STEVE BALLMER

Apple elected Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson as its second Chairman, following the Oct. 5 death of Steve Jobs.

Microsoft Corp shareholders filed out of the software giant's annual meeting grumbling that they did not get to ask more questions in their once-a-year opportunity to quiz Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.

Apple-made smartphones and Android-based smartphones are the two most widely used smartphones in the world, but one way to really tell them apart is by seeing which is easier to use. That means turning on an iPhone or an Android-powered device and measuring which software system is easier to navigate and figuring it out just by playing around with it for a little while.

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview which features 70 minutes of never-before-seen footage from one of Jobs' best interviews, will air at select Landmark Theaters across the U.S. on Nov. 16.

Yahoo buys Interlick, an online ad technology company, while searching for a new CEO.

HTC sold more smartphones in the U.S. than any other company in the last three months.

After HTC, Samsung and other leading mobile phone manufacturers, rumors indicate that Nokia is set to announce a series of phones running the Windows operating system, at the London-based Nokia World Conference on Oct. 26.

Google's SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin spearheaded an attack on one of Apple iPhone 4S' most important features - voice assistant Siri - saying the phone is a tool for communication and should not be an assistant. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone, Rubin said on Wednesday at the AllThingsD AsiaD conference.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, rapper and angel investor MC Hammer announced a new search engine he's funding.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and co-founder of Google Sergey Brin talk about the future of Google+ and how social media will be integrated with existing Google products.

Microsoft is reportedly working on a deal to acquire Yahoo, three years after its initial acquisition offer of $44 billion was turned down.

Nokia and Microsoft will unveil their new Windows Phones at the Nokia World Event on Oct. 26. Nokia will be showing off more than one phone.

Ballmer made a few noteworthy remarks, including about the upcoming release of Windows Phone powered Nokia devices.

During a discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes shots at Apple and Google.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back at it again at the Web 2.0 summit, bashing Google Apps, Android and even Apple iPhone asking to compare the appeal of Windows phone with Android phone and iPhone.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit and picked apart his competitors, including Apple, Google, and Yahoo.

Do you find Android smartphones too complicated to operate? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer agrees. According to him, people need to be computer scientists to use an Android phone properly.

Yahoo (YHOO) announced its quarterly results on Tuesday. The company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.04.

The Microsoft Corp. announced the closing of its $8.5 billion deal to acquire Skype Global, on Thursday. The Redmond, Wash.-based company originally disclosed its intention to do so on May 10.

Microsoft Corp. began the process of acquiring the Internet's leading video chat client, Skype, for $8.5 billion, earlier this year. On May, 10, a deal acceptable to all parties was worked out and, according to a report, the two companies have been given permission to proceed, by both the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Union.

Microsoft has finalized the $8.5 billion acquisition of VoIP service Skype, initially announced in May 2011.