news.cnet.com - 11/7/2008
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday that Microsoft is "not interested" in making a new offer for internet company Yahoo, despite Yahoo's share price currently sitting at less than half what Microsoft initially offered.
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch ...
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 11/5/2008
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Jerry Yang Jerry Yang CEO and Chief Yahoo
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Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. ...
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Yahoo! Inc. - Management Team
appleinsider.com - 11/7/2008
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Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit...
as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."
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Microsoft's Ballmer considers using WebKit within IE
gigaom.com - 11/6/2008
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In hindsight, we are all geniuses or simpletons
— it’s just a matter of how much time...
we give history to ferment. At this point, it doesn’t look like history will be kind to Jerry Yang, who has had the unenviable job of ...
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Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
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Steve Ballmer: Another Yahoo Bid? No Way.
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The entire Microsoft-Yahoo saga is now starting to look really sad for Yahoo. After Jerry Yang’s statement yesterday that Yahoo is suddenly interested in being acquired by Microsoft, Steve Ballmer now responds with a firm no.
“We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition. I don’t know why they would be either, frankly,” he said. “We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not advertising. That didn’t work either, so we moved on, and they moved ...
Linkpost | 11.7.2009
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... • Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season - In WinHEC session, Microsoft exec confirms the goal is to get Win7 on PCs next year. • Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer - Steve Ballmer says using the same rendering engine as Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome would be "interesting." Also Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on it • Very mild Patch Tuesday ahead from Microsoft - Just one critical patch coming next week. • Ballmer rules out new bid for Yahoo and Yahoo's Jerry Yang runs into a wall • Are ...
Ballmer's public comments on a Yahoo deal
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... We thought we had something that made sense. It didn't make sense to them. We've moved on. Yahoo's stock: Drops 21 percent Date: Nov. 7 Event: Luncheon, Sydney Australia Comment: We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not advertising. That didn't work either, so we moved on, and they moved on. We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition. I don't know why they would be either, frankly. Yahoo's stock: Drops as much as 17 percent (Source: CNET ) Date: Oct. 16 Event: Gartner Conference, Orlando Comment: It's clear that Yahoo did ...
Are Yahoo Investors Now Tuning Ballmer Out?
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... on. —Yahoo stock: Drops 21 percent —Source: Seattle P-I
—Where: Nov. 7, 2008, Sydney, Australia Tour —Ballmer: We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not advertising. That didn't work either, so we moved on, and they moved on. We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition. I don't know why they would be either, frankly. — Yahoo' stock: Drops as much as 17 percent —Source: CNET
—Where: Oct. 16, 2008, Gartner Conference —Ballmer: ...
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Yahoo Inc. shares dived more than 14 percent after the chief executive of Microsoft Corp. said Friday the software giant is not interested in renewing its bid for the struggling Internet company. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer told a business lunch in ...