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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer calls it quits, to retire within a yearMicrosoft announced on Friday that its chief executive Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months, once his successor has been chosen, bring…
... was forced to take a $900 million charge on unsold inventory ... -
Microsoft permanently slashes price on struggling Surface Pro to $799Microsoft's Surface tablet lineup, which has thus far failed to gain traction against Apple's iPads, saw a permanent price cut this week, most notabl…
... the company already took a $900 million charge on unsold Surface ... -
As Google's Android tops 1B activations, next version gets named 'KitKat'Google's Android operating system has now passed one billion total device activations, the company announced on Tuesday, and the milestone comes as t…
... announced that it had seen 900 million total activations to date ... -
China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo agreements predicted to drive 35M additional iPhone sales in 2014If Apple were to reach agreements with carriers China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo to offer the iPhone before the end of the year, it would increase the com…
... 's addressable market by about 900 million total subscribers, providing a ... -
Microsoft starts buying used iPads for $200 Microsoft Store gift cards, pushes SurfaceMicrosoft announced on Thursday that it has initiated a limited time offer which allows iPad owners to trade in their old tablets for at least a $200…
... company had to take a $900 million write down for unsold ... -
Microsoft outs new Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 in latest pitch to tablet generationMicrosoft on Monday used a media event in Manhattan to show off the next wave of its Surface devices, doubling down on an effort to simulate Apple's …
... better, and Microsoft wrote down $900 million on the initial run ... -
Microsoft signals it's committed to Surface hardware for the long haulThough Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on its Surface tablets, the company made it clear on Monday that it has no intention of bac…
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Shifting currencies lead to 'stealth' price drop for Apple in emerging marketsAs emerging market currencies fall against the U.S. dollar, Apple appears to have chosen not to raise its prices, possibly signaling Cupertino's inte…
... one year ago, RS 81,900 ($1310). Since it is improbable ... -
Shifting currencies lead to 'stealth' price drop for Apple in emerging marketsAs emerging market currencies fall against the U.S. dollar, Apple appears to have chosen not to raise its prices, possibly signaling Cupertino's inte…
... one year ago, RS 81,900 ($1310). Since it is improbable ... -
Poor Windows 8, Surface RT performance means pay cut for BallmerMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his pay docked this year as a result of the disappointing performance of the company's Windows Division over the past…
... demand. Microsoft eventually wrote down $900 million worth of unsold inventory ... -
The mysterious failure of Apple's iPhone 5cLess than a month after it first went on sale, Apple's refreshed, moderately enhanced iPhone 5c has been targeted as possibly being a failure in scor…
... shipments to be less than 900,000 units. Days later, Microsoft ... $853 million, less than the $900 million charge it had written ... -
Apple's App Store hits 1M options, iTunes Radio users play 1B songsThe iOS App Store now has more than a million applications available, Apple announced on Tuesday. And the recently launched iTunes Radio has already …
... downloads. That's up from 900,000 and 50 billion downloads ... -
Impressions: Working with Microsoft's Surface 2 & Type Cover 2In positioning its Surface tablets against the iPad, Microsoft has attempted to convince consumers that its devices are better built for productivity…
... the company, which took a $900 million write-down on unsold ... -
Free iOS, Mac apps to hide nearly $1 billion of Apple's new cashAfter making OS X Mavericks a free update for Mac users and converting Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand into free bundled apps …
... it would hide an additional $900 million from next quarter's ... Apple expects to defer about $900 million more than it did ... -
Google, Samsung and others sued by Rockstar consortium over Nortel patentsAfter losing an auction for Nortel's cache of patents in 2011, Google is being sued by the Rockstar consortium, of which Apple is a major member, for…
... out a first bid of $900 million in 2011, which quickly ... -
Apple-backed patent consortium sues Google, major Android manufacturersA patent holding company backed by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Sony, and Ericsson has filed the first round of lawsuits based on patents the group …
... stalking horse bid with a $900 million offer. The company eventually ... -
Poor Online - Pickup at Store Process<p>My order was processed at 5:48am EDT.</p> <p> </p> <p>My order for the iPad and a case was processed as single order. At 6:39am I received …
... card has two charges for $900 in play awaiting a formal ... -
Apple now sitting on $10B in deferred revenue, more than Samsung or Google earned last quarterApple reported net earnings of $7.5 billion for the quarter ending in September, but it also amassed more than $10 billion in deferred revenues that …
... a faster rate: an estimated $900 million in additional deferred revenue ... income in the quarter, around $900 million more than usual. In ... -
Microsoft Surface ad fails to Excel at math, according to Apple's NumbersLess than a month after a Microsoft PR executive dismissed Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote productivity software as "watered down imitation apps,"…
... was similarly forced to erase $900,000,000 of its earnings ... -
Former Microsoft CTO creates beautiful culinary app exclusively for iPadMicrosoft's former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold loves both science and food, a combination that resulted in <em>Modernist Cuisine</em>, a…
... tablet, then reported writing off $900,000,000 in unsold Surface ... -
Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch sells 800,000 units in 2 months [u]Since its debut in late September, Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch has sold 800,000 units -- far more than the 50,000 originally claimed by an erro…
... date are between 800 and 900 units, according to a story ... -
Google Play Newsstand launches on Android, coming to Apple's iOS in 2014Android on Wednesday received its counterpart to Apple's own iOS Newsstand in the form of Google Play Newsstand, a news and magazine subscription hub…
... Play Newsstand has about 1,900 free and paid publications, which ... -
Jury awards Apple $290 million in patent infringement case with SamsungA jury of eight granted Apple $290 million in damages from rival Samsung on Thursday, in exchange for the South Korean electronics maker copying the …
... awards from Samsung to over $900 million. The verdict comes in ... landmark patent dispute to over $900 million. Comparison of Apple and ... -
Jurors credit CPA witness for Apple's $290M victory in Samsung patent retrialApple's expert witness on damages, a certified public accountant from Chicago, was the person who sealed the iPhone maker's victory in its patent inf…
... , Apple has won more than $900 million in damages from Samsung ... -
Bizarre Microsoft Windows 8.1 ad pleads: "Honestly, it works for work"Rather than correcting its Surface billboards with Excel math errors, Microsoft appears to be pleading with the public to take Windows 8.1 seriously …
... in dismal sales and a $900,000,000 write off of ... -
Apple, Inc. valuation passes $500 billion, half the market cap imagined last yearDespite reaching a new peak share price for 2013 that pushed Apple's market capitalization above $500 billion, the company's valuation remains where …
... last September to just under 900 million shares today. Rather than ... -
Roundup: Wireless charging options for Apple's iPhoneApple holds a bevy of patents on methods for broadcasting power to devices wirelessly, but the technology has yet to make its way into a shipping pro…
... aesthetic reasons. Nokia's DT-900 wireless charging plate is a ... -
Editorial: 2013 was a terrible year for both Apple's competitors and its media criticsTech blogs and mainstream media reports in 2013 consistently presented Apple as beset by a series of unsolvable problems, from flagging sales and sli…
... destroyed itself, resulting in a $900 million write-off that was ...
