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The Three Caballeros?–Bostock, Ballmer and…Bewkes?

in News on January 18, 2009 at 1:07 am PT

It wasn’t just Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer meeting in New York last week. According to several sources close to the situation, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes rounded out the trio of chit-chatting execs, presumably gathered to discuss possible partnerships and other deals between and amongst the companies whose digital assets are among the largest on the Web. Although the possibilities are numerous, exactly what Bostock, Ballmer and Bewkes–let’s call them the Busy B’s from here on out–were cooking up is unclear.

BoomTown Decodes Microsoft's Steve Ballmer's Letter to Yahoo (So You Don't Have To)

in News on April 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Could we resist? No, we could not. Thus, BoomTown’s translation of Saturday’s letter from Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer to the Yahoo (YHOO) Board of Directors, which has been resisting the software giant’s efforts to buy the troubled Internet portal for $31 a share in an unsolicited takeover. The well-written letter was surprising in its [...]