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Former ESPNer Bill Simmons, now with HBO, took to Twitter to express his views on the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team: Chris Matyszczyk reports for CNET, “Simmons began kindly: ‘Steve Ballmer seems like a nice enough guy. Donald Sterling was one of the worst human being who ever owned a pro sports franchise.’ (Sterling is…
“Steve Ballmer stands to gain as much as $1bn in tax benefits as a result of his $2bn purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, helping to explain why the Microsoft billionaire paid a record price for the club,” Arash Massoudi and Alan Livsey report for The Financial Times. “Mr Ballmer paid about four…
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“Bill Gates, the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft Corp, will have no direct ownership in the company he co-founded by mid-2018 if he keeps up his recent share sales,” Bill Rigby reports for Reuters. “Gates, who started the company that revolutionized personal computing with school-friend Paul Allen in 1975, has sold 20 million…
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“Ford CEO Alan Mulally flirted with Microsoft for longer than previously known before driving away,” Mike Ramsey, Joann S. Lublin and Shira Ovide report for The Wall Street Journal. “Mulally on Tuesday ended months of speculation by saying he won’t leave Ford for Microsoft. But the Ford CEO had been telling people inside Ford for…
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“Microsoft Corp. is closer to naming a new chief executive, according to a source familiar with the board’s thinking, but it lost a front-runner candidate on Tuesday when Ford Motor Co’s chief, Alan Mulally, said he would not be going to the software giant,” Reuters reports. “Mulally’s comments reignited the guessing game over who will…
“Today Microsoft published a short blog post from John Thompson, a member of its board and the chair of its search committee for its next CEO,” Alex Wilhelm reports for TechCrunch. “The entry stated that from an initial pool of 100 candidates, Microsoft narrowed to 20, a figure that has since shrunk, and that the…
“Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here, listening through loudspeakers to his directors’ voices on a call that would set in motion the end of his 13-year reign as Microsoft Corp.’s chief executive,” Monica Langley reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Microsoft lagged behind Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in…
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“Declaring that Microsoft and its partners had in the past ‘ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation’ to Apple, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN in an exclusive interview Monday that the company’s Surface tablet marks a new era in which the computer software giant will leave no “stone unturned” in its…
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