Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s personal delivery of a new car to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday was a pretty unique event, albeit carefully orchestrated. As a bonus, here’s an extended version of our video of Ballmer and Mulally speaking to the media afterward.
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Pelago has reduced its headcount as the maker of the mobile social networking product Whrrl attempts to adjust to the lingering effects of the bad economy. The layoff comes exactly one year after the Seattle startup announced a $15 million venture round from notable investors such as T-Mobile, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bezos Expeditions [...]
Talking with analysts and others today about Microsoft’s plans to rebrand its Internet search engine, I finally heard a plausible theory about why the company might choose "Bing" as the name. The site could emit a sound effect — "BING!" — whenever anyone presses the search button — thereby solidifying the brand in the minds [...]
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