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23 Apr, 2008 8:34 am
Yahoo's earnings may have beaten expectations (if slightly), but they haven't silenced tough talk from the Internet company's chief tormentor, Microsoft's Steven Ballmer. "We are offering a lot of money,'' the software giant's chief executive said Wednesday at a
conference in Milan, according to Bloomberg News. "If Yahoo's shareholders like it, that's great. We are prepared [...]
19 Nov, 2008 5:36 pm
"Let me be as clear as I think I've tried to be publicly. We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo." With those words, Steven
Ballmer seemed to take a lot of the air out of Tuesday's speculation that his company was still interested in buying the Web concern it
aggressively pursued earlier this year. [...]
5 Jun, 2007 8:53 pm
... is unquestionably superb and the car looks very impressive with its luxury levels. This car is identical to the Continental GT coupe. Steven Ballmer Ballmer is also a Microsoft billionaire who surprisingly
drives a sporty maroon 1998 Lincoln Continental rather than a Ferrari, Porsche or a Rolls Royce. He plans on getting a Lincoln Zephyr. 1998 Lincoln Continental owned by Steven Ballmer Chris Pirillo Chris Pirillo is an Internet entrepreneur, book author, ex-TV show host and technology
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8 Apr, 2008 8:15 am
As Microsoft continues to press its takeover bid for Yahoo, Microsoft's shareholders might be interested to know more about the deal-making history of Microsoft's chief executive,
Steven Ballmer. According to an academic paper that looked at "serial acquirer" chiefs, Mr.
Ballmer's early track record for creating value through acquisitions was pretty dismal. But the working paper, [...]
22 Apr, 2008 9:43 am
Managing expectations isn't just for presidential candidates. Consider Tuesday's comments from Steven Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, who was playing it extremely cool ahead of Yahoo's much-anticipated earnings report Tuesday afternoon. "I wish
Yahoo all the success with its results, but it doesn't affect the value of Yahoo to Microsoft," Mr. Ballmer said Tuesday from [...]
4 Jun 2:00 am
Bloomberg: Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore, by Ryan J. Donmoyer: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world's largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts
President Barack Obama's plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies' foreign profits. "It makes U.S....
1 Dec, 2006 7:44 am
Robert Greifeld, Nasdaq's chief executive, was looking quite upbeat on Thursday as Microsoft chief Steven Ballmer stood next to him and rang the market's opening bell. Prudential analyst Robert Rutschow was sounding downright gloomy, however. Mr. Rutschow on
Thursday cut his rating on Nasdaq's stock to "underweight" from "overweight" - skipping "neutral" altogether - [...]
1 Feb, 2008 9:49 am
The unfolding drama that is Microsoft's blockbuster offer for Yahoo already features some of the tech world's bold-faced names, such as Steven
Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Jerry Yang and Terry Semel. The deal also includes some big-name investment banks as advisers - but not necessarily on the
sides you might expect. As we've detailed earlier, Microsoft's advisers [...]
5 Feb, 2008 5:06 am
In sending a public letter to his intended takeover target, Microsoft's Steven Ballmer became the
latest acquisition-hungry chief to try the time-honored "bear hug." In this case, there were definitely claws behind his warm and fuzzy words to Yahoo, as DealBook explains in its
latest column in The New York Times. In other words, this bear [...]
6 Feb, 2008 7:05 am
The prospect of working for Steven Ballmer and the leviathan that is Microsoft can't help but be a
bit distracting to the many employees of Yahoo. That could be why Jerry Yang, the co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo, decided to circulate a memo to his workers Wednesday in which
he thanked them for "staying [...]
8 Apr, 2008 4:47 am
Microsoft delivered a threat to Yahoo over the weekend, indicating that if the search giant doesn't start playing ball it may lower its offer and formally go hostile, there is plenty of
speculation about whether or not Microsoft's chief Steven Ballmer may be playing a game of chicken.
But what about his Yahoo counterpart, Jerry [...]
13 Jul, 2008 3:53 am
Yahoo said on Saturday night that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft - together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn - to buy the beleaguered Internet company's search
business. The new proposal, made on Friday evening by Mr. Icahn and Steven Ballmer, Microsoft's chief
executive, was substantially similar to a previous offer that [...]
18 Jul 7:29 pm
NYT - "Perhaps nothing better illustrates how far behind Microsoft is in the search engine wars than a recent comment by the company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, about why he liked the name Bing for Microsoft's new competitor to Google."
3 Nov, 2006 12:38 pm
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes today, November 3, 2006, at Linux-Watch: Red Hat Inc. wasted no time in responding to the news that Novell and
Microsoft ... possible Microsoft-patent infringement. In an exclusive eWEEK interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the distributors
of other versions of Linux will not be able to tell their customers ... 're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes," Ballmer
said. Red Hat, for one, is not interested. In a public statement, the Raleigh, NC- ...
2 Oct, 2007 12:46 pm
The New York Times reports that Microsoft is playing it close to the chest. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, visiting France to promote
innovation, declined to say whether the software maker would contest the ruling to its last level, the European Court of Justice. … Asked by The Associated Press whether Microsoft would
appeal, he refused to say. He also declined all comment after his first appointment with Prime Minister Francois Fillon. "Innovation is a topic that is fraught with many ...
29 Oct, 2007 5:39 am
... north by opening an office here. Half an hour into the party, there was a ripple of excitement, and people started murmuring and pointing toward the door. When the crowd parted, I
expected to see Mark Zuckerberg, the young overlord of Facebook, or Steve Ballmer, the battle-hardened Microsoft veteran. Then again, this is a
MySpace party, so maybe Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan? Instead, it was Rupert Murdoch - old school, old media, and at 76, just plain old. From the reaction of the crowd, it ...
2 May, 2008 4:40 am
Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told employees on Thursday that the company would
announce in "short order" which of three paths it would choose in its pursuit of Yahoo. The options, Mr. Ballmer said in a meeting with
employees, were completing a negotiated deal, pursuing a hostile takeover or walking away. Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's cash-and-stock [...]
24 Feb 7:36 am
Yahoo may have a new chief, but Steven A. Ballmer appears to be getting the same cold shoulder. As
Mr. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, gave a fairly grim outlook for 2009 at a strategic update on Tuesday, CNBC was reporting that
Microsoft had been repeatedly "rebuffed" and "ignored" in its attempts to reach some [...]
15 Nov, 2006 5:18 am
... or someone else can figure out how to compete with the Google advertising juggernaut, Google has too much power. "The truth is, what Google is doing now is transferring the wealth
out of the hands of rights holders into Google," Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, told
BusinessWeek recently. "So media companies around the world are all threatened by Google." Well, maybe. For now, Google seems to have far fewer ...
22 Nov, 2006 4:53 am
Less than three weeks after they reached an accord hailed as proof that rival software companies could work together, the chief executives of Novell and Microsoft are engaged in an
unusual public dispute. Explaining the agreement at a software developers' conference in Seattle last week, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said it "appropriately compensated [...]
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