Gates', Ballmer's pay holding around $900,000
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Paychecks stay the same for the top two, but compensation changes for other Microsoft workers as stock grants replace options.
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Samsung Electronics agrees to pay $90m to settle price-fixing allegations in the US.
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Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune to bring it up to $48bn and stay on top of the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans.
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To pull this off, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper.
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has donated $400,000 to a campaign in California trying to win approval of a measure calling for the state to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem-cell research.
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SINGAPORE -- Bill Gates might not use AOL, but he&#39;s definitely got mail. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives millions of Internet messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company&#39;s chief executive.
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The Financial Times reported yesterday that Microsoft paid the Computer and Communications Industry Association $19.75 million earlier this month to settle an antitrust suit, and that the association&#39;s top official received $9.75 million of that amount.
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Nine vendors have been charged with taking part in a scheme to inflate earnings of a Maryland-based subsidiary of supermarket giant Royal Ahold NV by more than $800 million.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is still the richest man in America, topping the Forbes rich list for the eleventh year.
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While details of the new contract are still being worked out, Long is getting a pay raise of about $100,000 a year in an annual salary package totaling $425,000.
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Under pressure from Microsoft Corp.   investors to return a portion of the company&#039;s &#36;35  billion cash reserve and revive a flagging share price, Chief  Executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday defended the company&#039;s  &quot;first-class problem&quot; of having too much cash.
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Michael Cherkasky, the newly appointed chief executive of Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos., can pick up as much as $1.95 million annually under the terms of his pay package
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Fair's fair When Bill Gates says an offer is fair, he means it.â¦
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Citigroup Inc.'s  new chief  financial officer Gary Crittenden may be paid close to $10  million this year, including as much as $9.5 million in  incentive awards, the company said on Thursday.
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The world's richest man got a raise last year. Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned &#36;901,667 in Microsoft's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago.
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Larry Ellison, the chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., earned &#36;3.85 million in salary and bonus for the fiscal year that ended May 31, according to documents filed Friday.
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Confirming that his company had indeed been in discussions with Yahoo's senior management about a possible takeover throughout the last 18 months, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed this morning he has personally placed an offer to Yahoo's board of directors, proposing a takeover whose value it estimates at $44.6 billion.