Microsoft

Many of the largest technology companies are making so much money that they are rapidly accumulating cash on their balance sheets. While on could argue that this cash should be stripped off the balance sheet for valuation purposes, I would…

In the tech world the big news is Microsoft's unveiling of the Surface Tablet and Windows Phone 8 on back to back days. There is a lot of positive buzz around these two initiatives. The question, of course, is whether it will vault…

Mashable says the Nokia Lumia 800 could be the best Windows Phone yet. The Wall Street Journal is a little more sceptical of Nokia’s Windows Mobile phone launch though. Take a look.

Here’s an interesting conversation about social media and Internet and technology companies' adjustment to it.

Though, in the eyes of Microsoft executives, virtually any outcome might seem better than letting the company fall into the hands of Google, which still has no strong foothold in social or communication software - one of the few online…

I would argue that this is evidence that these companies are wasting shareholder capital by plunking down for splashy acquisitions and large new capital investments that are not paying off. Cisco and Microsoft have huge cash balances…

Internet search is broken. Battered by spammers, content farms and black hat optimizers, the typical Internet search is a horrible mess. Try basic search terms like "washing machine". Or try a term relevant to this site like…

If you saw the last round of data for the burgeoning mobile market, you would understand exactly why Nokia and Microsoft are banding together. These two companies are also rans in a market that has shifted away from voice communication to…

Earlier this week Google disclosed that it had run a sting operation on its main search page which clearly ascertained that Bing, a competitor search engine by Microsoft, was using Google's search results to tweak its own search results.…