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- Local Seattle man who helped launch Microsoft left $65M for gay rights
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Weiland has left $65 million to the Pride Foundation in Seattle and 10 nonprofit organizations, believed to be the largest estate gift ever given to the gay and lesbian community in the U.S.
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- Bargains too good to pass up!
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  Pretty funny but thoughtful post by Dudley. Microsoft's could own NewsCorp for less than Yahoo.
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- Newspaper Ad Network Shuns Google, Yahoo, MS
  Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot
  The New York Times, and the Tribune, Gannett, Hearst companies have launched their own ad network, called QuadrantOne. It will let advertisers place ads on media sites in 27 major markets, and let them target readers by content type, demographic information, and online behavior. Notably absent from the deal: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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- Blodget: MicroHoo ‘is gonna be a disaster’
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  Yep, and all that Yahoo software - doesn't run on Microsoft servers. It's a nightmare from the technology side too.
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- High-tech giants seeking massive tax break
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Microsoft and a handful of other tech giants are quietly securing a state tax break that could be worth more than $1 billion through legislation forged amid corporate threats and an interstate bidding war for computer server farms that have become the backbone of the Internet.
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- Idealog: Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft's Tax Avoidance
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  After my editorial suggesting Washington State close the loophole on Microsoft's tax avoidance schemes was published by Crosscut and linked by Slashdot (Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft a $528M Tax Break), readers posted more than 542 comments, many defending Microsoft's practices. I am always struck by the arguments people use to defend corporate entities that dodge taxes, so I decided to summarize and respond to the most common arguments.
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- Local Gates Foundation CEO to leave longtime post
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Patty Stonesifer, who started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation above a pizza parlor seven years ago and has overseen its growth into the world's largest philanthropic institution, said Wednesday that she would step down by the end of the year.
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Jeff comments on:
Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid

This Yahoo bid was stupid from the beginning. Microsoft was going to spend all its cash to chase Google in the advertising business? Huh? Ballmer clearly backed down when he didn’t want to ante up. I suspect the Microsoft board had second thoughts as well.

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7:14 pm 5/03/08
Jeff comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

You are misunderstanding – this is about Washington B & O taxes on corporations, not income taxes.

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9:31 pm 4/02/08
aknight comments on:
Blodget: MicroHoo ‘is gonna be a disaster’

At best a year to get the deal closed, two for integration. Multiple groups on each side working on similar projects… Sounds like a great idea and a nightmare to integrate.

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6:30 pm 2/14/08
Jeff comments on:
High-tech giants seeking massive tax break

Check out my rebuttal to Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft’s Tax Avoidance here.

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11:06 am 2/12/08
edseccocpa comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

Your concern that Microsoft is avoiding paying income taxes to the State of Washington is based on the erroneous belief that there is an income tax in Washington. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

I really don’t know what you’re belly aching about.

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9:53 am 2/04/08
Jwgardner comments on:
Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism

I honestly never would have predicted such thinking from BG several years ago.

What I want to see now is the staunch capitalist’s response to such thinking. Maybe the Economist will have something (dismissive and venomous, as usual) to say about it…

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11:56 am 1/24/08
Shemuses comments on:
Xbox issues to cost Microsoft $1 billion-plus

first

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