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
... ve banned Microsoft's Windows 8 from use in government offices, citing potential security threats. In the past week, rumors have been swirling that there are some security problems with regard to the ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-07
Beijing will fine Microsoft's China unit and four other companies for exceeding their carbon emission quotas, the first such move by the city government since it launched a carbon trading scheme last ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-04
... ple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-26
... ibitor -- Microsoft -- will be launching a new Xbox One model. The US firm will make 50 Xbox One consoles available for players to try. The device is said to cost about HK$3,380 (US$434). Microsoft ex ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-25
What do some of the world's richest people talk about when they get together in Beijing on a Tuesday night? Philanthropy, according to the Twitter account of former Microsoft chief Bill Gates. China N ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
... 00 a pop. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a trove of science-fiction memorabilia that includes Captain Kirk’s chair and the robot from the movie Lost In Space. Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, who ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has decided to play hardball after all and sue rather than sell his NBA basketball team to former Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer. Sterling was banned for life ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
... form, and Microsoft’s Windows platform, Apple is deepening the integration between iOS and Mac OS to ensure users' loyalty to the Apple family of products. The move assumes significance as the technol ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
... excluded Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8 from its procurement in new government computers, a move which was explained as ensuring computer security. Beijing then asked Chinese banks to ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
... d. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have also bid around US$1.8 billion, according to other reports. The bids are being reviewed by co-owner Shelly Sterling, whose husband and co-owner Donald St ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-30
... siness to Microsoft last year. 'Unique products' Collaboration with Chinese investors and enterprises is an important element in Finland's plan to boost the prospects of its 'young innovative companie ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
... indows 8, Microsoft's much maligned desktop operating system, on government computers, citing security concerns. (To this, I'm sure users are delighted.) On May 19, the day after the US put Wang Dong, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
... ot to use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system in computers used by central government agencies, Yang said there should be no impact on the company as it could choose alternative systems for i ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
