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Chart: Apple cash balance rivals Microsoft
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| Here's an interesting trend to watch: As Microsoft has been reducing its cash
| balance through stock buybacks, dividends and acquisitions in recent years,
| Apple has been amassing its own pile.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/145611.asp?source=rss
On route to becoming the next SCO Group.
"I don’t understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy
everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
Recent:
UBS says Microsoft aims for $20 billion buyback: report
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will buy back
| as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its flagging share price,
| Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated software analyst as saying.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN0642050020080806
Microsoft in $US20b buyback
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| She expects Microsoft to complete the repurchase - at least five times larger
| than its average per quarter in the past fiscal year - over the next three
| months.
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| "They won't announce it until it's done,'' Ms Bellini said.
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http://business.smh.com.au/business/microsoft-in-us20b-buyback-20080806-3r0l.html
Microsoft $20 Billion Buyback Signaled After Slump
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=alHUkojlzB0w&refer=us
Microsoft should issue debt for a buyback--analyst
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) should take on
| debt to repurchase stock as a way to revive its flagging share price, a
| financial analyst said in a new report issued on Tuesday.
|
| Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co analyst David Hilal called on the company to
| take advantage of its predictable cash flow and rock solid balance sheet to
| execute a leveraged buyback.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2225586020080722
Eight Years of Wrongness
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| That performance record would be embarrassing enough on its own, but it comes
| in spite of going through an unprecedented amount of our cash on buybacks
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| (nearly $43 billion worth in just the past three fiscal years) and other
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| schemes that were supposed to drive the stock.
|
| [...]
|
| Some readers may be surprised that I was initially a Ballmer supporter.
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http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html
Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars [in less than a year]
http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
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