Steve Ballmer, ex-Microsoft CEO, and wife Connie donate $425M to new Univ. of Oregon institute

The University of Oregon on Tuesday launched the Ballmer Institute for Youngsters’s Behavioral Well being on Tuesday, with a present of greater than $425 million from Connie and…

Feast on facts: USAFacts serves its annual helping of real data to help steer holiday discussions

USAFacts data on turkey production in the U.S. (UYSAFacts Graphic) There are plenty of ways to be a total turkey at your Thanksgiving gathering. Not having your…

Steve Ballmer praises Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ tribute

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at the 2021 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Calling him a “great leader” with “incredible intellectual capacity and…

Steve Ballmer offers a scorecard on Microsoft’s big acquisitions, and revisits his own legacy as CEO

Steve Ballmer remains Microsoft’s largest individual shareholder, eight years after stepping down as CEO. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) It’s 2022, and Microsoft’s cloud business is…

USAFacts founder and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the State of the Union in numbers

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is founder of USAFacts. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Understanding any subject requires knowing the numbers, and that includes looking at…