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Google Chromebooks continue to ship in record numbers as they account for a greater percentage of commercial channel sales. ABI suggests 2014 Chromebook shipments will double from last year, making Microsoft’s low-cost Windows strategy very important for the company.
We’ll be live from Microsoft Build 2014 at 8:30am PT to hear and see all of the latest Windows and Windows Phone news.
After going through a blogger’s Hotmail account to try and confirm a leak, Microsoft has decided that maybe went a bit too far.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/a-microsoft-star-goes-to-google/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a top engineer at Microsoft(s msft), is moving on to rival Google, The New York Times reported Sunday. Agüera…
— AdMob: Some updates from Google’s AdMob advertising network…the site now sees more than 2 billion ad requests per day, a four-fold incr…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which continues to struggle to combat the perception that it may be irreversibly falling behind the competition in s…
Real-time bidding for display ads has certainly come into its own this year, and one of the early stars of the space, AppNexus, has raised a…
The tablet space is hot currently, and those anxiously waiting for a good model to appear generally fall into the Windows or Android camps. The folks at Tegatech have unveiled the first tablet to unite both groups by offering a Windows 7 and Android dual-boot tablet.
Is Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) increasingly picking its battles online? People who want to set up blogs using its Windows Live Spaces platform ar…
After more than a year of speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is finally launching its Zune brand outside the U.S. and Canada. The company s…
One word that wasn’t mentioned much — if at all — during Microsoft’s earnings call Thursday: mobile. Instead, while discussing the perform…
Mobile music has long failed to gain traction despite a tremendous amount of hype, but recent announcements about cloud-based services have reinvigorated the space. But as carriers and record labels should know, the only certainty in mobile music is that old business models don’t apply.
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is cutting additional jobs this week, marking the fourth time in a year and a half that the company has had layoffs.…
Om told us Kin sales were bad, but having only entered the retail channel a few weeks ago it is still surprising that Microsoft is killing the Kin. The phones are still at Verizon, but Microsoft is killing the European launch scheduled for this fall.
Microsoft is at the Computex show in Taipei this week touting the new embedded OS it’s producing for handheld computers. Windows Embedded Compact 7 is being shown running on prototype tablets with a flashy user interface and full multitouch support. So what is this new OS?
It is clear Microsoft is feeling the heat of competition from Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android tablets. The folks in Redmond have launched a new version of Windows 7 embedded that is clearly designed to be used in “emerging tablet” devices and other handheld gadgets.
Nevermind that big shake-up this week at its mobile unit, which has now been put under the direct auspices of CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft (…
About those online losses … no comments on the call, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executives did, of course, emphasize the company’s healthy…
Continued strong sales of the company’s Windows 7 operating system drove Microsoft’s revenue and net income up for the second quarter in a r…
On Thursday, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) posted an impressive 19 percent jump in quarterly sales, as it benefited from a resurgent search-ad market…
Microsoft today announced two new phones targeting teens and tweens. Taking a page from Motorola’s playbook, Redmond is betting that aggregation of social services will help it overcome the twin threat of Apple-Android. A quick hands-on review of the devices and my very early impressions.
When Microsoft bought Danger, the company behind the Sidekick line of phones, speculation began at once that we’d see Redmond producing its own line of phones. The speculation can end today as Microsoft is holding a press event to kick off the successor to the Sidekick.
More than two years after Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo, the two companies have gotten approval from the U.S. and the E.U. for their long-term partnership. The deal, in case you dozed off, has Bing powering Yahoo search and Yahoo selling search advertising for both companies.
Despite the company’s strong quarterly results, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executives are still expressing caution about the state of the econom…
On the back of strong sales of its new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) posted big increases in net income and revenue Thu…
When this “I’m a PC” ad cropped up this Spring, showing five-year-old Lewis transferring photos to send to his auntie (and correcting thei…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer hasn’t quite gotten the best reviews lately (Newsweek’s Dan Lyons recently called Microsoft under h…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is now providing its application marketplace to older Windows Mobile devices and is promising that 90 percent of the…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) took steps yesterday to make their Marketplace for Mobile experience even more iTunes-like.
As promised, Microsoft…
Free WiFi is apparently the gift of choice this holiday season from big online companies to their users. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will provide fre…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is cutting two percent of its 2,700 jobs in the UK (that’s about 54), as part of the 800 global cuts announced by Red…
In its third round of layoffs this year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is cutting 800 jobs across the company today. The software giant sai…
Microsoft’s quarterly earnings call just over a week ago was noteworthy for its muted optimism; after months of gloomy remarks on the prospe…
Microsoft’s ad exchange business has been fairly quiet since it bought AdECN about two years ago, but as challengers like Google (NSDQ: GOOG…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have been shedding employees for the greater part of the last year, but it’s also getting a bigger space. The company…
Investor Carl Icahn is resigning from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board of directors, saying that the company does not need an “activist” on its…
Microsoft’s sales and profits may be down sharply, but executives still said they were pleased with the company’s quarterly performance, say…
A second big day in a row for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Following on its Thursday release of Windows 7, the company surprised analysts with b…
The technology behind the first “Green Revolution” in agriculture, during the 1960s and ’70s, focused on boosting crop yields, to help feed…
Five days after after telling Sidekick customers that data stored on their phones “almost certainly has been lost,” Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) n…
Did you just see $500 million go up in smoke? Thanks to a massive data wipeout that left thousands of customers without…
It’s been a difficult year for Massive, the in-game ad company that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) purchased for between $200 and $400 million in 20…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent; the first decline in sales in i…
Is there demand for yet another social media monitoring tool? Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems to think so, saying it will begin testing a new w…
Late last year, the FCC approved a controversial plan to allow unused portions of TV airwaves called “White Spaces” for an wireless broadban…
Microsoft’s ‘Tag’ mobile app — which allows users to pull up product info on their smartphones by scanning specialized barcodes — has rece…
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s online businesses are losing money; the company’s online services business posted a $2.3 billion loss during…
With Windows Mobile 6.5 set to be released early next month, attention is now turning to the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, W…
*Microsoft* has rolled out mobile behavioral targeting across its network — albeit a bit late, since *Yahoo* extended its Smart Ads targeti…
It wouldn’t be so surprising (or newsworthy) if this was happening behind the scenes, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now openly trying to recrui…
After waiting nearly eight months since their original announcement, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will release phones based on its latest version…
Entities associated with investor Carl Icahn have sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock — or about 16 percent of their total…
While everyone has been focusing on Microsoft’s smartphone platform strategy, the software giant quietly unveiled today a new mobile phone a…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reached an agreement last month under which Yahoo Search will be replaced by Microsoft’s Bing…
Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knight…
One newspaper chain not joining the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium: Advance Publications. The owner of the Plain Dealer and Star-Le…
More cautious optimism among online ad executives: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) VP of ad platform strategy Josh Jacobs says he sees “green shoots” in…
Handmark, which develops and sells mobile apps, games and ringtones, has created an app store for Windows Mobile devices, beating Microsoft…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) just filed with SEC with some more details of its search deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Some standouts:
— The deal d…
Top executives are talking up the company’s prospects to financial analysts at the company’s corporate conference center in Redmond today. I…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer proudly rattled off a list of his company’s accomplishments over the last year at the company’s fin…
Yahoo’s stock continued to drop Thursday — and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer took time to defend the deal from Yahoo’s perspecti…
European ad buyers welcome the Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) search-and-ads deal as enhancing competition – but the mountain the pair have to…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is now accepting applications for the upcoming Windows Marketplace today as expected. To get people excited, Microsof…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) missed analysts’ estimates during the quarter — but CFO Chris Liddell nevertheless said “there are some signs that w…
The weak economy continued to take a sharp toll on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), as the company once again reported big declines in revenue and ne…
Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has officially announced it. And they are open sourcing it, as I suspected below: “Google Chrome OS is an open s…
Google’s PowerMeter Microsoft’s Hohm What it does: PowerMeter will take data from smart meters and process it into the PowerMeter interface, enabling…
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform may have more than 20,000 applications developed for it overall, but when the company launches its own m…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer apparently don’t share the same view about the near-term p…
Steve Ballmer said Wednesday that the global advertising economy has been permanently “reset” at a lower level, warning that media companies…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) believes there’s a largely untapped market in home energy monitoring, so it’s launching Hohm, an online application t…
While Google (s GOOG) has been openly discussing its yet-to-be-released online energy management software PowerMeter since back in February, Microsoft (s MSFT)…
The steady flow of executives leaving Sunnyvale for Redmond may have started up once again. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Monday that it had h…
In what could set the stage for yet another showdown with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is testing a new ad format aimed speci…
With 1 vs. 100, the live game show it launched in open beta on the Xbox last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is also pushing another TV staple…
It seems like just about every week there are new rumors of a potential Yahoo/Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) search and ad-sales partnership, and so…
Microsoft-owned online ad agency Razorfish is closing its two smallest offices in Fort Lauderdale and Boston, and will make a push into Lati…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which is trying to position Windows Media Center as the central place to watch TV shows — from the internet and fro…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has moved its My Phone service into open beta, allowing anyone with a Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 handset to download i…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is fully releasing its Content Ads product, the company’s contextual ad serving system, ClickZ reports. The company h…
Tellme Networks Founder and General Manager Mike McCue (pictured, right) is leaving the company at the end of June, according to Kara Swishe…
After months of blowing off questions about when its next operating system would be released, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has finally announced a…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is known for building itself from within rather than borrowing money to make acquisitions. That’s why its SEC filing…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer said again this week that he was interested in some sort of search partnership with Yahoo (NSDQ: YH…
In the battle for the local online market, AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) are going with a model that is heavy on listings and rati…
Updated: Twenty-eight percent of the staff at Microsoft’s in-game advertising unit was laid off in Tuesday’s round of job cuts, a Microsoft…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is laying off thousands of employees Tuesday as part of a plan to cut costs that the company
Microsoft’s online advertising arm is throwing its weight behind Brand Affinity Technologies, which is trying to bring celebrity product pit…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who famously zinged his company back in 2006 for not moving aggressively enough t…
After laying low since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bought Tellme two years ago, Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif.-based subsidiary is announcing…
