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Market Wrap For April 24: Apple's Smashing Earnings Overshadowed By Ukraine Concerns
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 4:41pm | 3104U.S. stocks inched higher as Apple's strong earnings reported on Wednesday proved to be not enough to ease fears over an escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine. Reports surfaced of escalated troop movements in Ukraine while Russia began military drills near the Ukraine border. After...
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SLIDESHOW: Who Could Replace Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer?
Sunday, September 1, 2013 - 11:43am | 135Last month, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he planned to retire in 2014. Between now and Ballmer's retirement, Microsoft will embark on a journey to find a suitable replacement. Who will it be? Which execs -- in and outside of Microsoft -- are most likely to get the job...
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Should Google's Vic Gundotra Become Microsoft's New CEO?
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 3:13pm | 513After a healthy career with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Vic Gundotra left his post as general manager in 2006 to take a fresh, unspecified job with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Gundotra was not allowed to join Google right away -- he was forced to take off a year before he could officially start working...
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Google+ Too Popular for Everyone, Now Only the Cool Kids Are Allowed Inside
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 1:20pm | 303It seems as if Google+, the company's long-awaited social networking entity (AKA its long-awaited Facebook-killer) is more popular than anticipated. Launching just two days ago, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) touted the service as being much safer and much more secure than other social networking sites....