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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at Code Conference on Tuesday and talked about why he owns a large position in Twitter. At one point Ballmer owned 4 percent of the company, but he de

Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, and new owner of some sort of sports team, is still pretty serious about hardware. In an interview with Reuters, Ballmer indicated that his team, the one he

Yesterday, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer exited the company’s board. It marked the end of an era for the software company, and showed, simply, how much the technology industry has changed s

Steve Ballmer, best known for his long tenure as the CEO of Microsoft, is reportedly set to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2 billion, according to the LA Times. Previously, he

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley today published an interview with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, one of its key executives and a candidate to be its next CEO. The discussion as written focuses on the le

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was not forced out of his role at the company, but its board did hasten his exit, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, whose sources include Ballmer himself, a

Wrapping its analyst meetup, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer revealed his largest regret regarding product choices: Missing out on phones, which he claims has harmed Windows itself. If Gates was late

A story published by Bloomberg floats the idea that Microsoft might spin off its Xbox business, which it calls "more likely [following current CEO Steve Ballmer's] exit." The publication values Xbox a

Microsoft announced the eventual exit of its CEO a week ago today, and its stock jumped to more past the $35 mark before settling at $34.75. At one point, Microsoft was worth $18 billion more than it

There are whispers bouncing around Silicon Valley that a Google executive might be selected as Microsoft's next CEO. The concept isn't out of the question, especially following Marissa Mayer's move to

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/steve-ballmer-to-retire-as-microsoft-ceo-within-12-months/">he will retire</a> in the next 12 months. His su

Microsoft is a company struggling to be reborn, but its new trajectory is something Ballmer steered. Were mistakes made under his tenure? Certainly. But that doesn't mean Ballmer isn't leaving on a hi

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that within 12 months, he will exit as the company's leader. A special consortium at the company will work to find his replacement. And that person won't be

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has internally admitted that Microsoft built too many Surface RT units. We already knew that. That overproduction cost the company $900 million in its most recent quarter,

Bill Gates is not coming back to Microsoft as its CEO. He’s not. He’s said so again and again. And yet, today, some unsourced rumors began to circulate that the man was coming back to manage the c

Google Glass is finding its way to developers and others and the reaction has been, well, predictable. So far, there are those who think that Glass will absolutely change the world, that it’s o

Just as Google is known for giving away <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/28/chromebox-joins-nexus-7-tablet-q-and-phone-in-googles-io-swag-bag/">free devices to I/O attendees</a>, Microsoft also

At Windows 8 launch event, Microsoft co-founder and CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer">Steve Ballmer</a> took the stage to discuss Windows 8 on desktops, laptops

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Microsoft">Microsoft</a> capped off decades of regular growth with their first <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/19/microsoft-posts-192m-q4-2012-loss-because-