A $1,000 investment in Microsoft stock on Jan. 13, 2000—the day Ballmer became CEO—would have been worth only about $915 by the time he stepped down. Today, however, that same investment would ...

Steve Ballmer, who dropped out of Stanford business school to become the 30 th employee at Microsoft, is on the verge of eclipsing his mentor Bill Gates in wealth—thanks to his successor.

Ballmer and Schefman formed the right side of the football team’s offensive line and joked with each other about who would reach 300 pounds first. Schefman, a pulling guard, weighed about 190 ...

Ballmer, who acquired the team for $2 billion in 2014, brought the same level of energy to a presentation for journalists on ClipperVision and dry run of a “Ballervision” game telecast on Oct. 9.

In an interview on FOX Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast, Ballmer said he was proud for his instrumental role in the launch of the first-generation Surface, a hybrid tablet computer ...

Ballmer revealed his decision to take Microsoft into the hardware business contributed to the breakdown of his relationship with co-founder Bill Gates. "There was a fundamental disagreement about ...

Interestingly enough, Ballmer recently explained in a Bloomberg interview that his advocacy for Microsoft getting into the hardware game ultimately created a rift between him and Bill Gates.

Ballmer, now owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, said he and Gates have "drifted apart" partly due to a disagreement over whether Microsoft should make its own handsets and tablets.

What about the Project Courier tablet that never came to be? What about the early days of the Surface, or the Lumia phones for that matter.</p> <p>Ballmer’s demise can be blamed on the iPhone.

Ballmer, the former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO, revealed this week that his "brotherly relationship" with Gates was strained in part by his push to invest heavily in tablets and smartphones.

Ballmer was an advocate of Microsoft’s move into hardware to challenge Apple in the smartphone and tablet markets, first with the Surface tablet line introduced in 2012, and a year later with ...

Steve Ballmer said his decision to push Microsoft into the hardware business contributed to the breakdown of his relationship with longtime friend and company co-founder Bill Gates. Ballmer's only ...