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...store for two anonymous donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window into the inner workings...
...months, trying to work out a deal that could unite AOL with Microsoft's MSN network. The talks, which were first reported in the New York Post, have risen to the highest levels of both companies, involving direct discussions between Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer, says a source close to the talks. Negotiations are now at an impasse over key technology issues, such as whose instant-messaging platform would be used. But a variety of proposals remain on the table, including the creation of a separately traded company. "We could take a more modest approach...
...movie premiere: a party, broadcast on MTV, with Elijah Wood as host and featuring beyond-trendy rockers the Killers. For the Xbox 360's theme song, Moore licensed an obscure Sex Pistols B-side titled C'mon Everybody, with Sid Vicious on vocals. "Bill and Steve, Gates and Ballmer--when we make marketing presentations, they'll sit and watch and say, 'I have no idea what's going on,'" Moore says. "But at the same time, that's what I need to hear. Because if they do understand it, that's when you know you're in trouble...
...jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R.-and- D. center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction...
...blue-jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R&D center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction...