Microsoft's Bid for Yhoo Loses Value Since Offer
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| By Friday afternoon, Microsoft's share price was down about 12 percent at
| $28.4.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803268.html
Didn't Ballmer tell his investors that there would be only about 20 /small/
acquisitions in 2008? Only the buybacks still buy MSFT. It's becoming more
privatised as the cash piles get depleted. Even Gates drops the stock.
Yahoo Investor Wants More Microsoft Money
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/08/yahoo-investor-wants-more-microsoft-money
Related:
Bill Gates Sells Microsoft Shares
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Sells 3 Million Shares
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070802/microsoft_insider_transactions.html?.v=1
Microsoft's Gates Sells 1M Shares
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| Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Corp., sold 1 million shares of common
| stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070731/microsoft_insider_transactions.html?.v=1
Microsoft's Bill Gates Sells Shares
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| The co-founder and chairman of the world's largest software maker, Microsoft
| Corp., sold 2 million shares of common stock, according to a document filed
| with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070726/microsoft_chairman_insider_transaction.html?.v=1
Gates sells more Microsoft stock, filings show
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| Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., sold 4 million
| shares of the software giant's stock over the last three days of
| February, bringing his total sales for the month to 20 million,
| according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/filings-show-gates-sold-20/story.aspx?guid=%7B49EF9F15%2D1156%2D44BC%2DA94B%2D6C851DD00B63%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
Message-ID:<58639847.8rSj9bvGmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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| Anonymous sent me this: "I decided not to post this on the 'net, because I am
| not familiar with US law in regards to information that although public
| accessible, could be considered a breech of privacy. Perhaps UK law is more
| kind. I don't know.
|
| Out of curiosity, I took the Yahoo stock link that John Bailo posted a few
| messages back, then clicked on Gate's name. It gave link:
|
| http://biz.yahoo.com/t/38/567.html
|
| This is two years worth of transactions by Mr. Gates. One is a Statement of
| Ownership (11 May 2006). Rest are sales. I took the html table and dumped
| it to a spreadsheet. After massaging, I came up with the following numbers:
|
| For sale transactions from 04 May 2005 to 22 Feb 2007, 136,003,100 shares
| were sold at an approximate value of $3,639,031,883 USD or
| £1,857,580,215 GBP or
| ?2,756,603,042 EUR or
| $4,249,261,139 CAD or
| ¥430,941,433,649 JPY.
|
| Average price per share was $26.76 USD.
|
| In essence according to Yahoo! Finance Edgar Online, sale was about $3.6
| billion for 136 million shares. Declared holdings as of 22 Feb 07 are
| 922,499,336 Direct, 425,066 Indirect for a total of 922,924,402 shares."
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| "There can be no more eloquent statement that Microsoft is growing
| irrelevant than Bill Gates' announcement on 15 June 2006 that he is
| stepping down from daily operations. Ray Ozzie has already taken over
| as Chief Software Architect.
|
| "One of the most eloquent dispositions on how badly things have gone
| wrong within Microsoft was by a Windows group insider (3). It
| describes the state of paralysis within the company caused by the
| horrifying complexity of monolithic integration, and persistent denial
| of reality by Microsoft's development management."
|
| "So what did Bill Gates see?"
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http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit040.html
Understanding Open Source technology
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| Already industrial watchers are pointing to a serious showdown,
| which in the meantime, the Chief Executive of Microsoft Corporation,
| Steve Ballmer did not rule out in a recent interview in which he
| also explained why Microsoft announced a sweeping reorganisation
| of its Windows division.
|
| "We have to outrun this phenomenon [OSS]" he was quoted as saying, and "
| ...if we let up for a minute... then that other stuff will gain"
| attraction.
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http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=01/31/2007&qrTitle=Understanding%20Open%20Source%20technology&qrColumn=ISSUES
Niall Sez Microsoft is Too Big and Paralyzed
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| Lots of echoes in the chamber rolled up at TechMeme. Rumblings of
| cut-backs and paralysis and Microsoft being the new IBM. I certainlya
| gree with the desire for Microsoft to be a way smaller company (thoughI
| think every time I say that, or ring a bell, 100 more people get hired).
| I'm not bought into the split-up, except for the sobering benefit of
| cutting off the cash-cow money flow that allows an abundance of waste
| and bad decisions elsewhere in the company.
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http://tinyurl.com/kdzmk
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