In a report Tuesday, Cowen & Co. Analyst Jim Friedland handicaps the different iterations of possible Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) deals in…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt (pictured, right) may have passed on the chance to be President Barack Obama’s chief technology officer…
What a difference half a year can make. In September, with a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) purchase officially off the table, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT…
With significant drops in quarterly net income and revenue, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CFO Chris Liddell said during the company’s earnings call…
And now, a little comedy relief: The Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Digital Showcase began to wrap it up with some fun banter between comedian Dave…
Introducing former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) entertainment exec Lloyd Braun, Rick Song, senior director, eastern US sales for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT…
Hit hard by the recession, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) reported the first year-over-year revenue drop in its history Thursday — and posted reven…
Rick Song, senior director, eastern US sales for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), opened the company’s Digital Showcase — think of it as its upfront…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it has started to test new, topic-focused versions of its MSN home page — beginning with one dedicated to enter…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has gotten yet another major hospital to embrace its HealthVault online health records platform: the Mayo Clinic in…
McAdams Wright Ragen Analyst Sid Parakh expects more layoffs by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), on top of the 5,000 job cuts announced earlier this…
It was supposed to last until summer 2010, but social news website Digg has decided to end its exclusive ad-sales agreement with Microsoft (…
That’s right. Less than a week after killing plans for a pub on its Redmond campus just as it was set to open, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has ch…
The Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) talks have been one of the great soap operas of the internet world over the past year. But Jeffries & Compa…
Only three days before an eagerly anticipated employee pub was set to open at Microsoft’s new entertainment-and-devices complex in Redmond,…
Next week, the first batch of media, internet and entertainment companies will report first-quarter 2009 results, and just about all the foc…
Major League Baseball dropped Microsoft’s Silverlight for Adobe’s Flash this year, citing the media player’s higher reliability. But four da…
When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced the terms for its mobile app store one major concern was that developers would have to pay up to $99 t…
Another analyst is weighing in on the state of display advertising, and he is sunnier (in a relative sense) than most of his colleagues: In…
Looking for the next “big thing” from Microsoft’s adCenter Labs? It certainly wasn’t on display at the group’s DemoFest, an annual presentat…
Just when all the chatter about a possible Microsoft/Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) deal seemed to have finally died down, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch…
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) reported a fourth quarter loss of $3.6 billion, or $1.57 a share, hit by falling sales, particularly in its mobile han…
Come Tuesday, Yahoo (s yhoo) will step up to deliver its most recently quarterly results, which I doubt will be very much…
— GameStop rides high on used-game sales: Video game retailer GameStop’s holiday sales were up 22 percent, according to the WSJ. That’s in…
After an apt instrumental version of Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds,” a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rep explained that the call was moved from t…
Yet another sign of the times (as if we need one) … Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is laying off some 100 recruiters because it’s reducing its hiring…
Steve Ballmer may be Microsoft’s CEO, but chief software architect Ray Ozzie is the more important “man behind the curtain.” Tasked with fil…
Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) stock hit its lowest point in 10 years on Thursday — $18.74 — when the tech sector took hits from Cisco (NSDQ: CSC…
Unbelievable, really, the callousness of Yahoo’s top management. Of course this memo from Susan Decker was meant to be leaked, so we are not…
Simple if you break them down:
— Google: Not much for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) long term, except couple of billion in revenues over the next fe…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has announced its Q308 earnings, and its revenues and profits are up for the quarter. Revenues came in at $15.06 bill…
The recession and AdMob haven
Despite the chatterbugs flittering, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made clear it does not want to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Yahoo’s beleaguered st…
Despite Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying earlier today that a deal to buy Yahoo would still “make sense economically,” Microsoft wants you to know that it has no intention of doing so.
— MSN/Disney: Stage 9, the Disney-ABC-ESPN (NYSE: DIS) web production house, has done its first Europe-specific syndication deal. MSN Video…
After a mixed year that saw a failed attempt to acquire *Yahoo*, Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) top officers generally received bonuses at the low…
Well, that’s one thing they can do with all their cash… Rather than buy anyone else, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) board has authorized the c…
As recent online ad spend reports have shown, the display business has been having a tough year — and this past week’s market shocks sugges…
‘What do you know? Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), apparently stung by criticism over its latest Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign, is now ditch…
Nearly every teenager in America plays video games, according to a new survey just released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Tee…
With the heat from regulators and advertisers rising, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is trying to release some pressure related to privacy issues by cu…
Since the departure of Kevin Johnson as president of Microsoft
The Association of National Advertisers, which represents big ticket consumers advertisers such as Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple (…
As far as teasers go, this is a pretty pathetic effort to seems cute, funny and cuddly…but then, come to think of it, an ad which features…
Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) shares fell to a five-year low today, dropping below the $19 mark for the first time since the aborted takeover bid fro…
The audio on this call is very bad, so we may have to check the transcript later to see what we missed. Although the company’s outlook is se…
As the Aug.1 Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) annual meeting approaches, Jerry Yang tries the personal, public approach to counter the latest from Microso…
As Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) prepares for its August 1 board election, the company is once again repeating an the argument: it handled the Microsof…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has sent another open letter to its shareholders, in an attempt to allay any fears about renewed talks with Microsoft (NS…
Today, Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe formed an ad network spanning all four major ad serving systems — Microsoft (NSDQ: MS…
Analysts continue to unpack the ramifications of last week’s deal between Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG). First it was the antit…
If Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) can’t buy a search business, then maybe it had better build a better one. And since it was in Europe for the Canne…
As expected Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced a non-exclusive ad pact with Google (NSDQ: GOOG). In an announcement, the company says it has a…
Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) response to Yahoo’s statement about ending talks (via Barron’s):
The Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that a search pact for Yahoo and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is imminent. The news was first report…
In the latest developments between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Reuters reports that the two parties are now focused on ar…
The FTC has given investor Carl Icahn the right to buy more shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), according to Reuters. When Icahn’s stake in Yahoo…
Speaking whilst opening a new R&D center in Herzliya, Israel, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has gone on record with the gist of Sunday’s state…
Well, it didn’t exactly say that, but almost. In an internal e-mail by Kevin Johnson, president of the company
Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, sent out this memo to company employees in which he outlines the…
Every year at Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) annual online ad gatherings in Seattle, the company offers the latest update on its vision for challe…
Several years ago, I had the memorable experience of listening to Bill Gates defend the structure of the company that he built. It was durin…
For some time, handset manufacturers, such as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) have been targeting developing countries to increas…
Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) big institutional investors would have taken the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bait at $34 a share, a dollar more than what it…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is now leaning towards a hostile bid to take over Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and the announcement may come tomorrow morning,…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which was waiting for the other shoe to drop, is still waiting, but it is moving ahead with its plans to deploy Google’s…
All reports lead to this weekend, or maybe not; the game continues. As the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) deadline for a hostile takeover ends today…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is serious about not wanting to raise its bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Said CFO Chris Liddell on a possible raised bid…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said revenue for the three months ending March 31st came in at $14.45 billion just 0.3 percent above last year’s $14.…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), while publicly posturing that it could walk away from the deal, has lined up its proxy slate of directors in case it…
Ah, the logic of Wall St: As expected, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) beat expectations. The company reported net revenue of $1.35 billion, slightly ahe…
You could plausibly argue that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will release the quarterly report of its corporate existence tomorrow. Without a strong sh…
I’m happily working away in the local coffee shop using the device that very well may be my next purchase: I was…
The more Yahoo and Microsoft bicker in public and wage their war of words, the more Yahoo — at least as far…
After yesterday’s letter from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is planning to send a return letter, outlining it is not opposed to…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continue to play the cat-and-mouse game out in the open, even on the weekend: MSFT has send a…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) executives took two days last month to meet with members of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium to quell any anxiety over the…
Rumors of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) maneuvering to buy itself more time were correct: the company says it will extend the deadline for board nomina…
The launch marks Microsoft’s entry into the advertising networks space – they’ve partnered with publishers like Bollywood Hungama (entertain…
– MSN/Pakistan: MSN UK is following in the footsteps of the Frontline Club and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) (via Kevin Sites) by sending its own freel…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is now going full court press: it has sent a letter to its shareholders, outlining the reasons its board believes that “M…
Updated below: More on the Yahoo board meeting discussing the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) offer and other options:
— Kara reports it was not a…
Steve Ballmer gave an interview to BusinessWeek, where he mentioned that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) the brand will remain if the company’s proposed…
As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) waits for a response from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to its $44.6 billion buyout offer, the analysis on the two companies…
As of this evening, no serious alternative bids have emerged for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and any kind of Google-Yahoo deal would be thought to p…
Even as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) goes after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), some major exec changes are going to happen within the software giant: among t…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is putting in to place an important deal to publish clips from MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) shows on its MSN Video portal…
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Google has kept mum on the much talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal, but today the company broke its silence and posted its official…
Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) annual “Strategic Update” day is on Monday, where Steve Ballmer, CEO, and Chris Liddell, CFO, will present to finan…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), of course, since May 27, 2004. Not that this would be the new name of the combine if the deal goes through, but the gues…
In India, a Microsoft-Yahoo combine will help fill some gaps: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been far more active in the country, with investments i…
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There’s no question that Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is game-changing in the tech world. But how does it affect us? WWD writers Mike Gunderloy and Bob Walsh see different sides of the same coin, speculating on the impact on the individual web worker and independent developer.
