Three of Microsoft Corp’s top 20 investors are pressurizing the board to ask Bill Gates, the co-founder of the 38 year old software company, to step down from the company’s chairman post….
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Nokia engulfed in Indian Tax dispute prior to Microsoft Deal
The Indian Tax Authorities have frozen some of Nokia’s India assets last week following a tax dispute. However, the Finnish handset maker on Monday has announced that it has regained access to…
Apple Inc. leapfrogs Coca-Cola to gain most valuable global brand title
According to the latest report by brand consultancy firm Interbrand Apple has outrivaled Coca-Cola to become the most valuable global brand of the year. Coca-Cola, which held the top position for the…
Analyst: Sony PlayStation 4 to outsell Microsoft Xbox One by half a million units
According to Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter Sony is likely to sell around 1.5 million units of PlayStation 4 on launch day while Microsoft will be able to sell only about 1 million…
Evernote goes all-in on physical post-it notes
Evernote, the maker of the popular note-taking software which allows users to create and synchronize digital notes in gadgets, has recently unveiled a retro image of future post-it notes at its annual…
No new BB10 devices as BlackBerry mulls Fairfax buyout bid
For BlackBerry 2013 has turned out to be one of the worst years in history with quarterly losses in tune of over $900 million and just $1.6 billion revenue. While announcing BlackBerry…
Ballmer bids farewell with a heavy heart
After leading the world’s largest software company, Microosft, for the last thirteen years, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally said goodbye to the company. Ballmer, at his last companywide meeting on Thursday,…
Judge refuses to dismiss Google email scanning lawsuit
This is for the second time in a row that a federal judge has refused to outlaw a lawsuit against Google accusing the tech giant of improperly scanning customers’ email content to…
Ford’s Alan Mulally to replace Steve Ballmer as new Microsoft CEO?
Stephen Elop – Nokia’s CEO – is one of the most likely candidates to fill in the void left by Stephen Elop, but according to reports Ford’s Alan Mulally has gained enough…
Apple, EA deny Plants vs. Zombie 2 payoffs
Following yesterday’s revelations that EA was paid ‘truck loads’ of cash by Apple to delay the launch of Android version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, both the companies have taken a defensive…
EA reshuffling its corporate managerial positions
A week after the appointment of Andrew Wilson as EA’s CEO, the company is all set for an executive reshuffle. The leaked internal memo, which Venture Beat obtained, points to a company-wide…
Once valued at $77.7 billion, BlackBerry sold for petty $4.7 billion
The Canadian Smartphone maker, BlackBerry, has agreed to a takeover deal with a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. for USD 4.7 billion. Looking at BlackBerry’s years of falling fortunes and…