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Microsoft Celebrates 10 Years Of Xbox Live With Limited Edition Console MTV.com (blog) Earlier this year Microsoft surprised some of their most loyal Xbox Live subscribers with some neat avatar gear. Now, they're doing it again, but on a much larger new scale. To celebrate 10 years of Xbox Live, Microsoft is giving some lucky loyal ... MTV.com (blog)

Microsoft Is Reinventing Ads for a Reinvented Skype Sci-Tech Today This new vision is the latest in a series of advertising-related initiatives Microsoft has undertaken with Skype. As an ad platform, Skype potentially starts out with a large base. Microsoft has said it has more than 280 million monthly active users ... Sci-Tech Today

Nokia's 'Here' Maps Will Power Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon TPM Nokia, the flagging mobile phone manufacturer from Finland, is revealing more about its new mapping service, 'Here,' a cloud-based free digital world map revealed Tuesday that will compete with Google Maps and Apple Maps across all types of devices, ... TPM

Microsoft's worldwide smartphone share at about 2 percent The Seattle Times Microsoft's worldwide smartphone market share now stands at about 2 to 2.4 percent -- up from a year ago but down from last quarter, according to figures released by research firms IDC and Gartner. IDC had Microsoft's smartphone-platform (including ...

Microsoft's first Canadian retail store to open at Yorkdale: Sneak peek Toronto Star In a cramped staffroom behind the store, young experts-in-training are hunched over electronic devices, cramming for opening day on Friday, when they will don neon-coloured t-shirts that will identify them to customers as experts in all things Microsoft. Toronto Star

Microsoft's Ballmer talks innovation at Churchill event San Jose Mercury News Ballmer continued down the list of recent Microsoft acquisitions — such as enterprise social network Yammer — and talked excitedly about plans for a product overhaul in the post-PC era. Left mostly unaddressed, however, was the departure of Windows ...

Sinofsky Led at Microsoft, but That Doesn't Make Him a Leader blogs.hbr.org (blog) The departure of senior Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky earlier this week has had business and tech circles buzzing. It was unexpected, immediate, and came on the heels of the release of Windows 8. Throughout the press accounts of the breakup, ... blogs.hbr.org (blog)

Microsoft launches Windows 8 with Urdu option later this year Business Recorder (blog) KARACHI: Microsoft recently announced the availability of Windows 8 in Pakistan and around the world. Windows 8 represents a fundamental shift in the way Windows works and is far more touchscreen-oriented for use on tablets as well as traditional PCs. Business Recorder (blog)

Microsoft kicks off WOWZAPP 2012 Business Recorder (blog) Microsoft Pakistan along with Nokia Pakistan recently held WOWZAPP 2012: World-wide Hackathon for Windows in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. WOWZAPP 2012 has been dubbed as the first simultaneous global Hackathon for students, start-ups and ...

Steve Ballmer Hints at Microsoft Building More Hardware Mashable Microsoft, traditionally a software company, surprised many with Surface, which is the company's first foray into building its own hardware. Several of Microsoft's hardware partners — especially Acer — openly criticized the company for building a ...

Microsoft (MSFT), Take-Two, Activision, EA: Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers ... Insider Monkey (blog) Other big name funds invested in Take-Two during 2Q were Ken Griffin - upping his stake 35% - and Jim Simons with a new position. See all the other funds pulling for Take-Two. The game maker's signature brand is its Grand Theft Auto franchise. Insider Monkey (blog)

These guys explain Microsoft — sometimes even better than Microsoft would like GeekWire From the Directions on Microsoft archives, circa 2009, L-R: Research director Rob Helm, Rob Sanfilippo, Paul DeGroot (now an alum) Rebecca Duffy (alum), co-founder Rob Horwitz, Michael Cherry, Don Retallack and former analyst Matt Rosoff, a journalist ... GeekWire

The market is currently betting that Microsoft will grow more quickly than ... The Next Web (blog) Also, I'm canceling our lunch. Here's a fun fact: The public markets are currently betting that Apple will grow more slowly than Microsoft in the coming years. What's that you say, are they drunk? Perhaps, it is Wall Street after all, but I'm being ... The Next Web (blog)