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a $44.6 billion (£22.4 billion) offer for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) (see paidContent.org coverage and release) at…
Just when you’d think Google’s financial discombobulation would give Yahoo some rest comes this heartfelt bullet from Microsoft. On the PR newswire…
In a surprise move, Microsoft proposed today to buy Yahoo! for approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock. “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market,”
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) reported revenue of $16.37 billion in its quarter ended December 31, up 30 percent year-over-year from $12.54 billion…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has acquired a 35 percent stake in Oxigen Services India, a company that enables aggregation of recharge, bill paymen…
I’m about 20 rows back in the Palazzo Ballroom waiting for Bill Gates to deliver his eighth consecutive pre-CES keynote but Microsoft (NSDQ:…
Om just passed me the link to two contests on a Microsoft site that sells their office software to college students. I…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has rebranded its PlayForSure DRM technology to Certified for Windows Vista, a confusing move that seems more intende…
Thumbplay has signed another high-profile distribution deal, hooking up to put content on MSN Mobile — which made an announcement today abo…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has some general plans for expanding its current online services, which currently back its Zune music player and XBox…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) spin-off ZenZui will release the beta version of its mobile browser in December. I’m saying “browser” for want of a b…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is in exclusive talks to purchase Musiwave, a provider of mobile music services to wireless operators and ent…
Walt Mossberg has reviewed Sync, a system put out by Ford and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to connect digital music players to a car. The system u…
Fueled by a lights-out Q3 earnings report, a mysterious, but much-hyped mobile plan and an imminent social networking announcement, shares o…
Cnet has done an interview with Steve Ballmer, focusing mostly on the mobile efforts by Microsoft. It touches on the idea that in many parts…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wants to fulfill the needs of mobile users’ work and personal lives on a single device, the company’s CEO Steve Ballm…
[qi:053] Remember when Apple’s (AAPL) stock topped the $100 mark, powered by another stellar earnings report? It was only six months ago.…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has received a patent — “Extensible Filtered Lists for Mobile Device User Interface” — which seem intent on making…
Couple of game related stories:
— Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has bought Atlanta-based Super Computer International (SCI), a provider of…
— Google Removes Ads From Social Net Orkut: After complaints from a Brazilian online advocacy group, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has taken down ads…
From paidContent:UK: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, who is in London to woo advertisers, also launched a new UK startup fund, the…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer has been in town on a couple of disparate engagements. Telegraph.co.uk reported Ballmer was due in…
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), in an attempt to get in on the online office suite train, has bought Virtual Ubiquity, a firm that offers an online word…
The U.S, part of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG)-DoubleClick approval equation adds another chapter Thursday when execs from Google and Microsoft (N…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is going in a hyper-announcement mode: it is announcing its plans to help launch a new line of “media extenders”, whi…
MSN Video, which went live with an overhaul today, will limit its use of pre-roll video ads. In testing, the company realized that the frequ…
Brian McAndrews managed aQuantive into a $6 billion acquisition by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Now one of the Redmond company’s more expensive a…
While it seemed that all the world’s eyes were on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and its new iPod offerings, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) sought to capture so…
Mindy Mount, corporate vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft
Bebo is partnering with Microsoft to integrate the Redmond giant’s instant messaging protocol in the social networking site. Effective this…
Here’s the scene via Tiernan Ray of Barron’s: Charlie Rose interviewing Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Cisco Systems’ John Chambers at the Ma…
Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 Elite in India, and is retailing the console exclusively at Indiatimes. [via Techgadgets. There’s no mention…
Late last week aQuantive (Nasdaq: AQNT) shareholders approved the online ad firm’s sale to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today, it’s officially p…
Buried in an NYT piece about the midway point in Bill Gate’s two-year departure plan from Microsoft’s daily operations, some comments about…
Microsoft has made a sizable dent in the business market with its mobile devices, but its track record with consumers has been more of a scr…
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has made its third digital ad acquisition in the last two months: first Screentonic (on mobile advertising), then t…
TubeMogul Does Universal Video Uploading and Tracking; well not really, just seven top sites. (release) KickApps Signing Bigger Customers; in partnership with…
With an expected charge of more than $1 billion for related to Xbox hardware issues, plus its $6 billion to purchase online ad agency aQuant…
We’d reported in March that Microsoft is rumored to be planning to launch xBox Live in September. Now, Mohit Anand, Country Manager India fo…
Updated: MSN has reported early data from the Live Earth: more than 10 million streams Saturday for its coverage..it also claimed it reached…
MSN has relaunched its mobile site, and is a rather elaborate and nicely designed one (access it directly on the phone…the online version…
To be expected: the Federal Trade Commission is investigating for any antitrust concerns two big online advertising mergers: it will review…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off the new Microsoft Surface product…essentially a computer on a desktop surface. We write about it la…
Wednesday at D (cleverly disguised as a tech conference in Carslbad in some stories), Steve Ballmer is expected to officially take the wraps…
In a matter of months, online ad exchanges have gone from relative obscurity to a “must have” component for major internet players. As we’ve…
An Australian digital music store JV between Microsoft and record store Sanity scheduled to go live in April has been delayed until at least…
Microsoft doesn’t need Yahoo in whole or in part to bolster its ad business, or so Yusuf Mehdi, its chief advertising strategist, told inves…
Microsoft has another source of income from its Xbox project — selling add-on features such as extra maps for $10 a pop. It’s a profitable…
AdAge has a short interview with Joe Doran, general manager of Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, on the Microsoft-aQuantive deal…he…
Microsoft is acquiring interactive ad shop aQuantive for $6 billion in cash. The company said it will pay $66.50 a share. The move comes a d…
MSN kicked off its eighth annual Strategic Account Summit this week in Redmond, and some stories about its mixed efforts, both in online vid…
A couple of days ago Microsoft bought French mobile ad firm Screen Tonic, after talks with US firm Third Screen Media came to nought. “You n…
The rush of speculation since news broke this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo might be in merger talks is all for naught, according to the…
Microsoft has asked Yahoo to re-start talks on a possible merger or alliance, The NY Post is reporting. While Microsoft and Yahoo have held…
Microsoft has finally acquired a mobile advertising service…last year it had extensive talks with U.S. mobile ad firm Third Screen Media,…
Microsoft officials have said that Microsoft plans to sell 20 million Windows Mobile 6 units in 2008…”Microsoft Entertainment and Devices…
The Google-DoubleClick deal started the latest round of activity and spec in the online ad firm marketplace; the Yahoo-Right Media deal adde…
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has released its earnings report for the three months ending March 31st. Revenue came in at $14.40 billion for the…
Google adds another weapon to its online app arsenal with the acquisition of Marratech’s video conferencing and video new meeting software.…
Update: See the comments from both Adobe and Macromedia below.
