CIO Insight Staff

Microsoft and Yahoo seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other. That’s turned speculation over what it will take to get the two of them together into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is "mystified" the two have not come […]

Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang said on Wednesday a potential deal with Microsoft has tremendous power, but the software giant appears no longer interested in a full merger. In his most public comments to date about his thinking on the four-month-old, on-again, off-again Microsoft merger saga, Yang signaled his company remained open to a potential […]

Microsoft plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touch screen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said on Tuesday. Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer showed off new Windows features based on software it calls "multi-touch" that will be part of Windows […]

The market for software to protect mobile devices such as smartphones has yet to take off despite brisk sales of devices such as Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem estimates that it is currently worth a few hundred million dollars a year. "It is growing. But given the […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Friday the company had never seen buying Yahoo as strategic, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50 billion to spend on other acquisitions. "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing," he told a packed hall at a technology conference in Moscow. "We will spend money on […]

Technology executives around the world are preparing for economic troubles to deepen. Many hope that their products will prove indispensable for customers and see emerging economies as sure-growth markets. But low- and middle-income consumers in the United States are struggling, and the relative strength of U.S. corporations may not last, executives said at the Reuters […]

The EU executive will investigate if steps announced by Microsoft to make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office would give consumers greater choice. "The Commission will investigate whether the announced support of ODF (Open Document Format) in Office leads to better interoperability and allows consumers to process and […]

Technologies that help businesses use power more efficiently should become a bigger money-maker in the next decade, even if surging demand for data means overall energy use in the tech sector will still rise. Executives at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit this week said businesses often see saving money as a way […]

Microsoft is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo but is in talks about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. "We are not bidding to buy Yahoo," Ballmer said at the launch of Microsoft’s new research and development centre in Israel. […]

Microsoft has proposed to buy Yahoo’s search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday. As part of the deal Yahoo would put its Asian assets, including significant minority stakes in Yahoo Japan and China’s Alibaba Group, up […]