Most of the recent attention aimed at Yahoo has been focused on the upheaval at the former web colossus: the moribund advertising sales, the sudden departure of its CEO Carol Bartz, the rumors of a tie-up with fellow faded web giant AOL. But on Monday, the company tried to get a little positive mojo...
If you’ve been dabbling in the daily deals market, your email is probably inundated with emails touting the latest discount around the corner. Microsoft sees this torrent of email as an opportunity to give its Hotmail service a much-needed edge over its competitors. Microsoft is releasing some new tools before the end of the...
Image: AP Longsuffering Microsoft shareholders will get a laugh out of this one. In the company’s latest proxy filing, the company’s compensation committee declares that CEO Steve Ballmer is underpaid: Consistent with longstanding practice and his request, Mr. Ballmer does not participate in the equity component of the Incentive Plan. His award under the...
Image: AP Longsuffering Microsoft shareholders will get a laugh out of this one. In the company’s latest proxy filing, the company’s compensation committee declares that CEO Steve Ballmer is underpaid: Consistent with longstanding practice and his request, Mr. Ballmer does not participate in the equity component of the Incentive Plan. His award under the...
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Granted, performance numbers have always excited Ellison, but they have rarely excited audiences in the absence of, say, an actual demonstration. Photographs of last night’s keynote are indistinguishable from photos from the past two years; and Ellison’s message is indistinguishable from tapes of the past two decades. Oracle is parallel, it’s faster, it compresses...
Adobe announced today that it has acquired Typekit Inc., provider of ready-to-go Web fonts for designers. It’s a natural fit for Adobe, which produces the industry-standard suite of design software and has a long history of producing fonts. Typekit allows Web developers to load and display a vast range of fonts on the server...
Managed-hosting veteran and now enterprise cloud-computing provider Savvis is trying to woo even more big-name customers with its new Symphony Database service that features Oracle Database 11g and Microsoft SQL Server with their usual cumbersome enterprise licenses. For those keeping score at home, this puts Savvis on par with Amazon Web Services with regard...