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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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- Google criticizes Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo!, calling it 'tr
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  But Google is painting a starkly different picture, asserting that Microsoft will be able to stifle innovation and leverage its dominating Windows operating system to set up personal computers so consumers are automatically steered to online services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, controlled by the world's largest software maker.
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- Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break
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  When I heard that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates had invoked the phrase "creative capitalism" at last month's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, it reminded me how Microsoft avoids paying taxes on Washington-made software by selling it through Nevada.
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- AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency
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  Microsoft Friday unveiled a 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.
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- Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo - U.S. business- msnbc.com
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  Microsoft has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger in 2001.
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- Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft
  Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot
  You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of its flagship operating system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the
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- Microsoft beats quarterly estimates, raises forecast
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Microsofts quarterly results, released a few minutes ago, beat Wall Street expectations with earnings per share of 50 cents and revenue of $16.37 billion, an increase of 30 percent over the same quarter last 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
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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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