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Microsoft investors hunt the biggest game: Bill Gates

Not even co-founder/chairman is safe at Microsoft as shareholders mount campaign to remove Bill Gates

Big-hitter investors want Gates out as Microsoft chairman

Reuters report claims three of the firm's top 20 investors fear Gates will block hiring the kind of CEO they think Microsoft needs

HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong

Company officials said this week that open sourcing SDNs is missing where the technology's value lies

Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics platform

Data science is the next big thing for agriculture, says Monsanto in paying $930 million for a software platform that crunches weather-related data

Report: HTC, Qualcomm reworking HTC One chip design after import ban threat

The HTC One could be banned from shipping to the U.S. after a preliminary ruling last week said HTC had infringed on two Nokia patents

Office Store app developers can now charge subscriptions

Microsoft is adding eight new store fronts and apps in five languages

New Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensing aims to unify cloud, physical environments

Enterprise open source software company streamlines licensing options

Report: Ford CEO downplays chatter that he’s in line to replace Ballmer

Alan Mulally is reportedly a favorite among the candidates being considered to become Microsoft's next CEO

Shareholders turn on GATES — Universal Rx rush crushes servers — Fake VC dupes ANGELLIST — SAMSUNG dupes benchmarkers — more BUBBLE signs

SAP seeks an edge from NSA surveillance worries

SAP's global data center network could give it an advantage over US-based vendors, says co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe