The State Administration for Industry and ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... he use of Microsoft's operating system Windows 8 on new computers procured by the government. Foreign antivirus companies have their servers overseas, which means information is sent back and forth to ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... are giant Microsoft (MSFT.US) revealed it is being probed for monopolistic business practices. Other major western multinationals have been probed for similar anti-competitive behavior in the latest y ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... eloped by Microsoft’s Bing team in Beijing. The US tech giant places high hopes on her to revive Bing, its search engine service that has been a non-starter since it entered China two years ago, South ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-04
Microsoft Corp. is cranking up its anti-piracy effort in the mainland, this time targeting Chinese internet start-ups. One such company in Shanghai paid 60,000 yuan (US$9,710) to settle piracy claims ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-01
Stephen Elop, executive vice president of Microsoft's devices and services division, gave a sneak peek at its new "selfie" phone featuring a 5 megapixel front camera at an internal meeting this week, ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
The Chinese government raided four Microsoft offices located in China on Monday, in what looks like an antitrust probe. Microsoft, an American multinational corporation best known for its operating sy ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
Government agents paid sudden visits to the Chinese offices of Microsoft Corp. on Monday apparently as part of an antitrust investigation, Reuters reported. Personnel from the State Administration for ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
A US judge has cleared the way for the US$2 billion sale of Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, dismissing objections raised by the team's co-owner Donald Sterling, ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella plans to narrow the software giant's operations in mobile phones, the Xbox games console and Bing search engine in a bid to sharpen the focus of its strategy, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-23
Microsoft Corp. will shed up to 18,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, over the next year in the deepest cuts in the company's 39-year history, Reuters reported Thursday. The retrenchments will ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
With the World Cup coming to an end, it is now time to look at the hits and misses of those in the predictions game. Technology titans Microsoft and Baidu and investment bank Goldman Sachs were among ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-15
