Apple urged shareholders to vote against a proposal by investment agitator Carl Icahn, who wants Apple to buy back an additional $50 billion in stock over the next nine months to boost the share price, according to a Friday filing with U.S. regulators.
Microsoft won't select and announce a new CEO this year, the director who leads the search said today.
Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five years. A few may still be running Unix 10 years from now, but nonetheless, Gartner believes the operating system is on a path to insignificance.
A surprising thing about Goldman Sachs, one of the globe's most influential investment banks, may be the sheer size of its technology organization. It makes up a major part of its workforce.
Rumors aside, Microsoft's board of directors has done a good job of keeping the lid on its search for a CEO to replace Steve Ballmer, a public relations expert said.
Anyone looking for clues from Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting about who will next lead the technology firm came away disappointed.
Compensation awarded to the top five executives at Microsoft, including current CEO Steve Ballmer, fell in fiscal year 2013, the first time in the last four years that it's declined, according to a filing with the SEC.
Microsoft's search for a new CEO is entering its endgame, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Microsoft has shortened its list of CEO candidates to a minimum of eight, including five outsiders and three current executives, according to the Reuters news service.
Forrester Research has lowered its projection for tech spending growth this year from 5.7% to 3.9%, and it attributes the slowdown mostly to moves in Congress.
Billionaire trading activist and agitator Carl Icahn is turning the heat up on Apple, saying he would "test the waters" with a proxy fight if the company's board doesn't yield to his demand for an historic US$150 billion stock buyback.
In his last letter to shareholders before retiring, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the company's ongoing transformation to a 'devices-and-services' company and its continued reliance on enterprise sales to generate revenue.
Many IT leaders admit their spending is too heavily weighted toward keep-the-lights-on projects. Here's how to tip the balance.
With its apps, sensors and devices, Nike is increasingly becoming a technology company. It's found the best development teams come from onshore, not offshore, outsourcers.
At its big IT conference here this week, Gartner analysts put what everyone knows into a milkshake, gave it a good shake, and then used its conclusions to scare its audience of IT professionals and vendors.