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Gone in a Flash: Seattle Tech Bloggers Abruptly Leave Business Journal for All-New GeekWire

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT

After spending the past two and a half years building the Seattle technology news site, TechFlash, Todd Bishop and John Cook have broken ties with the Puget Sound Business Journal and have started a site of their own.

Bach and Allard Out at Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division [Internal Memo]

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Microsoft is reorganizing its Entertainment and Devices Division and when it’s finished, the two people who have largely defined the business unit for the past few years will be gone. EDD Group President Robbie Bach and J Allard, its senior VP of Design and Development, are leaving those positions and Microsoft as well. After the jump, the full text of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s memo announcing the moves.

Liveblogging Microsoft’s “Project Pink” Party–Plus Video! Will It Be Phonetastic?

Drake Martinet in Social on April 12, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

All Things Digital will be liveblogging today’s Microsoft “social” event beginning about 10 am PT. It is reportedly about new mobile devices the social giant will release in an effort to play catch-up with Apple and Google. So, grab some coffee, pop that waffle in the toaster and keep this tab open to get the info as it breaks live from San Francisco’s Mighty event space.

CES: Steve Ballmer Keynote

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Steve Ballmer is delivering his annual state-of-Microsoft address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight–the second he’s given since taking over the duties of former CEO Bill Gates. If anything like last year’s, Ballmer’s address will offer a broad overview of Microsoft’s consumer strategy for the year, touching on everything from the company’s hardware-software ecosystem to its home entertainment offerings. Likely to figure prominently in tonight’s address: Windows 7 and the new touch-enabled PC form factors it has evidently inspired; Bing; and Natal, Microsoft’s controller-less game control system, which will launch in time for the 2010 holidays.

Live From Redmond: Microsoft's Turner, Bach, Mundie Talk Strong, Play Games and Introduce Us to HAL

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm PT

While Microsoft COO Kevin Turner did a kind of modified cheerleading act at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach played the teenage boy and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie the voice from the future. It included Bach playing ball with Microsoft’s new motion-sensing, controllerless Project Natal and Mundie introducing a very creepy digital assistant with more than a passing resemblance to HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting Today: Billion-Dollar Belly Flop With a Side of Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2009 at 7:59 am PT

The fun never stops at Microsoft, it seems. Well, not fun–more like a long march of khaki-clad Softies. They will be on display bright and early this morning at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, a cavalcade of top execs at the tech giant blabbing away. Big topics? I am interested in the recent billion-dollar revenue miss in earnings and, of course, more details about the Yahoo search deal. BoomTown will be there covering it in person, natch!

Amazon Buys Netflix? Microsoft Is a Much Better Guess as a Potential Acquirer.

Kara Swisher in News on July 14, 2009 at 3:37 am PT

Yesterday, shares of Netflix got their semiregular rocket boost–with its stock up more than five percent to close at just over $42–from rumors that Amazon was interested in acquiring Netflix. Oh, it’s a seemingly dreamy match–the top online retailer snapping up the upstart U.S. mail-order DVD movie and television show service. But there are some serious issues in an Amazon-Netflix marriage, so those interested in seeing the independent company in the embrace of a larger one might want to consider a more suitable and very interested candidate: Microsoft.

Sinofsky Named Windows Division President (Official Announcement and Memo)

John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm PT

Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, was given a bump-up in title today. He was promoted to president, joining Stephen Elop, Bob Muglia, Qi Lu and Robbie Bach as the fifth company executive with that title. The official announcement and all-hands memo, after the jump.