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Investment losses sap Microsoft profit
News But investment losses of $2.6bn soured what otherwise would have been a good close to Microsoft's fiscal 2001. Including the investment charge, the software maker reported net income of $66m, or 1 cent a share.
[July 20, 2001, 10:38]
Ballmer: Microsoft putting investment behind search
News Microsoft does not break out investment in its various projects, so it is not clear if that is a significant increase on previous spending. Microsoft is willing to invest up to 10 percent of its operating income in its internet search business for...
[June 19, 2009, 16:26]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Allen's $1.65bn investment in RCN in early 2000 is worth roughly $56.2m -- a 97 percent decline. Drugstore.com received a $40m investment from Vulcan, but today that investment would be worth about $6.2m.
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Microsoft sounds off over Bulgaria investment
News If you have a very low investment rate it is hard to export. Microsoft tried to draw attention to its software development work in Bulgaria, by organising a promotional day in Brussels. According to Jan Muehlfelt, Microsoft's vice president for...
[March 9, 2007, 17:04]
AOL investment fuels feud with Microsoft
News But Amazon's relationship with Microsoft may be chillier now that the e-tailer has accepted such a sizable AOL investment, according to Raymond James' Benyola. Longtime foes in areas such as instant messaging and online access, AOL and Microsoft...
[July 26, 2001, 10:09]
Microsoft increases partner investment
News Microsoft plans to increase partner investments to $1.7bn next year and reallocate one-third of its direct customer-marketing dollars to joint-marketing programmes with its partners. Microsoft's 13 percent increase in partner channel investments...
[July 12, 2004, 17:15]
Vista slow to unfold
Leader Which makes Microsoft's investment of half a billion dollars in Vista marketing seem somewhat forlorn. If you're Mark Shuttleworth, an initial investment of $10m creates Ubuntu. If you're Microsoft, then you spend 100 times as much over the...
[May 15, 2007, 18:19]
Microsoft increases search focus
News Microsoft is significantly stepping up its investment in search technology, including paid models, in a move that could eventually supplant its relationship with Overture Services, according to a new research report.
[April 3, 2003, 10:53]
Microsoft's Yukon: Late and lacking focus
News Yukon represents a significant investment by Microsoft and encompasses years of development. If Microsoft delivers Yukon before customers' SA agreements expire, the customers will have at least justified (or just broken even on) the investment in...
[February 5, 2004, 13:55]
The Day Ahead: Wintel losing investment income crutch
News Commentary: This is a tale of two investment portfolios -- Intel and Microsoft. Add in interest and Microsoft raked in $1.13bn in investment income for the quarter. Microsoft's gains from investments are better, but the software giant's investment...
[January 19, 2001, 12:08]
Microsoft tops 2Q estimates, issues usual caution
News Strong sales of Office 2000 and large investment gains helped Microsoft keep doing what it does best. In a conference call with analysts, Microsoft executives said investment gains produced 4 cents per share more than expected, although the company...
[January 19, 2000, 9:15]
Microsoft's merger tsar departs
News A former investment banker who oversaw Microsoft's merger and acquisition strategy has left the company, the software maker confirmed on Friday. Richard Emerson, a former managing director at international investment bank Lazard Freres, was hired...
[September 22, 2003, 11:05]
MS streams ahead with NetShow 2.0, new purchase
News Microsoft will today take another step forward in streaming video over the Internet by announcing a new version of its NetShow conferencing software and plans to acquire or take an investment in VXtreme, a one-year-old Silicon Valley startup.
[August 5, 1997, 15:19]
Microsoft shares jump on outlook
News Microsoft on Wednesday said it would report better-than-expected sales for the fourth quarter, but added it would log an investment loss of $2.6bn (about £2bn). Microsoft plans to report an investment loss of $2.6bn for the fourth quarter, stemming...
[July 12, 2001, 9:47]
Microsoft 'offered to underwrite SCO funding'
News An executive at BayStar called Larry Goldfarb stated in a court declaration that Microsoft's vice president of corporate development and strategy, Richard Emerson, had offered to underwrite BayStar's own investment in SCO.
[October 9, 2006, 13:35]
Progressive-MS deal firms up streaming standards
News Progressive Networks' RealAudio and RealVideo streaming products got a shot in the arm today with the news that Microsoft plans to take a minority investment in the firm and license its key products, RealAudio and RealVideo 4.0.
[July 21, 1997, 16:47]
Proof emerges of SCO's Microsoft link
News Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying on Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50m (£27.8m) in BayStar funding for the SCO Group. Word of the Microsoft matchmaking surfaced last week when open...
[March 12, 2004, 7:25]
Xbox may see manufacturing delay
News But the investment firm said that Microsoft's management is holding fast to the company's plans to stock about 600,000 to 800,000 units at launch time and its expectations of selling up to 1.5 million units by the end of the year.
[August 15, 2001, 8:30]
Microsoft invests $15m in Akamai
News Closely held Akamai announced the Microsoft investment Monday. Last month, Akamai received a $49m investment from Cisco Systems and about $12m million from Apple Computer. Microsoft agreed to invest $15m (£9.3m) in Akamai Technologies, adding...
[September 28, 1999, 10:24]
Microsoft .Net for Linux?
News And there's more: some industry pundits likened the Microsoft investment in Corel to other investments Microsoft made a few years ago in both Apple and Inprise -- in terms of providing quick ends to pending lawsuits by those two companies against...
[October 13, 2000, 9:25]
