Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China
Jan 28, 2010 at 4:41pm ET by Matt McGee
Both current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former CEO Bill Gates have recently spoken out critically about Google's stance on doing business in China. (See my previous posts, Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision and Like Ballmer, Bill Gates Dings Google On China.)
Now, Ballmer is putting his thoughts in writing ... well, electronic writing ... via a post on Microsoft's new blog. Says Ballmer:
Engagement in China and around the world is very important to us, in part because we believe it accelerates access to 21st century technology and services and helps provide the widest po [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Outside US, Legal: Censorship, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Outside US
Top Microsoft Execs Get A Pay Cut
Sep 30, 2009 at 8:28am ET by Greg Sterling
Appropriately top Microsoft executives, coming off the "worst year ever" for the company, are sharing some of the pain. As PaidContent reports, the top executives at the company took a compensation hit based on the sales and revenue declines. Here are some of the numbers:
CEO Steve Ballmer $1.265 million vs. $1.34 million a year ago
CFO Chris Liddell: $3.5 million vs. $4.8 million
COO Kevin Turner: $5.4 million vs. $8.6 million
Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach: $6.2 million vs. $8.3 million
The snark impulse is pretty strong and I'm trying not to write something v [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees
Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Eric Brill Moves To eBay,
Sep 24, 2009 at 5:02pm ET by Barry Schwartz
eBay has announced they have hired Dr. Eric Brill as their vice president of research and applied science to lead up eBay's research labs team. Prior, Dr. Brill was General Manager of adCenter Labs at Microsoft and before that, he Director and Principal Researcher and head of the Text Mining, Search and Navigation Group at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft has quietly pulled his bio page but Google still has a cached version.
"Search is all about predictions, highly educated guesses about what people really mean when they type in a word like Diesel or a phrase like 'red, white and blue'," [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees
Gulli Leaves Ask.com For Microsoft Bing, Finally Has “Resources”
Aug 31, 2009 at 1:25pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Ten days ago, we reported that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after 4 years heading up their technology team in the European R&D center. Gulli announced his new plans are to continue in search, but switch ships and work for Microsoft Bing.
Gulli said he will be "leading all the engineering development for UX and verticals in Europe," focusing on Microsoft Bing's search technology and user interface. He will be working at Microsoft's London site of STC Europe nearby Carnaby Street.
What I found most interesting about his announcement post was that he, in not so many words, explained that he [...]
Filed in: Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Employees, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees
Microsoft’s Lu A Formidable Search Foe For Google
Aug 31, 2009 at 7:27am ET by Greg Sterling
The NY Times offers an extensive and flattering profile of the former Yahoo EVP Qi Lu who, in January, 2009 was named president of online services for Microsoft. Lu was deemed an unlikely appointment by some given his background not as a business and advertising executive but rather as an engineer. However, he was apparently instrumental in helping facilitate the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal.
One of the striking things about the article is the uniform praise Lu receives from former Yahoo colleages and Google's Udi Manber: "He is probably the best competition I can have.” The other is Lu's [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Partnerships, Top News
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