Microsoft’s is so late to the party, and yet it keeps on partying: at NAB, wh…
Google has joined in the race to buy the big online ad firm DoubleClick, joining Microsoft and others, reports WSJ. The asking price will g…
UPDATE: Microsoft has released some detail of the Deepfish browser, via a Q&A here. Dr. Gary William Flake from Microsoft said that in order…
Last night we noted a WSJ report about online ad serving giant DoubleClick being on the block again, and ita talks with Microsoft and others…
This one will be a biggie, possibly the biggest digital media-related acquisition in the last five years if it happens: WSJ reports that onl…
MSNBC.com has launched Multimedia on Mobile, which offers news and entertainment to Windows Mobile smartphones. The downloadable application…
Microsoft has spun off a new company, called ZenZui, which makes mobile widget aps and has placed them in a touch-screen interface. If you t…
Would any ad industry gathering be complete these days without at least a smattering of attention devoted to user-gen, social networks and a…
On July 7, Al Gore is taking over the world. The politician, activist, and Oscar nominee announced (along with “Live 8” executive producer K…
Microsoft’s latest 10-Q, filed last week, has some numbers against the acquisitions it did last quarter/recently…these were announced, but…
The first effort (at least, the first public one) from Reveille LLC’s MSN Originals is up: The Big Debate. Don’t click on that link expectin…
Don’t know if it was intentional but Microsoft, which has its usual massive presence in the central hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center,…
— Zune to Add Games By Next Year: Microsoft will introduce video games for its Zune music player within 18 months…Peter Moore, a VP in th…
I expected to be in line hell before the Bill Gates keynote
So says a story in WSJ: Ford will unveil next month a hands-free Bluetooth wireless system and in-vehicle OS developed by Microsoft for its…
Saul Hansell picks up where Mary Jo Foley left last week, on the MSN vs Windows Live confusion, and some internal conflicts on which one sho…
Mary Jo Foley thinks that Microsoft has begun re-emphasizing the strategic importance of its MSN.com portal to its overall business, compare…
We are late to this one, but deserves to be mentioned: John Paczkowski at GMSV digs up some evidence that Zune will, after all, offer “real…
Well, if only because most of us will be victims of this upgrade: Microsoft has launched its much-delayed Windows Vista OS (the business ver…
The first thing the WSJ’s Page One headline about Joanne Bradford’s battle to advance online advertising — “How Microsoft Is Learning To L…
Sean Ryan, the former CEO of Listen.com/Rhapsody, has done a detailed analysis of what the latest Universal Music Group-Zune “label tax” dea…
Yes, I got them today..two of them, from MSFT/Edelman PR, to try out the sharing part. Am I excited about it? Let me put it this way: I am m…
Justin Post, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, is stoking some buyout theories again, based on his calculations of under appreciated value in Yah…
Microsoft’s reported a stronger-than-expected fiscal first quarter growth as revenue from its Entertainment and Devices business soared 70 p…
If Facebook is sold to anybody except Microsoft, the social networking site will have to pay a breakup fees to the software giant, reports N…
Peter Jackson, the filmmaker, is working with Microsoft on a version of the Halo video game for Xbox, saying he’s bored with films and “gett…
All the Advertising Week program said was “Microsoft XBOX Live!: An Inside Look at the business of advertising in video games.” That promise…
Microsoft spin-off new social-networking company called Wallop, based on technology created in-house at MSFT, is launching its service today…
We’ve already written a bit about MSN Video’s three-pronged strategy — original content, licensed (Arrested Development) and user-generate…
The Zune Marketplace is Microsoft’s latest attempt to sell music on its own and seems to borrow a great deal from Xbox Live, which has the X…
In the window next to this one, I’m watching video news reports from AP on a Flash player in Firefox. That shouldn’t be a big deal but it ma…
— BT’s UK PodShow: BT has partnered with PodShow to produce a version for the UK market. This is an adaption of PodShow+, Curry & co’s late…
Six months or so since I first heard about the MSN user-gen video project codenamed “Warhol” — I thought it would be in public beta by the…
This is from its latest 10-K, filed Friday:
During the fiscal year 2006, we acquired the following entities for a total consideration of $68…
Some more details after the initial announcement about Microsoft’s new digital media player Zune: Toshiba will be manufacturing it. Toshiba…
What Google can go with MySpace, Microsoft can retaliate with Facebook: in a hastily reached deal, MSFT will be the exclusive provider of ad…
— EMI Licenses To MSFT’s Zune: The first official content partnership on MSFT’s new music/media portable player: EMI will provide preloaded…
Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group has invested $3 million in online game publisher/ad network WildTangent, part of a new $13 million round for…
So what if Microsoft’s way behind on user-generated video? It is trying another way, using its Xbox platform: it plans to offer a consumer v…
Microsoft acquired Massive Inc. with days like this in mind: the launch of the gaming ad network’s first interactive in-game video ad unit.…
Jupiter analyst Michael Gartenberg, who was one of the analysts briefed on the Zune player prior to the official announcement, lists some of…
Continuing on our coverage of MSFT’s music announcement today (full coverage here), what happens to MSN/Microsoft’s music partners, especial…
Update: the Billoard story is open now, here.
Officially Microsoft is not saying anything more besides what I mentioned in the post below, b…
Also in Billboard magzine (the two below are about new music service), an interview with Robbie Bach, head of the new Entertainment & Device…
Microsoft has confirmed the existence of its much rumored music project (which started as a hardware rumor, that MSFT will come out with a m…
Correction: The headline and text have been corrected to accurately reflect the amount of the buyback in billions. Thanks to everyone who ca…
Well, that’s an obvious conclusion…Yahoo, which announced the delay of critical improvements its search-advertising system yesterday with…
It is kinda obvious that it would, on MSN, but Bill Gates said at the D conference a month ago that his company cannot do YouTube: “If we di…
Well, I spoke too soon and got this completely wrong…Nine months after announcing they would make their IM services interoperate, Yahoo an…
MSN’s first foray into original entertainment under its “MSN Originals” initiative is launching tomorrow…”Fan Club” is an online show from…
Updated below: The speculation will continue, until, well, it ends: Microsoft will start selling a wireless digital music and video player w…
I bet they weren’t even trying to meet any kind of deadline…in fact I would be surprised they even did anything after that announcement la…
Martin Taylor, the 13-year MSFT vet who was supposed to lead the marketing effort for MSN and Windows Live, has suddenly left the company, a…
— MSN’s new online reality show: MSN and LivePlanetLivePlanet are teaming up to launch “Fan Club: Reality Baseball,” an interactive Interne…
Microsoft said late Thursday that Bill Gates was immediately handing over his role as chief software architect to CTO Ray Ozzie and will tra…
So maybe the rumors were wrong, or maybe the talks didn’t go through: Third Screen Media, the mobile advertising firm, which WSJ said in a s…
So it is just new version of WMP…WMP11 launching in Japan…no MP3 player development as a story earlier last week made it out to be. “Due…
GOOG: Splashing a little cold water on an merger speculation , Google CEO Eric Schmidt told analysts on a conference call that partnerships…
The WSJ-organized D conference started this evening at Four Seasons in Carlsbad. A packed-to-the-gills ballroom listened to a rather lacklus…
Microsoft is setting its sights on going head-to-head with the JPEG imaging standard, similar to what it is doing in the PDF and PostScript…
[by James Pearce] WSJ reports that Microsoft’s MSN is in talks to buy mobile advertising company Third Screen Media, no price was given but…
Updated again: JP Morgan Securities has come out with a 56 page report that is bound to stir some controversy: it examines the feasibility o…
The CEO of Australia’s biggest portal Ninemsn has resigned after three years at the helm…no specific reason for Martin Hoffman’s resignati…
Updated with video below: Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo,speaking at an event in NYC, said he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a st…
Having taken “Windows” out of the English lexicon, MSFT is now doing to to “Live”..the new version of its online and now mobile interoperabl…
It is confirmed…Microsoft has bought in-game advertising firm Massive. It said it will work to use Massive’s technology for other online p…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the 700 ad execs gathered for the Strategic Account Summitt that the company would spend $1.1 billion — ne…
Microsoft’s adCenter steps firmly into the spotlight today at the company’s annual summit for advertisers, as the ad auction service, in the…
WSJ does a good job of promoting an agenda within MSFT: One faction within Microsoft is promoting a bold strategy in the company’s battle wi…
MSN is fleshing out its content strategy with the addition of “MSN Originals,” an initiative that includes investment in original content.…
Microsoft’s admission that it will invest more cash — an estimated $2 billion — in its next fiscal year starting July 1 drove the company’…
Microsoft has formed a new social-networking company based Called Wallop, based on technology created in-house, the first spinoff under an i…
Just imagine how well Microsoft’s Home & Entertainment division might have done in the first three months of 2006 if the company had been ab…
Both NYT and FT follow up on a story WSJ broke last night: about Microsoft close to buying in-game advertising firm Massive.
