executives company in news
Microsoft's Zune tunes into video
News Microsoft executives have been making the rounds at talent agencies and production companies in recent months in hopes of licensing exclusive original video programming for the portable media player, which has struggled to gain traction in the... [12 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Executives and board members tried to soothe dissenting investors, insisting Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of... [04 Aug 2008]
Microsoft misses Windows Mobile target
News For some time, executives had been saying the company would ship more than 20 million copies in the 12 months ended 30 June. Microsoft said Wednesday it missed its targets for Windows Mobile, shipping 18 million copies of the mobile phone operating... [31 Jul 2008]
Oracle adds to SAP lawsuit allegations
News Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against rival SAP this week, claiming in an amended complaint that SAP's CEO and other top executives were aware of alleged illegal downloading of proprietary software and documents before, during and after its... [30 Jul 2008]
Samsung storms second quarter results
News But despite its strong sales in the second quarter, Samsung executives told investors and analysts that it expects the worldwide economic slowdown to affect sales in the second half of the year. The South Korean company, which sells TVs and other... [28 Jul 2008]
Windows 7 on track, says Microsoft
News The company has officially said it would ship by January 2010 but top executives have also said from time to time that it would be done by the end of 2009. Microsoft Windows unit head Bill Veghte said on Thursday that Windows 7 development remains... [25 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News RIM has peppered its smart phones, already popular with executives, with video cameras and music players to lure more retail customers, and now about 40 per cent of its 16 million users are either small and medium businesses or consumers. [16 Jul 2008]
And the designer of the next great gadget is? - You
News About a third of the 661 executives questioned worldwide thought that by 2013 the most innovative ideas would come from customers and more than half thought that consumers would be linked to product design. [11 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News The majority of IT leaders in the UK, 60 per cent, gave the thumbs down to their firm's environmental credentials, according to a survey of 8,000 executives by data centre networking company Brocade. Despite this only 37 per cent of the UK IT... [08 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! said no to Google before Microsoft bid
News executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns, one day before Microsoft made its takeover offer earlier this year, according to court documents made public on Monday. [03 Jun 2008]
Microsoft to woo online searchers with cash back
News In video messages, the chief executives of Zappos.com and Overstock.com praised the move. Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday at the company's advance08 advertising conference: "The one you'll see us particularly invest in in a major way is a... [22 May 2008]
Microsoft plans to go it alone online
News offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone. He said: "They are not gaining share today, for sure," before going on to discuss where Microsoft itself is going, outlaying the company's key efforts... [07 May 2008]
Skype trialled on Java mobiles
News However, at the same time, executives made it clear the software is preliminary and subject to significant limitations. Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said is a significant... [30 Apr 2008]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News as a way to compete with arch-rival Google in the internet search and advertising arena but company executives have repeatedly said they have limits to what they are willing to pay to get a deal done. [25 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight
News Around half of the managers and executives gathered in the room raised their hands. Silver said he recommends IT executives do use Vista - but on an attrition basis, so that, as PCs with Windows XP are retired, they are replaced with PCs running... [11 Apr 2008]
Keep updated for stories matching executives company in news via RSS
