Yahoo! shares! hit! five! year! low!
The Register (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Microhoo! chances 'negligible' Yahoo!'s share price dipped to $17.75 on Thursday, hitting its lowest point since October 2003.…
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Bill Gates and Seinfeld TV Commercial!
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Download latest version of Flash to view video Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember Microsoft hired Seinfeld to do advertising for their new $300 Million campaign Heres the new Bill Gates...
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Google Guys Top Vanity Fair's Most Powerful
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Vanity Fair released its annual ranking of the world’s most powerful people this week and our favorite executive trio was tied for third, just under Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch. read more
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Forget “The Conquistador”: When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy?
BoomTown - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
There will be a lot of different reactions to the first of Microsoft's newest series of commercials, featuring Founder Bill Gates playing straight man to comic Jerry Seinfeld. Set up as a discount shoe-buying skit, Seinfeld helps Gates purchase a pair called "The Conquistador," and for some Seinfeldesque reason, it's churros all around in this marketing effort. What might be more effective, of course,...
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Cool is a ludicrous aim for Microsoft
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The rather desperate-looking Seinfeld/Gates advert for Microsoft speaks of a very serious problem for the company. They're hugely successful, but they want to be something they're not.
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Steve Ballmer: Time To Come Back to Yahoo
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Michael B. Krause submits: The stock is $17.80. Now is the time for you to make a $24.00 offer. Oh how foolish a $33-37 buy would have looked in retrospect, eh? Complete Story »
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Gates. Seinfeld. Shoe Circus. = New Microsoft Product Launch?
GadgetManiac (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Well, the first ad for Microsoft starring Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld, aired yesterday. Much head-scratching ensued, as the advertisement appeared to “be about nothing”, as per the famous Seinfeld sit-com of 1989-1998. No Microsoft products or services of any kind were mentioned in the ad, although the company logo appeared briefly at the end. The [...]
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Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students, introducing technologies and ideas for the next generation of IT users, the student. There'll be discussions on development, design factors,...
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Steve Ballmer to fill Bill Gates' shoes at CES keynote
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
CES has announced that Steve Ballmer will be replacing Bill Gates by making the pre-CES keynote speech next year. Sony's Sir Howard Stringer and Ford's Alan Mulally will also be making keynote speeches. Read More...
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IT whiz spells out the future
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Miha Kralj spend five years working for Microsoft New Zealand before being promoted last year to a senior architect role within the Platform Architecture team at the company's US headquarters in Redmond, Washington. He spoke to Connect...
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Yahoo's Stock Continues To Dive
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Yahoo's stock passed under $19.18 (its price before Microsoft made an offer) about two weeks ago. Now it's hit another significant mark, closing at $18.75 yesterday afternoon. read more
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Five Reason Steve Ballmer Thinks Apple's a Buy
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Jason Schwarz submits: In a very odd twist, Apple (AAPL) has gained a huge supporter in Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer. After observing his recent actions one might conclude that he is more bullish on Apple than even Apple's own conservative management. The following list offers up the 5 AAPL buy signals coming out of Redmond: 1. Apple's Superior User Experience. In Mr. Ballmer's email to Microsoft...
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We haven’t changed the name of the conference to “Over Quota”
Aral Balkan (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
If you try to access the new web site to see the new design, you might find it a little minimalist for your liking. You might also think that we've gone and changed the name again, this time to "403 Over Quota". Google App Engine's short-term quota errors are killing us. The new [...]
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Will Google Chrome kill Firefox?
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
p2pnet news view | Products:- Joe Wilcox thinks Google’s Chrome browser might be a killer app. But not in a good way. Its appearance might herald the death of Firefox, he says on eWeek’s Microsoft Watch, kicking off with: “I’ve often chuckled at No. 6 of Google’s ‘Ten Things’: ‘You can make money without doing evil.’ I hadn’t [...]
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Google's Shiny Moment
Forbes (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Google goes after Microsoft with its Chrome browser--and a light touch.
The 3 the latest comments published by users on Steve Ballmer :
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Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen on Potential Yahoo Deal
kevink | 07/08/2008
Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Icahn & Microsoft Smart Combo For Yahoo Acquisition Baldwin, NY - Media appraiser Kevin Kamen of Kamen & Co Group Services of New York is anticipating a creative deal happening between Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft if Icahn is successful in ascertaining control of the Yahoo board of director's at the next shareholder's meeting. With Microsoft now putting its...
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Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Microsoft Could Soon Acquire Yahoo For $50 Billion
kamen group | 05/21/2008
Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Yahoo Could Soon Be Sold For $50 Billion To Microsoft Baldwin, NY - New York-based Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen predicts that Internet search and advertising giant Yahoo will soon be sold to Microsoft for $50 billion. Kamen stated, " Clearly, as of Monday morning, all signals from Redmond point to a Microsoft offer of around $35 per share coming soon as it remains active...
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Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Withdrawn
mbeteta | 05/04/2008
Microsoft has officially withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo in a letter that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer sent today to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. In a final meeting that took place today between Jerry Yang and David Filo from Yahoo and Steve Ballmer and Steve Johnson from Microsoft, Yahoo stated that the lowest price they would accept was $37 per share and Microsoft reported that they would not go over