— NYT: A Massi…
So says WSJ…I had been hearing rumors going back to last year that Massive was going to close a $50 million mezannine round and then go fo…
So says this long-winded story from Fortune, about the changing mood at Microsoft and the increasing power of MSN on projects, as MSFT moves…
I’m now playing “rumor control”, a la “Extra”: The ClickZ story yesterday about MSN stepping away from branded entertainment deal (about whi…
Updated: Disregard the story below…see the updated version here
I am not sure this is as black and white as this story makes it out to be,…
Details of the latest Microsoft re-org were announced today, this time focusing on MSN and Windows. The Platforms & Services Division (PSD)…
Microsoft has landed its largest European contract for IPTV services and its second-largest worldwide: Deutsche Telekom will use the Microso…
Not a content company buyout, but keep in mind this plugs into MSN’s mapping and local classifieds efforts. Microsoft plans to buy Vexcel, a…
Now I really wish I’d written up my theory that Microsoft has a handheld Xbox in the works, something that’s made much more sense to me all…
Unlike Google Base, which has yet to register the kind of impact some obersers predicted, Microsoft’s Windows Live Expo may actually be the…
The $1.4 billion MSN made from online advertising last year pales next to Yahoo’s $4.6 billion and Google’s $6 billion share of the market b…
Microsoft revealed its much-anticipated Origami Project at CeBIT in Germany, showing off a new platform of devices it calls Ultra-Mobile PCs…
Napster chairman and CEO Chris Gorog blames the Microsoft partner device makers and Microsoft for Napster’s inability to make great strides…
I am a bit confused with all these changes at MSN, but will get an explanation when I meet the MSN people at our Seattle mixer later this we…
Microsoft is acquiring Seadragon Software, a Seattle-based company developing technologies that could be used across several of the software…
We’ve started our quarterly 10-Q watch with this one: So Microsoft filed its 10-Q report this afternoon, and some interesting figures on its…
Suddenly, everything looks cloudy from those windows: Q4 earnings at Microsoft grew by only 9 per cent in the latest quarter, slower than th…
BW is reporting that Microsoft is considering plans to develop its own portable digital media device to rival the iPod, rather than just pro…
[Staci D. Kramer] After the Gaming Power panel he participated in wrapped up Wednesday afternoon, Kevin Brown took the time to chat with eve…
Slightly too technical, financially speaking, for me, but you get the drift: Yahoo’s shares are in demand, following speculation that a tie-…
What is this..’99? Bill Gates was on a visit to India last week, and made some waves when he went proposed sharing ad revenues with users of…
Memo to self: don’t sit in front of the speakers during an Xbox demo, particularly one with lots of game video … A little easier on the ea…
AP will provide the clips and MSN will handle technology/ads for the new video network launching in 1Q06. Jim Kathman, head of strategy for…
Microsoft will launch games and music downloads service for the second version of its Xbox games console, reports FT. The company is hoping…
Some international moves by MSN:
— It plans to launch MSN Video service in UK by Q1 next year. It will be similar to the MSN video service…
News.com has a good analysis pitch on Micrsoft’s recent retooling of its online efforts, based on free, ad-supported services, including MSN…
Updated below with full text memos link: Microsoft is worried, very worried: in an internal e-mail, Bill Gates said the company needs to bet…
Microsoft has bought out FolderShare, a file syncing and remote content access service that helps customers access information across multi…
So many articles and blog posts that tech.memeorandum.com could be msft.memeorandum …
Russ Beattie: “Yep, for Microsoft, Live isn’t abou…
Speculative, as MSFT said at the Live.com launch today that MSN will stay, but something to ponder, in light of continued defections at MSN…
Updated below: Microsoft has outlined some details of its new online stratgey, which includes plans to offer elements of its MSN online serv…
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CTO Ray Ozzie will preside over a briefing Tuesday in San Francisco. Thought to be on the agenda: an outli…
Microsoft’s net income for FY1Q06 jumped 24 percent to $3.14 billion, or 29 cents per share, up from $2.53 billion, or 23 cents a share for…
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly chided Microsoft for a marketing plan that would have required portable device manufacturers to i…
The online book searching field will get a little more crowded in 2006 when Microsoft launches MSN Book Search, first as a vertical on MSN S…
Some fallout from the reorganization within Microsoft and specifically MSN: The highly regarded manager of MSN.com portal and content group,…
Microsoft’s new software update for its Media Center line will more closely link its forthcoming Xbox 360 gaming console into the company’s…
The JibJab team, of the JibJab political cartoon fame, have bounced from AtomShockwave to Yahoo to now MSN, for online rights to its animate…
It’s official … Yahoo and Microsoft will introduce a cluster of “interconnectivity capabilities” IM, presence awareness, emoticons and ad…
OK, yes, we get it…you all have lotsa news. Now slow down…really. Hopefully the last bit of news today: Microsoft and Yahoo are set to a…
That’s according to a story in WSJ…Microsoft has broken off licensing talks with the four big music labels, raising questions about its pl…
Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble wants some money from his bosses to buy a Web 2.0 company…no, he’s not naming it, but he says “A little mo…
Microsoft launches MSN adCenter today, continuing its game of search catch-up with the launch of its own paid search service MSN Keywords an…
This week’s Redmond reorg sent a message inside and out: It’s time to stop thinking of MSN as a content portal and to start taking it seriou…
If you’re a content provider, supplying to MSN portal, how does the reorganization of Microsoft affect your relationship or your view of MSN…
Streamlining a sprawling seven-division megacorp into three may cut down on the red tape but it will take more than that to turn Microsoft i…
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is happening this week here in downtown LA, and it is mainly technical announcments fro…
Microsoft, stung by the aggressive moves by rivals Google and Yahoo, plans to open access to its MSN and other public websites to let develo…
Tons of new functionalities in the upcoming XBox 360…and tons of them related to digital content media beyond just games: DVD playing, mus…
Microsoft filed its annual report for fiscal 2005 with SEC late last week, and some relevant numbers on MSN:
“In fiscal year 2005, MSN adver…
Microsoft has bought out a small San Francisco-based VOIP start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messeng…
MSN’s working on a new homepage (beta here) and the new site appears to be taking cues from MSN’s online RSS newsreader Start.com test bed,…
MSN is to overhaul the ad opportunities available on the portal worldwide, as part of a strategic push to boost its position in its most imp…
The trend for online debut of TV series continues: Showtime is making the first episode of its new comedy strip, Barbershop: The Series, ava…
by Rafat Ali and Staci D. Kramer: Jamdat Mobile Inc., the LA-based mobile gaming company rumored to be for sale during the last few months,…
We mentioned about the launch of MSN Filter yesterday…some more details. Adam Sheppard, lead product manager for MSN Filter, said MSN’s mo…
At MSFT’s analyst day today, Robbie Bach
Senior VP, Chief Xbox Officer, Home and Entertainment Division, gave a bunch of details on Microso…
At MSFT’s analyst day today, Robbie Bach
Senior VP, Chief Xbox Officer, Home and Entertainment Division, gave a bunch of details on the fut…
; At MSFT’s analyst day today, Pieter Knook
Senior VP, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division and Communications Sector, gave a bunch of deta…
Microsoft has its analyst day today and a bunch of news coming out of it. All the information possible is here, in its archives webcasts wit…
Microsoft showed operating income of $2.99 billion, down slighly from $3.13 billion the previous year, and net income of $3.70 billion; 4Q05…
Microsoft has announced that its Xbox Live online gaming service now has two million members and insisted that transferring accounts from Xb…
(reg. req): Every few months you’ll find a story about Microsoft courting Hollywood..this one surround around Microsoft’s pact with Time War…
Microsoft has acquired exclusive online rights for multiplayer games featuring Marvel Enterprises’ super heroes. The deal wil put Spidey, th…
That’s according to ClickZ..the rumored talks between Microsoft and adware company Claria have ended. The end of the talks as driven by conc…
As I write about earlier in May, a small but interesting interplay between the major portals, on trying to get rights to develop the online…
After weeks of reports and speculation that Microsoft’s IPTV plans have hit a snag or two, Moshe Lichtman, who runs the TV division, took t…
We get a lot of questions about the definition of IPTV. Try this one from Moshe Lichtman, corporate VP-TV Division, Microsoft: “So, one of…
Well, there still big disbelief around this story..actually, SiliconBeat, a blog for MercuryNews, first reported it as a rumor on June 16, a…
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the company was considering licensing Xbox software in a bid to expand market share, according to Thursda…
A good story on MSFT’s efforts to work closely with Hollywood…this one is about the s/w giant’s efforts to develop a movie around its popu…
In Europe, PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that EU’s competition commissio…
This will add more fuel to the controversy about Microsoft’s IPTV platform, which has come under repeated fire over the last few months: Tel…
Xbox is one of Microsoft’s pop culture successes. The company needs similar success in the musical arena. Xbox as digital media server could…
Time for Business Week to weigh in on possible delays in Microsoft’s delivery of the software to power SBC’s Project Lightspeed. Mileage var…
Microsoft will release a version of its Windows OS without the Media Player application on June 15 to comply with EU’s anti-monopoly rules.…
Supercomm 2005, taking place this week in Chicago, underscores the rising importance of television as part of the phone company portfolio. P…
Microsoft is getting a ripping for its bungled Swisscom IPTV trial…Swisscom, the European telco, confirmed that it won’t be able to commer…
Microsoft enters the second-largest internet market with the Chinese-language MSN China, content provided by Chinese partners. The portal wi…
Fair amount of poaching going on in the online media industry these days, indicative of activity in the market: now Reuters Group has appoin…
David Berlind is fisking through Microsoft’s mono-culture media strategy: “The facts speak for themselves. No single company has circled it…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to Joystiq, and among other things, talked about XBox as a media distribution channel, and getting integra…
We’ve written about it but not with this much intensity. Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo Music Unlimited are all using Microsoft’s Plays For Sur…
Or so says this story in IHT…the new slimmed-down version (without the Windows Media Player) of European edition of Microsoft Windows migh…
As expected, Microsoft has launched an IP-licensing effort, aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses. In exchange for its technology, Mic…
More from Engadget’s recent interview with Bill Gates. This installment covers the Media Center and IPTV, among other topics.Gates: “You’re…
[Staci D. Kramer] The recurring rumors about Microsoft pulling out of its MSNBC partnership with NBC Universal reminded me of a brief conver…
A few pieces of news related to MSNBC.com, over the last two days:
— First is the rumor that Microsoft is finally bailing out on MSNBC, and…
MSN took an expected hit from the pullback in Internet Access, contributing to a 5-percent dip in revenue year over year, $564 million down…
Some details from LR…Microsoft and Comcast announced they’re deploying cable set-top boxes running on Microsoft TV Foundation Edition soft…
Continuing on the digital-music-as-a-promo-tool theme, MSN Music is tying up with American Express to get MSN members to sign up for Amex ca…
Microsoft and Comcast are expected to announce details about how their joint efforts in IPTV/VOD are proceeding…
“If Microsoft TV becomes…
Microsoft is teaming up with Intel for a “Digital Joy” ad blitz to push computers as home entertainment conduits. According to the Merc News…
Still searching for an identity, MSNBC goes back to its roots with an emphasis on interactive. The network has gone blog-crazy, seemingly ad…
In Microsoft’s Q3 earnings, MSN again achieved segment profitability while growing revenues by 10 percent over the year-ago quarter, on “con…
“Contexual collaboration” is the new buzzword, folks…with the new features in MSFT’s enterprise IM client, it will have capabilities for I…
A patent infringement case filed by TV Interactive Data against Microsoft will continue…A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesd…
(via LR): An interesting interview with Bill Gates: The fundamental difference, he said, will be the demise of today’s concepts regarding c…
(sub. req.): WSJ interviews Bill Gates…Gates on his supposed neutrality in the industry: We can go to the phone people and say, “Hey, put…
Microsoft is promoting its Windows Media Center Extender devices as the easiest way to get music, photos and video from a Media Center PC to…
The full speech in audio format at today’s event is here…
The full text of the speech is up now…
Microsoft has allocated more than $20 billion to spend over the next six years in a drive to grab a share of the film and music entertainmen…
(reg. req.): The new version of MSFT’s Windows XP Media Center…launching Tuesday in LA (MSN PR people are very arrogant..they don’t respon…
Is MSN competing with parent Microsoft, on the browser and music front…Yusuf Mehdi never says it…Guardian conjures it up….
