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Media photograph Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, right, as he speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 7, 2008
(photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Facebook And Microsoft Part Ways
Business Insider
  | See Also | Back in 2007, Microsoft $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6 percent stake. It valued Facebook at $15 billion, and everybody laughed. | Now, Facebook is worth over $200 billion, and that little investment turns out to be the best-performing equity investment Steve Ballmer ever made...
This May 21, 2008 photo, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Portal and Advertising Platform Group Satya Nadella demonstrates some of the features of Live Search on a mobile device during the advance08 Advertising Leadership Forum at the company's campus in Redmond, Wash. Microsoft announced Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, that Nadella will replace Steve Ballmer as its new CEO. Nadella will become only the third leader in the software giant's 38-year history, after founder Bill Gates and Ballmer. Board member John Thompson will serve as Microsoft's new chairman.
(photo: AP / Stephen Brashear)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to get $84 million package
The Times Of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft shareholders gave a lukewarm vote of approval for CEO Satya Nadella's $84 million pay package, after an investor advisory group said the company was paying him too much. | Nadella's pay package puts him among the highest paid CEOs in the country for last year, although his p...
The Microsoft Giveaway You Cannot Miss
Atlanta Journal
“Microsoft” and “free” in the same sentence? As a general rule, not so much. | So it was with a mix of surprise, skepticism, disbelief, and, ultimately, joy that I discovered this: Microsoft is giving away 100 MP3 albums. | Le...
The Microsoft Giveaway You Cannot Miss
Palm Beach Post
“Microsoft” and “free” in the same sentence? As a general rule, not so much. | So it was with a mix of surprise, skepticism, disbelief, and, ultimately, joy that I discovered this: Microsoft is giving away 100 MP3 albums. | Le...
Federal government allows Microsoft to bring foreign worker trainees>
CBC
The federal government has quietly granted an exemption to Microsoft Canada that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of temporary foreign workers to train in British Columbia. > ...
Microsoft gets green light from Ottawa for foreign worker trainees>
CBC
The federal government has quietly granted an exemption to Microsoft Canada that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of temporary foreign workers to train in British Columbia. > ...
>Facebook Dumps Microsoft (MSFT, FB)
Seattle Post
Back in 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6 percent stake. It valued Facebook at $15 billion, and everybody laughed. | Now, Facebook is worth over $200 billion, and that little investment turns out to be the best-performing eq...
>Microsoft Experts and HIMSS Media Present Four Webinars Designed to Educate Healthcare IT Professionals
Seattle Post
HIMSS Media and Microsoft announces have created a series of complimentary webinars designed to enable healthcare IT professionals to enhance their expertise tied to analytics, mobile technology, and cloud computing topics. | Portland, ME (PRWEB) Dec...
Facebook quietly drops Microsoft Bing from Graph Search
Atlanta Journal
Facebook is no longer showing search results from Microsoft's Bing search engine on its on-site Graph Search product, as Reuters reports. In a statement to Venture Beat, a spokesperson said “We’re not currently showing web ...
Science
Hookah
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US college students believe hookah safer than cigarette
The Siasat Daily
December 12: | Many college students in the US consider hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes, despite emerging evidence otherwise, a new study has found. | Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health examined the prevalence of hookah use and described social and behavioural factors associated with hookah sm...
Technology
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013.
(photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Facebook doesn't love the idea of a 'dislike' button
The Times Of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg wants people to be able to quickly express broader ranges of feelings at the leading online social network, but a "dislike" button doesn't make the cut. | During a question-and-answer session with an audience at the Facebook headquarters in Northern California, available online Friday, Zuckerberg gave a...



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