online advertising ceo steve ballmer

Microsoft/Yahoo! - should Google be afraid of the big bad bid?

News Below is an unedited copy of the proposal letter sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo! would help both companies fight Google in the online advertising and services market but it also faces some... [06 Feb 2008]

Microsoft bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a tie-up will allow the two to offer an "increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers" and allow them to be "better positioned to compete in the online market". [01 Feb 2008]

Ballmer accuses Google of 'diva behaviour'

News Google seems to want special treatment on Internet Explorer, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer said: "We want to make sure there is good, healthy competition in the advertising space. Ballmer said, in a hallway conversation on... [12 May 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07

Round-Up Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer defines a fad as a $240m investment opportunity. Meanwhile, Steve Ballmer was also turning his visionary gleam to our interminable problems with mobile technology this week. [26 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08

Round-Up The office of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer: "Atkins, this deal lets us offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers and allow them to be better positioned to compete in the online market. [08 Feb 2008]

Can Microsoft/Yahoo! deal take on Google?

News rebuffed an initial approach by Microsoft last February - as revealed in Steve Ballmer's bid letter - but analyst TBR predicted Yahoo! The second reason, he said, is a straight "toe-to-toe online advertising fight" with Google. [01 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up According to an open letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! deal fell through, Ballmer and co started sniffing around Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to see if he was interested in selling the $15bn-rated social networking site. [09 May 2008]

Microsoft splurges $6bn to boost ad clout

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement: "The advertising industry is evolving and growing at an incredible pace, moving increasingly toward online and IP-served platforms, which dramatically increases the importance of software for this... [18 May 2007]

Microsoft launches into paid search

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to show off a new paid-search service on Wednesday that will eventually go toe-to-toe with rival Google and supplant partner Yahoo! s advertising. But the new MSN service, called adCentre and set to roll out... [16 Mar 2005]

Microsoft ponders its Office options

News Microsoft won't say for sure whether that's where it's heading, though CEO Steve Ballmer did note in his keynote speech earlier this week that Microsoft will soon rebrand its existing small business Office Live tools as it plans to add services... [12 Jul 2007]

Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives had previously said such a service was coming. On the Office Live Workspace front, Microsoft will initially offer the product with no advertising, though Microsoft executives said it has been... [01 Oct 2007]

Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business

News Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let Microsoft maintain its historically rapid growth rate, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts on Thursday. Company founder Bill Gates, who made a presentation before Ballmer... [27 Jul 2007]

Microsoft plans "long-term investments"

News Despite Wall Street's negative reaction to Microsoft's plan to invest billions in its emerging businesses, CEO Steve Ballmer told employees that "now is not the time to scale back". As for the competition with Google, Ballmer said one of the keys... [02 May 2006]

Redmond readies search war plans

News On Thursday, CEO Steve Ballmer said he regretted Microsoft had not spent more on in-house search research and development in the past, but said the company has addressed the oversight and plans to unveil its own search product within the next 12... [29 Mar 2004]

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