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Microsoft to take $6.2 bln writedown for online ad service

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Microsoft has announced a 6.2 billion dollars charge to write down the value of an online advertising agency named aQuantive, which the software giant bought five years ago.

Microsoft bought aQuantiv

Microsoft's search engine Bing grabs market share from Google

Software giant Microsoft's search engine Bing has increased its share of the search market at the expense of Google, according to a new report.

Experian Hitwise, an online data measurement company ho

Microsoft tie-up, network sale among RIM options: Sources

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Research In Motion Ltd's board is under mounting pressure to consider unpalatable options such as selling its network business or forming an alliance with Microsoft Corp after the Blackberry maker aga

Gunmen ram van into Microsoft's Greek headquarters

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Gunmen rammed a van packed with gas canisters into Microsoft's Greek headquarters in Athens and then set the vehicle on fire, causing damage but no injuries, police said on Wednesday.

At least two pe

Microsoft to buy Yammer for $1bn: Report

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Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase the Yammer business software company for $1 billion in an apparent bid to shore up its widely-used Office software, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Former Microsoft nerds crack bra code

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Two former Microsoft nerds - Aarthi Ramamurthy and Michelle Lam - have now devised an algorithm that promises to help women find the perfect bra.

The two are the brain behind online-lingerie retailer

Former Yahoo! executive charged with insider trading

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US regulators on Monday announced that a former Yahoo! executive has agreed to plead guilty in an insider trading scheme that involved leaking word of the Internet search giant's pact with Microsoft.

Nokia's woes might call for Microsoft aid

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Addressing Nokia Oyj employees in January 2011, Chief Executive Stephen Elop - at that point only four months into the job - dramatised the company's predicament by comparing it to standing on a burni

Microsoft voted 'most attractive employer' in India

Microsoft India on Thursday bagged the Randstad Award 2012 for the 'most attractive employer' in the country for the second consecutive year followed by Oracle India and Tata Consultancy Services.

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Facebook to pay Microsoft $550 million for patents

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Facebook announced on Monday it would pay Microsoft $550 million for some of the patents the software giant recently acquired from AOL.

Facebook will pick up around 650 of the 925 patents Microsoft b

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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