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13 Feb 2023, 12:01 pm by Paul Caron
ProPublica, How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law: Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical... [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 4:13 am by Stewart Baker
Has Steve Ballmer been sneaking onto Microsoft's Redmond campus and whispering dreams of world domination and ruthless tactics into Satya Nadella's ear? [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 4:23 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19: “The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men [Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, and Warren Buffet] has doubled since the pandemic began. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 10:00 am by Josh H. Escovedo
According to the Clippers’ Steve Ballmer, the Clippers wanted a naming-rights partner who could match their passion for technology and the pursuit of innovation, and they seem to have found exactly that in Intuit, makers of financial software like QuickBooks and TurboTax. [read post]
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 pm by Paul Caron
ProPublica, The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes: Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 6:45 am by Kevin Kaufman
Only about a dozen people would be liable for the tax, an exceptionally small base, and four of them—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Mackenzie Scott—would account for 97 percent of the tax’s revenue, according to the most recent Forbes data. [read post]
25 May 2020, 3:39 pm by Chuck Cosson
  See Steve Hilton, “Fear-mongering media's dangerous, divisive coronavirus misinformation has a human cost,” https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-hilton-fear-mongering-medias-dangerous-divisive-coronavirus-misinformation-has-a-human-cost (“This misinformation, this fear they stoke, it's not just empty words. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 9:58 am by Jim Salter
The municipalities have also been targeted heavily with lobbying from Microsoft itself, up to and including Steve Ballmer (then Microsoft's CEO) interrupting a ski vacation to fly to Munich to try to cut a pro-Microsoft deal in person. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 8:40 am by Florian Mueller
We're now a genuine open-source cloud AI company while Steve Ballmer is watching basketball all day and Bill Gates is growing GMOs in Africa. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 2:30 pm
CIO and others report that Steve Ballmer, late of Microsoft, has a new project called USA Facts (Our nation, in numbers) that has the grand goal of fixing the US government. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 11:05 am by Paul Caron
Washington Post, Tax Transparency in the Age of Trump: Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is doing a significant public service. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 3:42 am by Broc Romanek
It was drafted at the behest of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (the guy who bought the LA Clippers a few years ago for a cool $2 billion) – and his “USAFacts Institute” project. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 4:55 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
A new project from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Seattle design studio Artefact aims to change that. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 11:24 am by Alan J. Borsuk
” He said that was a trait held in common by people such as Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft; Bill Gates, the founder of the company; Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 2:10 am by Florian Mueller
Apple is just so much better than Microsoft (even Nadella's Microsoft, let alone Ballmer's) at understanding what users want that I see quite some potential there.It may appear hard to imagine that Steve Jobs could be overrated, but he can be, and he actually is as far as judgment is concerned. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 3:48 pm by Scott C. Soady
In May 2014, Sterling’s wife accepted an offer from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to purchase the team for $2 billion. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 12:20 pm by Associated Press
NEW YORK — Los Angeles Clippers owner and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has bought a 4-percent stake in Twitter, a vote of confidence in the struggling messaging company. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 11:25 pm by Florian Mueller
"I absolutely agree with analysts who view this agreement between Microsoft and Google as a sign of Microsoft's attitude toward competitors being fundamentally different under its new CEO than under Steve Ballmer and, previously, Bill Gates. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 1:10 pm by Peter Bright
Microsoft has long struggled with software piracy in China, with then-CEO Steve Ballmer saying in 2011 that the company was missing something like 95 percent of potential revenue due to lax protection of intellectual property rights. [read post]