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Oprah Loves the Microsoft Surface So Much She Used an iPad to Tweet About It
(Screenshot: Zagg) Between the Windows 8 sales that hit "well below" expectations, empty retail stores and the numerous YouTube videos featuring a sweaty Steve Ballmer trying to amp up a bored crowd at...
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Steve Ballmer Does His Best Steve Ballmer Impression at Surprise CES Appearance
Here is a GIF of this amazing moment. Steve "Sweaty" Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, was not slated to give the preshow keynote this year at CES. So fancy our surprise when he came running out, pointer...
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Steve Ballmer: Soon-to-Be NBA Cheerleader?
KINGS KINGS KINGS It's been a good week for fans of Steve Ballmer. First came his unexpected appearance at CES, barreling onstage like a dorky linebacker. And today, GeekWire reports that he and other...
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Mike Judge’s HBO Silicon Valley Comedy Opens On ‘The Shit Brown Hills of...
There's shit in them hills. Have we told you how mind-numbingly excited Betabeat is for HBO's forthcoming comedy, Silicon Valley? That the network's inspired decision to hire the creators of Beavis and...
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Dreams Do Come True! Looks Like Steve Ballmer Is Getting a Basketball Team
Yeehaw! (GIF by Chris Kennedy) Looks like Steve Ballmer and several other basketball-loving local investors led by Chris Hansen are going to get their wish, in the form of an NBA team they can relocate...
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New Book About Microsoft Suggests Steve Ballmer Is Playing ‘Game of Thrones’
(Original photo: Wikipedia) Gather 'round, children, for it is time to hear a tale of a kingdom riven by strife and mired in woe. Our story opens on the proud capital city known as the Microsoft...
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Microsoft Would Like You to Please Stop Blaming It for Stealing Your NBA Team
Y'all don't know me. Ever since news broke that Microsoft CEO Steve "Sweaty" Ballmer is part of an investment group working on buying Seattle its very own NBA team, the high profile tech company has...
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Steve Ballmer Thinks Dropbox’s 100 M. Users Are Just So Cute
LOL, 100 million users. (Photo: Wikimedia) While everyone's busy at the BlackBerry presser (Alicia Keys? Really?), Microsoft also has a big release today: Office 2013. In honor of the occasion, CEO...
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Bill Gates Is Now the Dowager Countess of Microsoft
(Photo: Screencap) We just realized something: He doesn't have the same ease with a zinger, but at this point in the history of Microsoft, Bill Gates is basically the company's Dowager Countess. Think...
View ArticleSteve Ballmer and Taylor Swift, Together Forever at Last
Hats off to the evil geniuses at The Verge, who have managed to merge two of Betabeat's great preoccupations: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and singer Taylor Swift. (How long before the inevitable rumors...
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Rival Techies From the South Challenge Steve Ballmer’s Plans to Own a...
We're rooting for you, Steve-o. Curses! Steve Ballmer and his fellow investors have almost closed a deal to bring NBA basketball back to Seattle, a city that's been bereft since the Sonics were sold....
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Steve-o, No! Mudslide Almost Engulfs Steve Ballmer’s Vacation Home
(Photo: Giant Bomb) Sad news out of the Pacific Northwest today: Geekwire reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer almost had his beautiful vacation home destroyed by a rampant mudslide. Why do bad...
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RAMPAGE! Steve Ballmer Bound and Determined to Bring Basketball to Seattle
Maybe tone it down just a tad. Looks like we've got a real barn-burner on our hands! For months, hedge funder Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have worked to relocate the Sacramento Kings...
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Happy Trails, Steve-O: Ballmer Is Retiring As Microsoft CEO Within a Year
This man dearly loves a brawl. (Photo: Wikimedia) After years of everyone wondering whether maybe Steve Ballmer had cut some sort of deal with a Voodoo priestess to remain in charge of Microsoft, the...
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Get On Your Feet: 10 Reasons We’re Going to Miss Steve ‘Sweaty’ Ballmer
The sad news broke this morning that Steve Ballmer, the long-time CEO of Microsoft, will be retiring within the next 12 months. He did some stuff for Microsoft and then he did some other stuff but the...
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Booting Up: Sheryl Sandberg Almost Blew Up Yahoo’s Purchase of Tumblr
Sad for him. (Photo: Giant Bomb) The departure of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was neither "planned nor as smooth as portrayed." How befitting of the company. [AllThingsD] Amazon Web Services went down...
View ArticleLife Isn’t All Launch Parties and IPOs, But It Should Be: The Real Housewives...
Sometimes, when news is slow, Betabeat likes to imagine what the tech elite would be like should they appear on Bravo's hugely successful reality TV franchise The Real Housewives. Would Sean Parker...
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Happy 153rd Birthday, Jane Addams: Google Is Maybe Running Out of Doodle Ideas
(Photo: Google.com) Google's daily doodles often commemorate such worthy occasions as Malaysian Independence Day and Dr. Seuss's birth. Some days, though, they leave us wondering if there is a secret...
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Nobody Puts Ballmer In a Corner: Microsoft CEO’s Send-Off Includes Dancing to...
Miss u boo (Photo: Wikimedia) Last month, longtime Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he would be leaving the company within a year, and so the goodbyes began. The Verge reports that yesterday...
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Booting Up: If You Are Wondering, Steve Ballmer Still Hasn’t Left Microsoft
Going to miss you. (Photo: Giant Bomb) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer released his final letter to stockholders yesterday with no sign of when he's going to leave. [AllThingsD] According to planning...
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