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Microsoft Is Killing The Kin (MSFT)
Just six weeks after launch, Microsoft's Kin phone is dead. Microsoft is pulling the plug, sources close to Microsoft tell us.There won't be a separate Kin product anymore. Effective immediately, Andy...
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Microsoft Is Bold And Brilliant To Kill The Kin (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
Microsoft has killed its weird social networking phones, Kin One and Kin Two. This is a bold and brilliant move from new mobile boss Andy Lees.Microsoft needs to put its full mobile attention on...
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Power Struggle At Microsoft After Kin Flop (MSFT)
In the wake of Microsoft's decision to kill the Kin phones, Joshua Topolsky at Engadget is reporting that Microsoft Windows President Steve Sinofsky is making a move to take over Microsoft's mobile...
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THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Investment Advisers Warming Up To MSFT (MSFT)
The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email.MSFT Down 25% YTDShares of MSFT are down more than 25% year-to-date as the software giant seems to fall behind in...
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Microsoft Rank And File Felt "Embarrassment All Over Campus" From Kin Failure...
Microsoft's Kin failure sank morale at the company's Redmond campus according to an employee who emailed us after the news broke."Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Kin...
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Microsoft Only Sold 503 Kin Phones, John Gruber Hears (MSFT)
Microsoft only sold 503 Kin phones before pulling the plug, a "well-placed little birdie"told Daring Fireball's John Gruber.That goes along with the rumor we had heard in mid-June, that Microsoft had...
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That "8,810 Microsoft Kin-Users-On-Facebook" Statistic Is Accurate, Says...
Shooting down a rumor that Microsoft only sold about 503 of its Kin phones before pulling the plug: The official Microsoft Kin Facebook app, which says it has 8,810 monthly active users.The Kin...
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Microsoft Employees, Burned By Layoffs, Want Some Higher-Ups Canned (MSFT)
Hot on the heels of the Microsoft's decision to end the Kin project, it laid off a few hundred employees as part of its annual review process.The company spun it as no big deal. On some level, that's...
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10 Tech Flops That Survived Longer Than The Microsoft Kin (MSFT, GOOG, NOK)
The most impressive thing about Microsoft's failed Kin cellphone project is how quickly Microsoft canceled it once the company had figured out it was a bomb.After announcing the Kin 1 and Kin 2 social...
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THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Still Struggling In Search, Mobile And...
The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email.MSFT Flat As Market WaversShares of MSFT are relatively flat in early trading as the market tries to process...
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THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Good News! Microsoft's Killing More Side Projects (MSFT)
The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email.MSFT Moves With The MarketStocks rose on better than anticipated economic data this morning but tanked midday....
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Steve Ballmer Only Gets Half Of His Potential Bonus Because Of Microsoft's...
Someone's paying attention at Microsoft. At least enough to only grant CEO Steve Ballmer half of his maximum bonus this year, because of Microsoft's continued failure in the mobile industry, and...
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OK Microsoft, Here's How To Keep Your Pretty New Phones From Flopping (MSFT,...
Today in New York, Microsoft showed off the first actual phones running Windows Phone 7, the smartphone platform that the company hopes will save it from irrelevance in the mobile space.The platform...
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Microsoft's Kin Phones Are Coming Back! (MSFT, VZ)
Microsoft's Kin phones are returning to Verizon, Engadget reports.But this time, they have a better chance of success because they won't be saddled with expensive data plans. Instead, the phones will...
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Verizon To Shut Down Most Services For Kin Phones (MSFT, VZ)
The online social services that were the main point of Microsoft's Kin phone are being shut down in January, killing the product once and for all.According to a letter obtained by Kin user Conflipper,...
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BLOWN OPPORTUNITY: Microsoft Gives Up On Sidekick (MSFT)
Microsoft has given up on getting anything out of its $500 acquisition of Danger: it's shutting down the Danger service for T-Mobile Sidekick customers on May 31.Microsoft bought Danger in early 2008...
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Watch Out, Samsung: Andy Rubin Hired The Hardware Guys Who Built The Sidekick...
Android chief Andy Rubin has quietly hired two former colleagues from Danger, the company that built the Sidekick, to run the Android Hardware team at Google.Fortune reports that Matt Hershenson and...
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Microsoft Closes Hip Consumer Design Office In Downtown Seattle (MSFT)
Microsoft has shut down its office in the funky Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, where consumer electronics concepts like the "Metro" interface for Windows Phone 7 and the never-released Courier...
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Crappy Products That Lasted Longer Than The HP TouchPad (MSFT, GOOG, NOK, HPQ)
After just a month and a half on the market -- 49 days, to be exact -- HP is giving up the TouchPad and its mobile OS, WebOS.The tablet was no iPad killer, selling just 25,000 units for Best Buy over...
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Microsoft Has Always Been Awful At Making Consumer Hardware (MSFT)
Microsoft is reportedly going to manufacture its own tablet, which would be a major strategic shift for the company.This is a huge risk for Microsoft because the company has always struggled to make...
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