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David Einhorn, Famed Hedge Fund Manager, Done With Microsoft, Ballmer

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Greenlight Capital, Lehman Brothers, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Wall St Crisis, Yahoo, Microsoft, David Einhorn, Steve Ballmer, Finance, Economy, Personal Finance, Business News

Famed hedge-fund manager David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital), the man who shorted Lehman Brothers, has been clobbered along with other Wall Street star...

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Steve Ballmer Pictures And Video: A Visual Guide To The Microsoft CEO

Dave Burdick | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Slideshow, Computers, Microsoft, Monkeyboy, Personal Computers, Business News
Dave Burdick

Why don't people recognize a really rich, important, wacky guy in charge of a huge, modern corporation, and who can be counted on to take a great, weird photograph?

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Another Microsoft Reorganization, Circling The Wagons 'Round Windows

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Windows, Microsoft, Kevin Johnson, Business News

The head of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Business (which includes the online business), Kevin Johnson, is headed to Juniper Networks. Microsoft...

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Yahoo Gains Support Of Major Shareholder In Proxy Fight

BusinessWeek | Rob Hof | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Bill Miller, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yahoo Buyout, Carl Icahn, Legg Mason, Legg Mason Capital Management, Jerry Yang, Yahoo Shareholders, Business News

With its annual meeting looming in just two weeks, Yahoo is ratcheting up its defense against Carl Icahn's proxy fight with an energy critics wish the...

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Microsoft's Real Problem: Steve Jobs

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, PC Market, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Pc Sales, Google, Microsoft Business Problems, Business News

As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost--Internet media--its shareholder...

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Yahoo, At Long Last, Will Pay Shareholders To Love It

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Aol, Jerry Yang, Yahoo!, Business News

Useful thought by Team Yahoo: Why trust the WSJ, the NYT CNBC or anybody else when you can just go directly to shareholders? Hence this memo released ...

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Yahoo, Microsoft Mull Buying AOL: Report

Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Sale, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner, Aol, AOL Merger, Jerry Yang, Business News

Following our report that a Time Warner team is talking to Microsoft about an AOL deal, a source tells Reuters that TWX is talking to Jerry Yang and c...

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Microsoft Wants To Deal With New Yahoo Board, Yahoo Doesn't Want A New Board

Huffington Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Microsoft, Yahoo Buyout, Carl Icahn, Yahoo Board, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Yahoo Shareholders, Jerry Yang, Business News

Carl Icahn's saber just got louder. The Associated Press reports that Microsoft has indicated that it would be interested in negotiating a deal with Y...

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Bill Gates' Last Day At Microsoft: Bids Steve Ballmer Farewell In Tears

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Bill Gates Last Day, Bill Gates Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Steve Ballmer Bill Gates, Business News

REDMOND, Wash. — On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and nei...

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Bill Gates Retires Today, Sort Of

New York Times | Steve Lohr | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Retirement, Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates Retires, Billionaires, Business News

Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world's richest philanthropy, the Bill and Me...

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When Jobs And Gates Go, What Will The Tech World Look Like?

Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, New Apple CEO, Tony Fadell, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Jonathan Ive, Apple CEO, Aapl, Bill Gates, Timothy D. Cook, Philip W. Schiller, Apple, Ron Johnson, Next Apple CEO, Scott Forstall, Billionaires, Business News

Fortune is having a nice old time peering into the crystal ball lately. First there was the lengthy gaze into Bill Gates' future after retiring from h...

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Spurned Microsoft Only Had Eyes For Yahoo

Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Yahoo, Aol, Yahoo Microsoft, Microsoft Facebook, Microsoft, Time Warner AOL, Yahoo, Business News

Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...

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Microsoft's Ballmer: All Media Consumption Will Be On Internet Within 10 Years

Washington Post | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Internet, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Media, Business News

In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views ...

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The "D" Conference: Daddy, What Did You Do During Peak Oil?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, D Conference, M Bill Gates, Walt Mossberg, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Mckibben, . Kara Swisher, Howard Stringer, Esther Dyson, Barry Diller, Media News
Jesse Kornbluth

I've attended all six D: All Things Digital conferences. Each year, the mood's different. If this year's conference is a metaphor, the economy was very much on the minds of the speakers.

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Windows 7 Preview Fails to Impress

Philip G. Baker | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, d6, Windows 7, Microsoft, Touchscreen, Bill Gates, Touch, Vista D Conference, Carlsbad, Business News
Philip G. Baker

What did Microsoft's presentation have to do with an operating system that helps us in business and fixes all the problems of Microsoft Vista? Absolutely nothing.

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Microsoft CEO Egg Thrower Should Spend Night in Jail (Then Apologize)

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Business News
Henry Blodget

In what universe is throwing an egg not criminal behavior? If you've been fortunate enough not to have been beaned with an egg of late, it's not a risk-free experience.

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Ballmer Under Pressure To Go After Google

Bloomberg | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Google, Business News

Microsoft Corp.'s decision to drop its pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. increases the pressure on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losin...

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Microsoft May Go Hostile In Bid For Yahoo, Says Report

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft, Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks...

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tells Employees: Yahoo Announcement In "Very Short Order"

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Yahoo, Microsoft, Business News

Steve Ballmer held a Town Hall conference call with Microsoft (MSFT) employees today--reported minute-by-minute by our Vas Sridharan. Not surprisingl...

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Microsoft Takeover Deadline For Yahoo Passes With No Deal

AFP | Glenn Chapman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Microsoft Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo Takeover, Business News

A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Sa...

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Ballmer Blusters: Microsoft CEO Won't Raise Yahoo Offer

AP | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business

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MILAN, Italy — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Wednesday that his company's $44 billion offer for Yahoo Inc. reflects Yahoo's...

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Microsoft CEO Threatens To Walk From Yahoo Merger

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft Yahoo Takeover, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Yahoo, Yahoo, Microsoft, Business News

Microsoft (MSFT) responds to Yahoo's earnings by raising the ante again in one last-ditch, trans-Atlantic attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) to cave. Speakin...

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Yahoo Clings To Google, Will Test Search Ads

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Yahoo Google Search Ads, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yahoo Adsense, Microsoft Bid, Yahoo Google, Steve Ballmer, Jerry Yang, Business News

Yahoo's last-ditch effort to fend off Microsoft's takeover bid: A deal to test Google's (GOOG) ads on some of its search pages. From the release: Yah...

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A Rebuttal To The IT Department Blocking Bing

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumerism, Bulls**T Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Ask Bing, Bernanke, Facebook, Stan O'Neal, Merrill Lynch, Bank Write Downs, Yahoo, Apple, Airline Travel, Hedge Fund Managers, American Airlines, Youtube, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

A social network? Us? Could that be? Every day we have as serious a discussion of current business-related events as the facts warrant!

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Is Yahoo's Yang Just Delaying The Inevitable?

Business Week | Catherina Holahan | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Yhoo, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Yahoo Bid, Yahoo Refusal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Roy Bostock, Wall Street, Microsoft Takeover Bid, Yahoo Undervalued, Jerry Yang Letter, Msft, Jerry Yang, Business News

Yahoo's resistance to a takeover by Microsoft looks foolhardy to some investors and Wall Street analysts. But the push-back may prove effective in the...

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