Mehdi: “We…
This follows WSJ story yesterday: For the first time, Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition is supporting multiple tuners, meaning tha…
Well, this is a big boost for the struggling audio book company Mediabay…it has tied up with MSN to offer audiobooks through MSN’s new mus…
Just In: Microsoft missed its chance to settle European Commission antitrust charges and avoid a court order to offer a version of Windows s…
The new MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player has been formally launched…it is a broadband-home-network-enabled device manufactured by Thomson…
Local Irish MSN to launch Monday…founding partners include Esat BT, Eirborne Text Promotions, IFG, VHI, Golden Pages and RTE…
Some more details on Washington Post buying Slate: Post executives are confident they are in the lead to eventually snare Slate. But the Sla…
Microsoft will tell a European Union judge the EU’s antitrust ruling forcing the company to offer a version of Windows without a video and m…
The reports about Washington Post Co. buying Microsoft’s online magazine Slate are correct, reports Seattle Times.
Despite its high profile,…
Some interesting entertainment/social networking apps integrated in the new version…
( Listen to the clip here) So said Andy Beers, director of MSN Video (at Microsoft) on a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference yesterday…
A review of the upcoming MSN TV’s new version…here’s the verdict: “If you want a decent all-around internet-capable machine and you don’t…
According to this story, The Washington Post Company is said to be close to buying Slate. The New York Times took a look but decided to pass…
Microsoft is ready to put a stripped-down version of Windows on the market if it fails this week to persuade a judge to suspend a landmark E…
Microsoft plans to take the wraps off the MSN TV2 Internet & Media Player, its latest incarnation of a set-top box, at the TechXNY show in…
Rob Pegoraro of WaPo likes it…”The important change in Windows Media Player 10 isn’t the [music] new store…It’s simply that this Windows…
MSFT ripping off local radio station’s programming skills?
Some consumer-electronics analysts question whether these early efforts will result in anything more than just another geeky gadget.
BW: Bet…
Interesting one…music, compatibility etc…
Contrary to rumors, wishes and hopes, MSN is NOT signing Beatles onto its music service, Rob Bennett, MSN Entertainment senior director told…
Microsoft must enjoy being in a market where the important thing is not how worried its competitors are, but how worried its customers are.…
MSN has launched its online music store in beta…
It is in beta, and there’s still some known bugs and issues with this release (I’m amazed…
MSFT announced details of a new relationship with e-commerce services provider Digital River. Under the arrangement, Microsoft Plus Digital…
News.com thinks the upcoming MSN Music launch on Thursday is as much about Windows as it is about selling music.
“The big business goal here…
“While Microsoft’s debut is likely to be strong, the long-term success of the service will depend on just how well-executed the service is,…
(sub. req.) Microsoft’s soft launching its online music store next week (earlier story here), as this WSJ story elaborates. In a subtle dig…
(sub. req.): GE and Microsoft have ended speculation on the fate of MSNBC… the two companies remain committed to the joint venture.
“It’s…
For once, Microsoft is planning to tout its interoperability (some would say it is just about ubiquitous monopoly): It is planning a new bra…
This according to this Rolling Stone story… the store will open to the public with somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 tracks for sale a…
Microsoft TV announced that Swisscom/Bluewin will be the first service provider to run a commercial trial of its IP TV platform.
The 600-ho…
UPDATED: see below: MSN has been threatening to launch its music site for some time now…I hoped they weren’t foolish enough to launch it…
More details on MSN’s new broadband video product, which MSN Launches New Broadband Video Ad Platform”>I noted here before…
According to data from Comscore, MSN is losing traffic to Yahoo and Google in crucial areas, such as search, e-mail, news, sports and financ…
MSN is rolling out some new services with one hand and (temporarily) taking away some with the other. It has removed the alpha release of it…
MSN has launched a new version of is video portal, MSN Video 2. The service is ad-supported..
MSN Video 2 mimics the Windows Media Player 10…
MSNBC.com wants to be your next news portal..sorta. Well, it already is, but is now going into an overdrive. It is launching a classifieds s…
No kidding, really? Anyway, these days, studios fear digital piracy more than they fear Microsoft and have slowly begun to make deals to use…
“As MSN bulks up the portal, I wonder what extras the company plans to offer paid subscribers. Couple suggestions: Co-marketing deal with Bl…
Online as well?
(via IWM) Online zine Slate, owned by Microsoft — which was put up for sale two weeks ago by Microsoft — could fetch $10 millon to $12 mil…
MSN is on a launch role: the beta version of its forthcoming MSN blogging service in Japan; local-hard-drive search; and the beta of its MSN…
Microsoft is poised to soft-launch its long-awaited online music store late next month, according to FT. That means the software giant will…
Interesting…
Seems like it, if you look at Ziff Davis Media’s DigitalLife conference in NYC in October…MSN is one of the sponsors for it (it is the “Of…
This is the non-news of the day…MSN’s Newsbot news search service, which has been around in beta since November last year, is now availabl…
Swiss luxury watchmaker Tissot SA has joined Fossil of the U.S. and Finland’s Suunto Oy in offering watches that use Microsoft’s Smart Perso…
In Q2: the previously unprofitable MSN Internet division, continuing to benefit from strong advertising revenue, posted operating income of…
Microsoft’s MSN TV division (formerly “WebTV”) has received a new patent (#6,766,524) that gives the technology giant the right to a “system…
Update: the leading contenders are the New York Times and The Washington Post, according to Howard Kurtz of WaPo.
Well this is a slightly v…
MSN has lost tons of money, but over the last year, it has finally started to see some profits. The unit began making money last fall and is…
Microsoft has formed a new group focused on the media and entertainment industry, and has hired a TV heavy hitter: Blair Westlake, former he…
(sub. req.): (Updated) Reuters: MusicNow’s Rudin said the company is finalizing licensing with music labels and expects its portable service…
Well, telematics is becoming hot again…run for cover…
But seriously, Microsoft has tied up with Fiat to develop wireless apps and conten…
MSN has fired a couple more salvos in the search wars: The company announced it acquired Lookout Software, makers of a personal Microsoft Ou…
Microsoft TV’s IPTV platform seems to be gaining some traction. Recent SBC revealed that it plans to begin “neighborhood-level” trials of MS…
MSNBC.com announced earlier this week that it has turned profitable, and this story breaks down the import of that announcement. “For Micros…
MSNBC.com’s GM Charlie Tillinghast believes advertising on its video clips will be a significant contributor to sales over the next 12 month…
Microsoft is seeking supremacy in a battle over video technologies that could determine the future of TV and emerging applications…One can…
It took eight years: MSNBC.com, the cable news and Internet venture between Microsoft and the NBC network, said Monday it achieved its first…
Microsoft’s top legal counsel said Thursday that the software giant needs further details from the European Union before it will be able to…
Microsoft is launching a homegrown Internet search tool and changes to its Internet search engine.
