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Ex-basketball star Kevin Johnson is back holding court in his hometown

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson ... billionaire Steve Ballmer, who planned to move the franchise to Seattle. The ownership transfer seemed like a done deal. But Johnson dug in. He put together a group ... read more

The Bill & Warren Show

So we hired our friends who wrote software ... have to say my best business decisions have had to do with picking people. Deciding to go into business with Paul Allen is probably at the top of the lis... read more

51 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2018

Silicon Valley startups love to talk about how they are trying to “solve hard problems ... CEO Steve Ballmer before Muglia left in 2014. He was best known for running Office, Windows Server and its SQ... read more

Steven Ballmer: “An Opportunity You Can Not Miss”

STEVE BALLMER: Well, thanks. I’ll make a deal with everybody. If whoever turned those lights up turns them up just a little brighter – I’ll see if I have any say ... let the software do some analysis, ... read more

The man in the red polo: Meet Scott Guthrie, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's front-line general in the cloud wars with Amazon and Google (MSFT)

Steve Jobs had the black turtleneck ... figuring out how to solve problems, and getting better. "A 'growth mindset' is a better, more uplifting term," says Guthrie. Indeed, Nadella has made it a hallm... read more

What Will Marissa Do?: Yahoo CEO Zeroes in on Search, While Her Ad Team Eyes Tech Upgrade Options

That has included a recent meeting and numerous discussions with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about improving Yahoo ... That doesn’t mean Yahoo under Mayer can’t be key to helping solve Microsoft’s sea... read more

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer ... say: “Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them of them were on this ... read more

Seattle, the New Center of a Tech Boom

“It’s a little more collaborative than the valley, because we still have lots of hard problems to solve in cloud computing,” said ... “The big question in town is what Steve Ballmer will do with his m... read more

Don’t Just Donate, Innovate

Finally, viable business models easily attract capital and offer the best chance for systemic, durable solutions to social problems. Wealthy donors typically fund 501c3 non-profits to address importan... read more

The Yammer Challenge

Yammer was arguably the hottest social ... Steve Ballmer. Whatever happens to Yammer, Helm believes Microsoft got its money's worth because it gained more than just a product; it gained a company that ... read more

Startup Spotlight: Snowflake Computing's Elastic Data Warehouse

Muglia was one of four presidents who reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. He spent 23 years at Microsoft ... for cloud data analysis and data warehousing. We also solve the problems of w... read more

'Apple can’t afford failures': Steve Milunovich on the future of Apple and the post-Jony Ive era

Apple dominates the tech world now, but that world is shifting away from devices to "ambient" software and away from iOS to ... and somehow the watch would solve this. Talk about that. Steve: Yeah sur... read more