So the second CEO of Microsoft retired and bought himself a basketball team that was not very good and was down there in LA. Then Balmer made a deal, shaking up the NBA immediately moving his team, the Clippers , from the league’s most long-sufferingand hard-luck franchises to a competitive lev[...]
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November 21st, 2016 - 1:52 am § in Misc.
Steve Balmer’s Failures
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC on Friday that he tried to buy Facebook when it was “itsy-bitsy” for $24 billion. Ballmer left Microsoft in 2014 and is now the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and an investor in Twitter. Facebook fielded a lot of offers in its early days, a[...]
May 20th, 2016 - 9:46 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer’s Legacy
CNET reports that Microsoft is unloading its low-end Nokia phone operations for $350 million to a Finnish startup and a unit of Taiwan’s manufacturing giant Foxconn,. U nder Steve Balmer, Microsoft bought Nokia’s mobile devices business for $7.2 billion (yes, billion) in 2014. Balme[...]
July 22nd, 2015 - 8:57 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer’s Blunder Costs Microsoft $7.6 Billion!
Job cuts, write-off tag Microsoft’s Nokia purchase as $7.6B mistake So … howsit that Balmer ends up a wealthy man after making a $7,600,000,000 mistake?[...]
July 8th, 2015 - 8:50 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Balmer’s Legacy
Microsoft to lay off 7,800 workers, most from weak mobile phone unit The layoffs will mostly affect employees in the former Nokia smartphone business, which Microsoft is also now attempting to restructure.[...]
July 18th, 2014 - 10:40 pm § in Misc.
What hath Balmer Wrought?
As part of a streamlining effort following its buyout of cell-phone maker Nokia, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it was closing the Nokia plant in Komarom, northwest Hungary, local wire service MTI reported.[...]
June 6th, 2014 - 12:53 pm § in The Ave Scene
How Balmer’s Ego Screwed Microsoft
Balmer sees Clippers as ‘America’s team’ Steve Balmer is bizarre. He has just invested 20% of his 20 billion dollars in wealth. That money is likely a tax dodge. He is never going to make a profit but gets to have a toy to please his ego at the expense of a public who gets […][...]
February 5th, 2014 - 11:01 am § in Misc.
Microsoft’s Surface Paying Off!: Balmer Should Get Credit
Steve Balmer should get credit for figuring it out! After an Awful Marketing Campaign, MS is Learning How to Sell The Surface! Windows-based tablets market share has risen from less than 1% in 2012 to 3.4% in 2013, and is expected to reach 10.2% in 2017. Microsoft Surface RT Launch Party (Photo [...]
November 18th, 2013 - 4:27 am § in Misc.
Sould the UW Privatize and Leave Washington? Ask Mr. Balmer
Tim Egan’s has a very critical comment on Boeing’s decision to have other sates build on a lace tom build the 777x. His comment was inevitable once Boeing moved its home offices to Chicago. Boeing is now a global entity with no more loyalty to Washington State than it does to buil[...]
Balmer not moving, plans to grow old and die in Seattle