The new MSN Search features fewer clearly…
It’s a global economy — so quit whining about outsourcing. India’s booming middle class has $420 billion to spend. Here’s how to…
The EU has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to sell a version of Windows without media player software, just before it wou…
(reg. req.): Yusuf Mehdi, the Microsoft vice president who runs MSN, talks about the site/company: “There have been a lot of music services…
MSN has invited three advertising agencies to create bigger and better online campaigns to help improve the quality of the fastest-growing U…
Well, for starters, some interesting apps in the news aggregation space, riding on its “Newsbot” product… When delivering a list of links…
Don’t buy the hype, but Bell Canada and Microsoft have announced the creation of a new “super portal” and a subscription service to it. Esse…
Microsoft has teamed up with STMicroelectronics to develop a series of chips for consumer electronics devices that support Windows Media 9..…
Microsoft is expected to win an immediate temporary stay of European regulators’ order that the company sell a version of its Windows operat…
Microsoft is expected to release the first test (beta) version of its new Windows Media Player software today…This new version will incorp…
According to Joe Wilcox, MSN Music is not the competitor [with Apple’s iTunes] some folks in the news media seem to think it is. Nothing mak…
MSN’s go-slow-and-get-it-right-the-first-time approach, rather parent MSFT’s “version one” mentality…
A transcript of VP of MSN Yusuf Mehdi’s address on MSN’s future plans…
It’s a tempting thought that has floating around for some years now, but with Macromedia’s push into mobile with FlashLite and FlashCast, it…
So now we know why some webpages were looking funny in Opera browser…coz MSFT wanted them to…Microsoft has agreed to pay Opera Software…
The upcoming version of MSN is now being beta-tested…
The acitivity in the news search market is hotting up, despite any semblance of a business model, beyond the elusive “local advertising” etc…
A story in wake of Bill Gates’ recent keynote at MSN Ad summit…Gates believes by 2010, all media will be interactive and delivered to cons…
Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe’s steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft has gained membership in the…
MSN is working to add horoscopes, lottery results, movie times and more to the service that powers the wireless SPOT watches.
Microsoft laun…
An interview with Yusuf Mehdi, the head of MSN’s consumer portal efforts…Mehdi, who recently launched MSN Video and MSN Premium Internet a…
(sub. req.): Like a growing number of music stores online, Prince’s new music download site uses only one technology: the Windows Media form…
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is asking MSN to work together, on an industry level…”It’s important…for companies like Yahoo and Microsoft to sta…
Some more details on MSN’s NewsJunkie project…Microsoft plans to introduce a news aggregation service for general news, weblogs and plans…
Microsoft is working on a news search project called NewsJunkie, part of MSN’s upcoming news page Newsbot.
Using principles of artificial in…
The European Commission hopes for a wide-open digital media market after its proposed ruling that Microsoft cannot bundle its music player w…
Scott Moore, MSNBC.com’s president and GM of MSN news and information, has been tapped to lead a new group at the software giant as GM, MSN…
Microsoft said Friday that the second half of the year will see the launch of its online music store…it will promote its music store prima…
Microsoft and European Union regulators have failed in last-ditch talks to agree on an antitrust settlement…
The first handheld gadgets to play music and movies on Microsoft “iPod killer” software will be available in Europe in the second half of 20…
So claims InStat’s new report. “From its investment in CinemaNow, plans for online music, Xbox, the Windows Media Series 9 platform for deli…
Demands for further concessions from Microsoft have hurt the chances for a settlement between the software giant and European antitrust regu…
If Mr. Ballmer fails to reach a settlement, Mr. Monti is expected next week to order Microsoft to offer two versions of Windows to computer…
A great analysis of the implications of the EU rulings/sanctions against the software giant, especially in the digital media industry…”If…
Microsoft has broken European Union antitrust law and must face sanctions, according to a draft decision expected to win endorsement on Mond…
Microsoft is launching a wireless video delivery system for mobile devices…the software, called MobileVision, is being launched in collobo…
The regulation fluff story from MediaPost, this time on MSNBC.com…
A streaming video product launched in early January as a cornerstone of…
Instead of forcing Microsoft to sell stripped-down versions of Windows direct to consumers, EU regulators are likely to demand that computer…
Mighty difficult, at first glance…But, “while Microsoft seems to have its fingers in virtually every segment of the computer and internet…
This Motley Fool story speculates on a speculative NY Post story, on whether Microsoft might be moving to make Napster the music store of ch…
Antitrust regulators from the 15 member nations of the European Union will gather in Brussels on March 15 to discuss a European Commission a…
European antitrust regulators are considering a requirement that Microsoft sell two versions of Windows in Europe — one with the music- and…
MSN has released a raft of new products in the UK this week as part of its strategy to monetise free services such as Hotmail. The new Premi…
Many consumer-electronics makers are maneuvering to make sure Microsoft doesn’t dictate key technical standards for their industry, as it do…
(reg. req.): With or without a role in the Disney-Comcast struggle, Microsoft already is a rising force in Hollywood…It’s Microsoft’s aim…
Microsoft’s MSN has unveiled news search in several additional foreign languages…In November, it launched MSN Newsbot, an automated servic…
Microsoft has attempted to settle its long-running competition case with the European Commission by proposing that rival companies’ products…
That’s pretty much the gist of it, according to Staci Kramer. Anyway, since this is Microsoft’s baby, let them handle it as they want…
The…
The UK arm of MSN is halting the sale of pop-up ads, and has pledged to phase out pop-under formats by the summer. The announcement doesn’t…
MSN has slipped into red on an operating basis, according to its latest SEC filing following Q4 results late Jan.
(via Romenesko): An excruciatingly lengthy paean to Slate, with some customary comparisons to Salon: “It’s an endless comparison: Slate and…
European Union regulators may still be fighting yesterday’s antitrust war against Microsoft’s Media Player while the software giant marches…
Microsoft plans to start testing a new version of its Windows XP Media Center edition, a customized operating system designed for entertainm…
Microsoft’s MSN internet access service and portal reported 19 percent higher revenues for Q4 in 2003…it brought in $546 millon in revenue…
Microsoft is asking a judge to move the antitrust suit filed against it by RealNetworks to federal court in Seattle, alleging that RealNetwo…
Microsoft Japan’s MSN news local venture has merged its site with Mainichi Newspapers’ online arm…a new site will be launched in April.
Th…
Microsoft (has agreed to make a tweak to the Windows XP to change the way a user’s browser is launched by the built-in ‘Shop for Music Onlin…
A Chicago federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $512 million patent verdict against Microsoft that could ultimately force major changes in man…
An interview with Lisa Gurry, MSN Group Product Manager on the challenges facing MSN – present and future.
Q. Will customers from ISPs such…
This is Microsoft, on recent HP-Apple deal. “Windows is about choice – you can mix and match software and music player stuff,” Dave Fester,…
eBay will offer access to personalized content via Microsoft’s MSN portal. The marketing agreement, announced at CES, marks the first time t…
Bill Gates showed off it new Portable Media Center for Xbox and PC, at the CES yesterday… the company’s new software for Xbox, PC and han…
I’m swamped and need some sleep, so read the Gates love-fest below:
— The Gates speech transcript, in all its corny glory…
— Reuters: Mi…
Umm..like the 200th time…the new MSN Premium… the software costs $9.95 a month, or $99.95 a year, for a product offering a souped-up e-m…
ZDNet’s David Coursey is up in arms: Microsoft’s new SPOT wireless data watch, being introduced this week at CES, is not a finished product…
(sub. req.): A very interesting story on Microsoft’s steps to put on a consumer friendly face…case in point, MSN. Yusuf Mehdi, head of MSN…
(sub. req.): At CES later this week, Intel and MSFT plan to announce a series of products that they say will make it easier to use PCs to or…
Not too enthused about Spot, are we? “People perpetually swim in data provided by their Web-connected computer, cellphone, and PDA. No one’s…
(sub. req): Mythic Entertainment, a small developer of a popular online videogame is suing Microsoft for trademark infringement…the suit a…
Microsoft will use January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to announce availability of wrist watches and wireless services ba…
MSN Encarta Premium is the new premium version of its reference library, available as a stand-alone MSN premium Web service offering and wil…
Well, on my earlier point on MSNBC.com relaunch, Operahead Kamlesh Thakker confirms it in the comments: the relaunched site is locking out O…
Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research has been testing a beta version Microsoft’s new SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology) wristwatch: “…
Microsoft will introduce a “club” service for AT&T Wireless subscribers who own a Motorola cell phone running the software giant’s operating…
MSN Premium, the broadband Internet service from MSN, will debut in early January at CES. MSN Premium, which is based on the new MSN 9 code…
(via LostRemote): With streaming ads in between content and a Microsoft Passport login required…
Related:
— MSN, Cable & Wireless Feam F…
MSN has lined up Cable & Wireless America to stream third-party advertisements for its upcoming free, online video service.
