News tagged with ceo microsoft

Microsoft CEO's compensation down 6 percent in '09

(AP) -- The value of the compensation package granted to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer fell about 6 percent in fiscal 2009, a year in which weak computer sales cut into the software maker's profits.

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Yahoo director to step down at end of year

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. director Maggie Wilderotter plans to step down from the slumping Internet company's board at the end of this year. The resignation will leave Yahoo with 11 directors.

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created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Microsoft CEO Ballmer's salary up 4 percent in '09

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. raised CEO Steve Ballmer's salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker's profit declined 17 percent as the economic meltdown decimated personal ...

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created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microsoft interns get perks, pay, play

The same day Microsoft reported some of its worst financial results, a dozen buses left the Redmond campus. During rush hour, they headed toward Highway 520 as a phalanx of cops on motorcycles shut down the onramps ahead, ...

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created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microsoft CEO tries to sell analysts on Yahoo deal

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to improve Yahoo Inc. investors' opinions of the companies' search-advertising partnership.

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created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google, Microsoft chairmen share laugh together

(AP) -- The escalating tension between Google and Microsoft didn't prevent the companies' chairmen from sharing a moment of levity Thursday at an exclusive media conference in the Idaho mountains.

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created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Yahoo open to Microsoft deal under right terms

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive said Wednesday that she is open to joining forces with Microsoft Corp. so both companies can better compete in Internet search, but a deal would need a specific set of terms - including ...

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created May 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Keynote at CES will test Ballmer's star power

Not that he needed one, but Bill Gates had rock star Slash help him cap his performance at the International Consumer Electronics Show last year.

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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