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Microsoft: insiders who could be CEO

According To Bill Rigby

SEATTLE (Reuters)-Microsoft Corp has a stable of top managers, who could be candidates to succeed CEO Steve Ballmer, though from the outside have raised most of the discussion so far.

After Ballmer's surprising announcement on Friday that goes to the year the Council leadership independent Director John Thompson, who is leading the search for a new Director-General, said that the planned transformation of the software giant in the fast-moving "devices and services," the company is still on the road.

"It looked as if they want to continue on the path of this equipment and services strategy, which will probably get someone who was part of the formulation of this strategy, or who may fully worth it. I don't know if most of the outside candidates would be willing to do it, "said Sid Parakh, an analyst at McAdams Wright fund company Rigel.

Microsoft is expected to favour the internal candidate.

But insiders would face skepticism from those who have a clean break from Ballmer's personal heritage, as well as other obstacles.

"The problem with internal candidates is that Microsoft has cultivated a culture of very few style holding company execs are generally exposed to all areas of the business," said Al Hilwa, an analyst at tech research firm IDC.

Here is a list of potential candidates, with pros and cons, based on interviews with analysts and insiders. All except Raikes and Thompson are Executive Vice Presidents.

Catherine Nadella, cloud and business

For: 21letý Microsoft veteran, knows the inner workings of the company, especially in hot areas, data center servers and online services. Recently promoted to run a newly created units "cloud and organization", controls the infrastructure for the "services" page of Microsoft's new vision.

CON: even though he was once a Vice President in the unit Office, he tries to save the authority over the Almighty Windows and Office faction, sources of profit of the company, which are famously antagonistic to each other.

Tony Bates, a corporate strategy

For: Microsoft Came two years ago as CEO of Skype online chat, which represents a new wave of internet-centric, consumer-oriented technologies that Microsoft has difficulty replicating. Was so impressed by his new boss, that it commissioned a corporate strategy, Ballmer and relationships with developers and computer manufacturers.

CON: may not be at Microsoft for a long time know how to key into a new shape and its specialization in the field of telecommunications, and the router may not be wide enough so that the big software company.

Terry Myerson, operating systems

For: young entrepreneur whose web software, the company was acquired by Microsoft in the late 1990s, he could bring the start-up mentality at the top post. Recently elected Ballmer run many operating systems-that are still the heart of the Microsoft-range over a Windows PC, Tablet, phones and game consoles Xbox.

CON: His last task was running Windows Phone Unit, which has won praise for its clean, stylish software, but didn't come close to getting Microsoft a big player on the market for a smartphone.

Qi Lu, the search and the Internet

For: former Director of Yahoo Inc. is a heavyweight in the online search and advertising, with 20 u.s. patents. Now he runs "programs and services" group, which is responsible for placing enterprises established Microsoft's software, as well as his Office, on the Web. It is an essential part of Ballmer's reorganization plan.

CON: under his supervision, Bing search engine has cost Microsoft billions of dollars without threat to Google Inc. 's dominance.

Julie Larson-green, a game for the Xbox console and the surface of the Tablet

For: 20letý veteran of Microsoft and acolyte of the recently retired Chief Steven Sinofsky, Windows has an intimate knowledge of Office and Windows drives that led to the redesign of the two products.

CON: he now has to worry about "studies", which leads Microsoft's foray into their own computers and other hardware. The surface of the Tablet has a poor sales, despite initial enthusiasm. Can mark for its close involvement with tepidly received Windows 8.

Eric rudder, research and technology

For: background in Microsoft for two decades, this deeply tech savvy exec now runs Microsoft's long-term research unit and sets the overall technical strategy. It is the closest the company has a big thinker in the mold of Bill Gates.

CON: never having been a business unit leader, does not have the experience to deal with the sudden Microsoft's internal politics to survive as Executive Director.

Kevin Turner, COO

For: Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer for the past eight years, a former exec at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the strength of the company's fearsome sales operation.

CON: professional trader and motivation, he does not come from an engineering background, which could be a nuisance.

Jeff Raikes, charity, the former Office of the Chief

To: Bill Gates, who is on the Committee to choose another Microsoft CEO, chose this former unit leader, Director General of the Office of his charitable foundation. How Microsoft approaches the critical transition, its many years of experience, knowledge of the Gates ' thinking and a firm hand can be an effective combination.