It will use tech…
“There’s only one obvious reason why Microsoft would launch its own service, and that would be because it felt the need to support its propr…
AT&T Wireless also announced a deal with MSN (see the RealNetworks’ deal below): it would offer Microsoft’s MSN Mobile services through mMod…
Microsoft’s MSN online service reached an important milestone when it posted its first quarter of operating profitability–but that doesn’t…
Microsoft has at last confirmed plans that it will launch its own music-download store next year…the service will be offered through MSN.…
Microsoft has started testing an international news search service in competition with Google’s…MSN has unveiled a test, or beta, service…
In a demonstration before European competition regulators on Friday, RealNetworks showed a little-known version of Windows – Windows XP Embe…
Microsoft’s MSN Internet division posted its first-ever quarterly operating profit of $58 million since it was launched eight years ago, acc…
The Microsoft anti-trust case in EU is at a crucial point” the giant’s foes including RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems will argue today tha…
Joe Wilcox has the download on how enterprise information tools are integrated into Office 2003: “These sidebars share three things in commo…
Swisscom subsidiary Bluewin will test Microsoft’s new Internet-based TV technology to deliver video on telecom systems and into a fraction o…
Microsoft has released Windows Rights Management Services (RMS), an add-on to Windows Server 2003 that allows organisations to add digital r…
A good overview story on Microsoft’s IPTV initiatives…
It is a curious move (see below), but if you think about it, it makes sense: from the looks of it, the information unit will be ad-driven, w…
This is a curious move from MSN: it is splitting into two units, one to take control of Web communications while the other develops its info…
Microsoft says it will launch software for a new portable media device to be launched next year that will allow users to listen to music and…
I’ll be sifting through the Longhorn stories and will detail the implications the new Wondows version from MSFT has on media companies…
De…
Read this one carefully….Microsoft wants to get inside your mobile phone, and Vodafone can help… Has Microsoft finally established a bea…
Microsoft reported that revenue at its MSN websites and online service rose 15 percent, to $491 million, and that MSN division had an operat…
The U.S. Department of Justice and state prosecutors yesterday told a judge they are “concerned” about a music-buying feature in Microsoft’s…
(Real Audio Stream): Dan Sheeran, senior VP of RealNetworks talks about how MSN’s decision to give away free broadband content will have on…
MSNBC.com President Scott Moore, on the decision to launch the free advertising-supported streaming video service: “We came to the conclusio…
Microsoft has launched a free streaming video service called MSN Video to its MSN Internet subscribers, in hopes to compete with others…th…
A good overview article on MSFT’s effort in areas such as smartphones, gaming consoles and iTV…of course, the s/w giant’s goal is to provi…
Microsoft says it will develop software to deliver standard television over the Internet, targeting telecoms operators wanting to expand the…
Staci Kramer interviews Maggie Wilderotter of Microsoft: “In some cases we’ll aggregate for subscription because the customer sees value eno…
Fifteen games developed by Microsoft Game Studios are now available online for a fee from Yahoo…players signing up for unlimited monthly o…
Since everybody is quoting “sources” on this story, is it real sources anymore? Funny.
Anyway, Reuters Group suddenly has emerged as a hub f…
Or so writes Joe Wilcox, Jupiter’s MSFT analyst, on his blog. “So far, [for Windows version of music services] WMA is emerging as the prefer…
A brilliant essay by Emily Bell, on Microsoft’s real motives behind closing chat rooms: “Social connectivity through the internet is an awes…
Microsoft has created a new business unit that will develop product packages for the fledgling market of content delivery to mobile devices:…
“The whole point of chat is anonymity, and this is a longstanding Internet tradition. More importantly, even the suggestion that the company…
In an unprecedented move, MSN will shut down most of its chat rooms, because of concerns about child safety.
It is closing its chat rooms in…
(sub. req.): “As Microsoft grows, it sets its sights higher and higher, and media is the most direct way to get there. Microsoft needs to su…
More details on MSN’s decision to start charging for mobile access to MSN: Services that will be affected by the subscription plan include c…
Not necessarily a content story, but important, nonetheless: MSFT’s decision to go full-blast into the search market, against Google and Yah…
Microsoft will roll out its Xbox Live online gaming service in six new western European markets next month as it looks to extend its lead ov…
As of December 3, wireless access to Hotmail will go from free to $19.99 a year.
Microsoft’s surprise decision to submit Windows Media Series 9 as a standards candidate to Hollywood underscores the software giant’s ambiti…
(subscription required): John Battelle nails it [“it” being the rise of search, so to speak] down: “It proves something else, too, about thi…
As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management i…
Microsoft is unveiling “MSN Premium,” a new version of its Internet service: new software features include a digital photo editor, smoother…
Microsoft has been unveiling a steady and growing stream of commercial content partners who are integrating professionally-oriented wares in…
Microsoft is launching a European pay-as-you-go (a la carte) music-download service modelled on the iTunes service, in collaboration with B…
With pressure from European antitrust regulators mounting, Microsoft’s bid to make its multimedia technology a worldwide standard may be run…
MSN UK, which launched a range of subscription services last year, has seen poor uptake on it, and the numbers are in the low tens of thousa…
And since Windows Media Player is sitting there and doing nothing… Microsoft’s MSN unit is considering the launch of a number of advertisi…
Bill Gates said his company is exploring ways to develop a music download service similar to Apple Computer’s iTunes that would tie into the…
: Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate VP for the MSN outlined plans for MSN at the company’s Financial Analyst Meeting. Mehdi said these effort…
(Culled from various earnings reports): MSN’s ad revenues have jumped up unexpectedly this year, according to the Q2 results released by Mic…
MSN International is undergoing its first major restructure, shifting focus towards countries and services that will generate more revenue.…
Microsoft said it will announce its membership in the Internet Home Alliance (IHA) on July 22. The IHA brings together companies from a wide…
An interview with Jacob Weisberg, the editor in chief of Slate, who has taken Slate to profitability…”People are realizing this is a busin…
Microsoft is expected to unveil today an upgraded version of its Pocket PC software, called Windows Mobile 2003…the new software has conte…
Microsoft announced a strategic alliance with Bell Canada that will merge its MSN’s Canadian website into Bell’s similar service called Symp…
If you remember the wave of stories on Sony about a couple of months back (check our dedicated Sony page for more stories), this will sound…
Microsoft is still angling for a major role in the digital film business. The company is downplaying its ambitions until it finds out whethe…
“I also am concerned about some of the promotional aspects of the deal, particularly those involving NPR’s cross-promotion of Slate’s Web si…
New additions to the service include a caching system that speeds Web page downloads and a revamped e-mail box with a spam-filtering system.…
While Apple Computer grabs publicity for its new 99 cent music download store, Microsoft is quietly preparing for a counterattack by improvi…
Amazon.com is expected to announce a deal with Microsoft on Thursday to use the latest version of the software giant’s digital media technol…
MSFT is e-mailing users of MSN Calendar, an online calendar service, telling them they must subscribe to MSN 8 by June 24 or lose access to…
Microsoft on Thursday released a version of its MSN Internet service for the Mac OS X operating system as the software giant scrambles to ad…
Verizon and Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled their long-awaited joint DSL service for $34.95 a month, with a $5 discount for customers of certa…
(via Frank Barnako): MSN Radio Plus, a new radio subscription service, in competition with services such as Yahoo Launch and RealOne RadioPA…
Microsoft on Thursday introduced a more flexible pricing plan for its Xbox Live online video game service, including a planned free trial pe…
Microsoft this week showed off a new “TV client” for Windows XP Media Center Edition, which allows content stored on a Media Center PC to be…
MSN is planning to offer its photo service only to subscribers of MSN 8, an Internet service that bundles online services such as e-mail and…
Microsoft is readying a new version of Xbox Live with advanced community features such as voice chat and locater services that operate indep…
Following yesterday’s announcement of RealNetworks buying Listen.com, analysts predict Microsoft is interested in acquiring Chicago-based Fu…
Like America Online, Microsoft’s MSN Internet service is feeling the pinch of competition from both high-speed and budget dial-up ISPs…how…
MSN is Europe’s biggest portal, and it is widening its lead, according to this story. Advertising on MSN’s 17 sites across these regions has…
A Q&A with Dave Fester, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Digital Media. According to him, his company’s Windows Media technology balan…
(5-page PDF file): An analysis of the recent move by Microsoft of integrating business information services such as Factiva and Gale into th…
Microsoft, which has just relaunched the latest version of its Office suite of programs, is positioning it as the central base for businesse…
Microsoft, Sony Set for European Online Gaming War: Sony and Microsoft will open a new front in their computer games battles in Europe later…
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Passes 350,000 Subscribers: Microsoft has signed up more than 350,000 subscribers worldwide for its Xbox Live online v…
Microsoft Calls on T-Mobile: Microsoft and T-Mobile will cooperate in a series of initiatives that will bring the computer giant’s software…
Will Windows Media 9 Catch On?: Should Media 9 become the dominant format, you can be sure that Microsoft will follow the same path that it…
Vodafone to Offer MSN Services: Vodafone Group plans to launch a service allowing its U.K. subscribers to tap into their Microsoft MSN e-mai…
Microsoft and Music Choice Team Up to Offer Subscription Music Services in Europe: Music Choice Europe, a digital music broadcaster, has tie…
Gates: News on Every Wrist: Staci Kramer’s take on Bill Gates’ plans for a new era in which we rely less on the computer — and more on mobi…
MSN links with Paul Allen’s Charter: Microsoft’s MSN online content service expanded its relationship with Paul Allen’s cable Internet servi…
Microsoft Says Sales Strong for Xbox Online System: Microsoft said that demand for the online add-on to its game console system remained str…
Microsoft, BT Team on MSN, Broadband: Microsoft’s MSN 8 browser and BT’s broadband access, that’s the deal. MSN 8 is Microsoft’s subscriptio…
Microsoft’s New Media Player Adds Subscription Services: Windows Media 9 Series, the new digital media platform launched on Wednesday by Mic…
Microsoft In Talks With Magazine Publishers for Providing Content to TabletPC: Microsoft is in talks with major publishing companies to make…
MSN To Offer Separate Subscription Browser: Microsoft is unveiling a new version of its MSN service that packages Internet access with an en…
Microsoft’s Passport May Save Content: For all the criticism Microsoft’s Passport authentication service may have gotten, it may be a good c…
Get Ready to be Tethered: Newsweek does a story on “Palladium”, the new digital rights management and cryptography system being developed by…
MSN on VZN: MSN has tied up with Verizon to offer high-speed broadband access by next spring. Microsoft would put $500 million into research…
