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Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Several of the Microsoft co-founder's high-profile ventures have folded or declared bankruptcy during the past two years, including Metricom and Mercata. Billionaire technocrat Paul Allen wants to build companies that promote his vision of a "wired...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Hotmail co-founder launches Microsoft Office rival
News Playing in the same space as both Microsoft Office and Google Docs, Sabeer Bhatia's Live Documents was launched on Wednesday. The suite also allows users to manipulate Microsoft Office applications, since it can be used as a desktop client.
[November 23, 2007, 15:07]
Microsoft owned co. sued over porn
News Boathouse Row Entertainment Inc.a California-based seller of official NFL cheerleader posters and calendars, and its founder, Sean Patrick Dunn, allege in the suit that within 30 days of joining the LinkExchange network, banner ads for porn sites...
[August 3, 1999, 9:15]
Gentoo Linux founder quits Microsoft
News Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project, has quit his job at Microsoft after only eight months, the software giant confirmed on Monday. Last May, Robbins made the unusual switch from being a well-known...
[February 14, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft hires Gentoo Linux founder
News Call me when Microsoft hires Richard Stallman [founder of the Free Software Foundation], now that would be.mindboggling," said another posting. Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular Linux distribution to educate its in-house...
[June 16, 2005, 10:55]
Open source directory launches beta
News Ohloh co-founder and chief executive Scott Collison, a former Microsoft employee, said that through his interaction with companies while at the software giant, he recognised the difficulties developers have when using existing search engines...
[July 20, 2006, 12:45]
Acrobat: No longer written on stone
News John Warnock, chairman and co-founder of Adobe, said on the panel discussion about Adobe's past and future that the airtight Acrobat approach still has value. Adobe co-founder Chuck Geschke also defended the company's record of pushing...
[October 18, 2002, 8:25]
Yahoo's Zimbra updates Collaboration Suite
News A appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show by Yahoo chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang last month centred on how the company will use Web 2.0 to make Mail a central consumer experience. According to Zimbra co-founder Satish Dharmaraj...
[February 7, 2008, 12:16]
Microsoft on trial: Tempers grow short in courtroom
News In the e-mail, Clark, the Netscape co-founder, not only tried to persuade Microsoft to invest in Netscape, but also told Microsoft that the browser was not Netscape's real business -- that instead it was focused on developing server software.
[October 22, 1998, 9:23]
Web services group grows - without Sun
News Sun was invited to join as a "community member" in February but has instead campaigned to join as a more influential "founder," so it can sit on the group's board and set its agenda. Community members have a big role to play even if they don't have...
[April 19, 2002, 12:23]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global businesses  The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla),  Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm),  Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia),  Chief Executive of McKinsey...
[September 22, 2005, 10:36]
Photos: The battle for the Golden Penguin Bowl
News The host of the event, Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison, plays the part of Mr Money with dollar sunglasses and a suit decorated with a dollar bill print. The nerd team — MySQL co-founder Brian Aker, his colleague Jay Pipes, and Ted Tso, a Linux...
[April 6, 2006, 10:05]
Trillian patches up Yahoo rift
News Cerulean Studios has released a software patch that will let a version of its Trillian instant-messaging service communicate with Yahoo Messenger, according to its co-founder. A patch to resolve the recent Yahoo connectivity issue is currently...
[September 30, 2003, 9:10]
Google's results are no cause for concern
News Yahoo, which had a management shakeup last month that led to co-founder Jerry Yang replacing Terry Semel as chief executive, also warned that revenue for the rest of the year would be lower than expected.
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
Palm competitor - or is it a partner?
News Some overlap is unavoidable, but the companies, which share intellectual property as well as some close personal ties (Dubinsky and Handspring co-founder Jeffrey Hawkins also co-founded Palm), will likely stay out of each other's ways, according...
[September 10, 1999, 9:40]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft - has just given Oxford University three hundred grand to launch an online post graduate degree course, an American company has raised $52 million to make spherical processors, and a Netscape founder is...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
Microsoft memo: Linux fight backfiring
News Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like. Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, said...
[November 7, 2002, 9:33]
'Microsoft won't make a Netscape of us'
News At Google Press Day in California, co-founder Sergey Brin said Microsoft had behaved anti-competitively in the past when the Netscape browser was giving Internet Explorer stiff competition in the mid-1990s.
[May 11, 2006, 9:30]
Bill Gates keeps wealthiest crown
News Co-founder Paul Allen, worth $22.5bn, again placed third, while chief executive Steve Ballmer, valued at $14bn, nabbed the number 11 standing. All but 26 people on the list - including America Online co-founder Steve Case, ranked number three84...
[September 26, 2005, 10:20]
