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...This is not going to have a major impact on our investment strategy," said Jack R. Meyer, president and CEO...
That's just one example of how Microsoft has become its own worst enemy in this trial. Another, of course, is Gates' famously evasive videotaped testimony. Until now, Microsoft has rapped the feds for taking "snippets" of its CEO's comments out of context. But on Monday, Gates changed tack, accusing Boies of asking deliberately "ambiguous questions" and then sandbagging Microsoft by airing the tapes. If he'd known they were going to be played in court, Gates said, he would have "smiled a little...
...spirit of entrepreneurship has inspired some specialized objects of philanthropic attention. Katrina Garnett, CEO of Crossworlds Software in Burlingame, Calif., and one of the high-tech world's few female chief executives, launched a foundation last year devoted to encouraging high school girls to pursue computer science. Kirsch, meanwhile, plans to pump $100,000 a year into identifying all asteroids hurtling too close to earth. "There are very few things people can do to save the world," he says. "This is one of them...
...money have soared along with the economy. This explains why zillionaires are wanted to endorse products and helps explain why they would do such a thing. There are other reasons, of course. Buffett and Lynch are both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published speculation that Gates made the golf-club ad in order to seem warmer and cuddlier. This probably isn't true (as his employee, I already find him entirely...
Boasts Steve Jobs, Pixar's CEO and Lasseter's understandably proud boss: "John Lasseter is the closest thing we have to Walt Disney today." Could be. Toy Story, Lasseter's first computer-animated feature, released in 1995, has reaped an estimated $1 billion for Pixar and its production-partner Disney in box-office, video and licensing revenues. But more important, Disney is betting that its heroes Buzz and Woody will endure for generations of kids to come. Says Peter Schneider, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation: "Look at Walt Disney's legacy: he told great stories, with great characters...