An eight-minute riff-and-rip from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fanboy Jon Stewart on the company’s role in giving Gizmodo journalist Jason Chen’s “the meth lab treatment” and sending security to the iPhone seller’s house; “Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) was supposed to be the evil one now you’re busting down doors in Palo Alto…

For decades, Bill Gates and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) were synonymous. Even when he left Microsoft to focus more on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his outside identity was 99 percent wrapped up in the company he co-founded. He can’t escape the connection—and why should he? Microsoft money fuels his…

As Bill Gates gets set to decamp from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)—he’ll get the plaque and the cheap watch on June 27—WSJ does some good work, examining the past eight years of torch-passing from Gates to his good friend and current CEO Steve Ballmer. The gist: The initial period of transition…

It’s 8 am and I’m sitting in the Four Season auditorium listening to Jill Sobule sing about dying record companies—“I’ve got nothing to prove, once I was as miserable as you”—as a warm up for Jeff Bezos. Still recovering from the the opening night of D6 and a dinner group…

Here at D listening to the Bill and Steve show—Gates and Ballmer this year, no repeat of last year’s star turn by Steve Jobs. It starts with the Microsoft-Gates farewell video from CES with a few tweaks. And now it’s a group interview with Kara, Walt, Bill and Steve (not…

So Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is not taking the bait, at least not yet: Bill Gates said Microsoft is not haggling on the bid price with Yahoo behind the scenes, in an interview, reported by AP. Of course, this does not mean it won’t raise the price publicly, even though Gates…