CON: Immersed in the world of philanthropy for the past five years, it may be out of touch with the latest technological trends. Of the same generation as Ballmer, his appointment could be seen as a continuation of the old guard.

John Thompson, the Search Committee leader

For: not beyond the possibility that the man leads the Committee to find a new CEO can eventually be considered. The former Director of IBM went on to be the CEO of computer security company Symantec Corp., giving him the experience of large companies, discovering oneself and understanding of the enterprise software market.

CON: only joined Microsoft last year, and the Council has no direct experience in the management of the company. His current work is the CEO of a little-known, privately held company, cloud computing virtual instruments.

(Reporting by Bill Rigby; Editing by Peter Henderson and Leslie Gevirtz)

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NYTimes page inaccessible, 2. disruption in August.

NEW YORK (AP)-The New York Times ' web site was inaccessible Tuesday afternoon in his second significant disruption this month.

Visitors were able to reach the home page by typing its address, 170.149.168.130, to your Web browser. But the normal way of writing error messages, NYTimes.com directory information changed and led astray. Many links pages also work because it was based on the domain name NYTimes.com. The cause is unknown, but the behavior was in line with the hacker attack.

Times officials immediately return phone and e-mail messages for comment. In the message, Twitter times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said that the cause was a "malicious, external attack."

Two weeks ago, the Times ' Web site has suffered a loss, which the company blamed on the problem server.

The New York Times the page was probably crashed, company says

(Reuters)-website of The New York Times has experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon, the probable cause of the hackers, the company said.

New York Times Co. spokeswoman Eileen Murphy in Tuesday tweeted that "the problem is most likely the result of an external malicious attack," based on the initial assessment.

It is the second time the times has a problem with his website for two weeks. August 14, instead fell for a few hours, the failure is likely related to the scheduled maintenance updates that occurred within a few seconds a Web site goes down.

Several media organizations have been attacked by hackers in recent months. Also in August, the Syrian army support electronic hackers at the targeted sites belonging to the CNN, time and the Washington Post about the crossing of the third party services used by these sites.

Dow Jones Chief Executive Lex Fenwick tweeted on Tuesday that the Wall Street Journal's Web site is a "free for all, for a few hours," fuck the journal crosstown rival.

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Facebook says that the country sought information about 38, 000 users in the first half of 2013

From Gerry Shi

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-the Government asks for information about more than 38 000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013 and the No. 1 social network in accordance with the highest number of requests, the company said in its first report on the extent of data queries that it gets from countries around the world.

The report follows allegations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that virtually all of the major Internet companies, including Facebook, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.--commonly conveys troves of data on potentially millions of users on the national intelligence agencies.

Facebook has more than 1 billion users worldwide.

Law enforcement authorities in the US were by far the most active in Facebook, seeking information about 20,000 to 21,000 people from January to June. This represents a slight increase from the six months from June to December 2012, when the u.s. Agency required information about roughly 18 000 to 19 000 Facebook accounts, according to data released by the company earlier.

Facebook has at least partially complied with about 80 percent of these requests, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

Authorities in other countries with a big Facebook user base, including India, the United Kingdom and Germany, also required information on thousands of users.

Facebook, which disclosed the information in its first "global government reporting requirements," said individually controlled all of the requests for information and requested the Government to meet and "very high legal bar" accept user data.

Although the full extent of the national security agency electronic data collection programmes remains unclear, Facebook energetically such claims that it allows unlimited access to the u.s. Government to secretly collect information about a significant fraction of its users.

Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch said in a Tuesday report that Facebook hoped to contribute to the ongoing debate about the proper standards for Government requests for user information in the official investigation. "

"We're fighting many of these applications, pushing back when we find that the legal flaws and a narrowing of the scope too broad or vague requirements," said stretch. "If we are required to comply with a particular request, we often share only basic information, such as your name."

Facebook said it would start to publish information on data requests at regular intervals. Google and Twitter, among other companies, have released similar information on a regular basis for several years.

Facebook's message contained secret information requests within the UNITED STATES, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act. American companies are usually prohibited from recognises the existence of data applications under these statutes. Facebook negotiated with the u.s. Government in June to start publishing the data, the total number of requests that it receives, without specifying how many relate to investigations of law enforcement as opposed to intelligence efforts.

(Gerry Shih; editing by Andrew Hay)