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...Ballmer abruptly announced his departure — or Howard Schultz’s repeated return to the helm of Starbucks....
...to the table were things that didn't impact Steve Jobs' ego....
...So the bank was quick to say that it would change its trading practices after a media organisation claimed it had helped former Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer subvert at least the spirit of US laws against...
...In 2002, Microsoft top brass Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer replaced their existing general counsel with a new person who had new ideas about how to deal with regulators....
...In 2014, former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer purchased the Los Angeles Clippers following a lifetime suspension of the team’s previous owner, Donald Sterling, who had been recorded making racist...
...Instead of the head-on rivalry with Apple and Google that defined Microsoft under its co-founder Bill Gates and his successor Steve Ballmer, Nadella has moved towards the steadier business of cloud computing...
...It’s small wonder then that Steve Ballmer, the software billionaire turned NBA team owner, was so pumped this week as the new home of his LA Clippers topped out....
...(Activists in Big Tech have not always focused on costs, by the way; in earlier cycles, the demands have run from “buy back lots of shares” to “fire Steve Ballmer”.)...
...Ballmer after previous owner Donald Sterling was recorded making racist comments.Sarver, a real estate developer who has owned the Suns since 2004, used the N-word within the front office on at least five...
...Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft chief executive, acquired the Los Angeles Clippers for $2bn in 2014, and Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith acquired the Utah Jazz last year in a deal worth $1.66bn....
...A more recent favourite is the 2007 interview with Steve Ballmer, then chief executive of Microsoft, in which he confidently declared: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market...
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
...Last week, Aspiration secured a $315m investment from Oaktree Capital and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s former chief executive. But some have raised questions about Aspiration....
...Raine advised in the $4bn sale of Ultimate Fighting Championship to a consortium including private equity group Silver Lake and the talent agency Endeavor, as well as former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer...
...Ambani is the world’s 12th richest person, according to Bloomberg, one place behind former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer....
...National Basketball Association owners, including former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, also called on senators to pass the bill....
...Microsoft managed to transfer leadership from Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer and from Mr Ballmer to Satya Nadella without undue fuss....
...Smart reads Jumping through hoops While the Clippers were making slam dunks, their billionaire owner Steve Ballmer was saving millions off his own (perfectly legal) tactics to score enormous tax breaks...
...Steve Ballmer was the group’s head: a huge bear of a man, brilliant of intellect — as strong as Bill Gates in mathematics at Harvard — but lacking in personal charm....
...One new NBA investor said that majority sale transactions, such as Steve Ballmer‘s acquisition of the Los Angeles Clippers or Joe Tsai’s purchase of the Brooklyn Nets, trade at ten times the team’s annual...
...Lex says he has a good chance of following Tim Cook, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai as chiefs who have followed founders at Apple, Microsoft (after Steve Ballmer) and Google by driving their valuations...
...Ballmer and Colin Huang, founder of Chinese ecommerce company Pinduoduo....
...John Thompson, the chairman of the board at Microsoft, said that when ValueAct became a shareholder in 2013, the technology group’s then chief executive Steve Ballmer was trying to negotiate his departure...
...It is widely cited as the catalyst for the departure of Steve Ballmer as chief executive of Microsoft in 2014....
...His clients have included Steve Ballmer, the US investor and owner of the LA Clippers basketball team....
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