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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrives to give his presentation at the launch of Microsoft Windows 8, in New York, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.
(photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Los Angeles Clippers Sold To Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
The Inquisitr
How Was The Team Sold? | The deal comes after a tumultuous ‘bid war’ that pitted Ballmer against the Guggenheim Group (represented by David Geffen) and Los Angeles investors Tony Ressler and Steve Karsh. Ressler and Karsh bid $1.6 billion, while Geffen bid $1.2 billion. The amazing thing...
A Microsoft and Skype sign are displayed at a news conference in San Francisco
(photo: AP / Paul Sakuma)
Microsoft Unveils Real-Time Skype Universal Translator
Newsfactor
Microsoft has demonstrated a translator that seems close to Star Trek's vision of a universal translator. On Tuesday evening, CEO Satya Nadella joined other Microsoft employees in demonstrating such a system, which will first be rolled out through the company's Skype video communications tool. | The...
Microsoft working on smartwatch - report
Independent online
San Francisco - Microsoft plans to weigh into the wearable computing market with a smartwatch, Forbes reported on Thursday. | The US technology tighten tapped into talent behind its gesture-sensing Kinect accessory for Xbox videogame consoles to help...
Microsoft to launch new smartwatch soon: report
Deccan Chronicle
Washington: Tech giant Microsoft is reportedly set to make a heart rate monitoring smartwatch, which would be compatible with iOS, Android and Windows. According to Mashable, the watch will rely on technology used by Xbox Kinect e...
Microsoft ex-CEO 'wins Clippers bid'
Atlanta Journal
Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer has reached a deal to buy the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2bn (£1.2bn), reports say. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned from the sport for life after he was recorded making racist remarks. Th...
Business buzz: Zobily introductions; Custom Air tops with Trane; Microsoft gives $80,000 to Goodwill
Herald Tribune
Zobily schedules two introductions | Zobily, a Sarasota-based company that describes itself as a social shopping referral network that attracts customers, will hold introductory sessions for business people at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Sara...
Google - Microsoft
WN / Yolanda Leyba
Google, Microsoft face take-down request overload after European court ruling
Canberra Times
People have the right to be forgotten online | Deleting personal information online is costly and time-consuming for web companies. Those difficulties are now set to be magnified i...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures while speaking during a press briefing on the intersection of cloud and mobile computing Thursday, March 27, 2014, in San Francisco. Microsoft unveiled Office for the iPad, a software suite that includes programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and works on rival Apple Inc.'s hugely popular tablet computer. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
AP / Eric Risberg
How Satya Nadella Has Completely Changed Microsoft In Just 3 Months
Business Insider
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella |   | See Also | Three months ago today Microsoft announced that long-time Microsoftie Satya Nadella would become the company's third-ever CEO. | T...
Emanuel Jumatate from Chicago, hugs his newest XBox One after he purchased it at a Best Buy on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013., in Evanston, Ill. The Xbox One, which includes an updated Kinect motion sensor, cost $500. Microsoft is billing it as an all-in-one entertainment system rather than just a gaming console.
AP / Nam Y. Huh
The Cheaper Xbox One Will Finally Help Microsoft Beat Sony In The Console Wars
Business Insider
Xbox is hoping lowering the price will put it back on track. | The newly announced circumcised version of the Xbox One that will come unbundled from the Kinect like a lit...
AP Source: Former Microsoft CEO wins Clippers bid
The Guardian
TAMI ABDOLLAH | Associated Press= LOS ANGELES (AP) — An individual with knowledge of negotiations to sell the Los Angeles Clippers says Shelly Sterling has reached an agreement to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billio...
UPDATE 2-Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer to buy NBA's LA Clippers for $2 bln -source
Reuters
(Adds information on deal, background on Ballmer, Sterling) | By Ronald Grover and Eric Kelsey | LOS ANGELES May 29 (Reuters) - Former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer won the bidding war for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchi...
Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer to buy NBA's LA Clippers for $2 billion
The Times Of India
LOS ANGELES: Former Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer has won the bidding for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchise with a $2 billion offer, a source with knowledge of the bidding said on Thursday. | Ballmer outbid two groups, one led b...
Science
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station
(photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky)
Russian spaceship flies three astronauts to ISS
Newstrack India
Tweet | Moscow, May 29 (IANS) Russia's manned spaceship carrying three astronauts blasted off late Wednesday from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre, heading to the International Space Station (ISS). | The three astronauts aboard the Soyuz TMA- 13M spaceship were Maxim Surayev of Russia, Gregory Wiseman of NASA of the US, and Alexander Gerst from t...
Technology
Eine Hand zeigt in Berlin fuer eine Fotoillustration auf einen Computer-Bildschirm mit der Startseite der Videotauschboerse "Youtube" (Foto vom 06.11.06).
(photo: AP / Clemens Bilan)
Turkish court axes YouTube ban over free speech concerns
CNET
Turkey's Constitutional Court puts the kibosh on a YouTube ban, saying the prohibition ran afoul of the country's free speech laws. by 29 May 2014 11:36 PM BST | facebook | twitter | linkedin | googleplus | more | more + email | tumblr | stumble | delicious | reddit | pinterest | digg | presented by | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wav...



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