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Friday, 15 November 2013 06:14

Is Kevin Turner Microsoft's next CEO

According to several unnamed sources some of them are speculating that Microsoft already knows the name of the future CEO which should replace Steve Ballmer. His name is Kevin Turner, the current COO (Chief Operating Officer) of the company. Although he was not previously published on the list of potential candidates, reportedly at Microsoft believe that Turner is an ideal temporary solution for a transitional period of several years.

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Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:20

88 million for transition CEO of BlackBerry

It was recently reported that a new transitional BlackBerry's CEO  is John Chen. It is now known how many millions it takes to take one of the currently most difficult jobs in the industry with regard to the situation in the BlackBerry.

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Steve Ballmer’s resignation was no shock to anyone that has been following Microsoft for the last few years. After far too many slips and mistakes the board and many investors felt it was time for Steve to go. Now the big talk is who will replace him underscored by a handful of rumors that Bill Gates might be the next guy be pushed out. If you look at each of these topics on their own you get a few interesting stories with some comedy thrown in for good measure. However, if you combine them you see a much more interesting picture being painted at Microsoft.

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Saturday, 12 October 2013 12:52

New Microsoft's CEO by the end of the year

According to the announcement, Steve Ballmer will withdraw from  the leading position at Microsoft by August next year, but according to new infomation it could be much earlier.

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Friday, 27 September 2013 22:25

Ballmer's emotional goodbye

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Steve Ballmer held his last great gathering of Microsoft's employees and in a very moving way said his goodbyes. More than 13,000 workers gathered at the traditional annual meeting to attend Ballmer's farewell. In the same way that he held his presentations so far, emotionally and with high pace, he held the last one which server as the official goodbye from co-workers.

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Microsoft’s investors are signaling that they are ready for change and they want someone who can facilitate that change to be the next CEO. You can see this desire in the suggestions that they have put forward to the Board; Ford CEO Alan Mulally while another potential replacement is Computer Sciences Corporation CEO Mike Lawrie. At least this is the going rumor after Yahoo published an article citing an unnamed source (aren’t they always?).

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According to some financial media, the recent decline in shares of Microsoft for 11 percent, made Steve Ballmer a very unhappy person who is obviously not able to curb the situation that one of the largest technology giants is in today.

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Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:33

Lazaridis leaves BlackBerry

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Mike Lazaridis, one of RIM's founders, is leaving the company. He stepped down from CEO duty 15 months ago, and was succeeded by Thorstein Heins. Lazaridis founded the company Research In Motion back in 1984 and was CEO until last year. On the occasion of announcement that he will leave the company on May 1st, he said that he believes he left the company good hands. On the other hand, Heins says he admires Mike on all the achievements and vision that helped in achieving the company's goals.

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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:25

Intel looking for a new CEO

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Paul Otellini is leaving Intel. The duty of the CEO's in this giant chip developer has been Otellini's for the last eight years and he was only the fifth CEO in Intel’s 45 year history. A lot has changed since he became Intel's CEO back in 2005, mobile and tablet devices are becoming more and more popular and therefore the chips for them became an important part of the market. Otellini decided that it's time for a new generation to take over Intel and lead them into new successes in this field too.

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17So today most of the big companies had their quarterly earnings calls. We heard from Intel, Microsoft, Apple, and many others.  Most had both good news and bad some of this was surprising, some not so surprising. Despite assurances that Intel will “atomize” us (thanks for that one Francois) Intel reported that sales of the Atom CPU have dropped off. One of the big reasons for this is the increase in ARM’s presence in the market and a small showing by AMD with their new E350 CPUs.

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