BILL Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world's richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He will still be Microsoft's chairman and largest shareholder, but last (...)
STEVEN A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, walked away from a Yahoo deal on Saturday still looking for an answer to his company's fundamental problem: its time-tested recipe for success isn't working against Google, the leader in the current (...)