IAC's quarterly loss hits $370 million
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| Diller also said during the call that IAC had "extensive conversations over
| the last year" with both Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., who were "very
| desirous" of owning Ask.com.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/interactivecorp-shares-fall-after-loss/story.aspx?guid=%7B3A24D69A%2D6B44%2D44A2%2DA016%2D489B796E2ECF%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2q43hn
Analysts are still 'confused', failing to realise why Microsoft's stock dropped
like a stone despite /claimed/ profits that were high.
This guy might be cooking the books, just like Novell's guys (by their _very
own_ admission):
CFO brings philosophy of change to Microsoft
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| Microsoft's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) decision in 2005 to hire Chris
| Liddell, a New Zealander working in the paper industry, to fill the company's
| open job of chief financial officer seemed like an odd choice.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN0631875320080208?rpc=44
Why did the previous CFO vanish? Worth investigating. MSFT will probably fall
further on Monday because Yahoo wants more money (while rejecting a secretly
struggling company that exposed its fear). This was announced over the weekend
after Wall Street had closed on Friday.
Didn't Bill Gates drop his position as CEO after losing $18 billion? Now he
quits altogether to brib^H^Hlobby with dump^H^Harity, which he already does
anyway.
Tough times at Microsoft. All they do is hypnotise using shi^H^Hnalysts while
bribing (caught and documented) and stacking panels (likewise).
Related:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break
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| When I heard that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates had invoked the
| phrase "creative capitalism" at last month's World Economic Forum in Davos,
| Switzerland, it reminded me how Microsoft avoids paying taxes on
| Washington-made software by selling it through Nevada. Since 1997, I
| estimate, the company has avoided paying more than $528 million in state
| taxes while racking up $92 billion in profit and distributing more than $42
| billion in dividends to shareholders. Microsoft's creative capitalism has
| deprived Washington state a lot of tax revenue it needs to pay for critical
| infrastructure such as replacing the aging 520 bridge that many of its
| employees use to get to and from corporate headquarters in Redmond.
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http://www.crosscut.com/microsoft/11167/Microsoft's+%24528+million+Washington+tax+break/
Wis. Bill to Require Tax Loophole Data
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| Wisconsin Bill Would Require More Reporting on Tax Loopholes
|
| [...]
|
| A message left with Microsoft was not immediately returned.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071219/wi_corporate_taxes.html?.v=4
Microsoft Declares Quarterly Dividend
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| Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors declared a
| quarterly dividend of $0.11 per share. The dividend is payable March 13, 2008
| to shareholders of record on February 21, 2008. The ex-dividend date will be
| February 19, 2008.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071219/aqw142.html?.v=25
Ex-CEO vouches for convicted colleague
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| The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. vouched for
| his co-defendant in a closely watched stock options backdating case,
| asserting in documents unsealed Wednesday that she didn't know she was
| executing improper transactions.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071220/ap_on_hi_te/brocade_stock_options
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| My background is finance and accounting....
|
| However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell
| game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same.
|
| THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH BY THESE TWO WILL BE
| MUCH MORE MASSIVE BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES.
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http://www.mail-archive.com/futurew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03323.html
Ecuador Tax Agency Closes Microsoft Branch Offices For 7 Days
,----[ Quote ]
| "We have twice requested balances, payment reports and complete tax
| information, but the company hasn't given it to us, so in accordance with our
| laws we have proceeded with the closure," the SRI official in charge of the
| proceeding said.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200710041610DOWJONESDJONLINE000810_FORTUNE5.htm
Microsoft Office raid in Hungary
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| "Such behavior could lead to the exclusion of competitive products from
| the market and violate European Union rules, according to the authority
| known as the GVH."
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3957835.html
Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions
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| Microsoft in 1999 announced that it would end a policy of awarding
| options at monthly lows and said it would take a $217 million charge,
| though many details of that discontinued practice haven't been widely
| known, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
|
| Those details raise questions about how Microsoft began the practice,
| what prompted the company to end it and whether the way the options
| were dated--at 30-day lows the month after they were
| granted--influenced other companies, it said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6084617.html
Microsoft Hides Its Mobile and Business Apps Divisions
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| The company is folding its two worst-performing divisions -- Microsoft
| Business Solutions (its business applications unit) and its Mobile and
| Embedded units -- into the Microsoft Business Division and Microsoft Home
| and Entertainment units, respectively.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990243,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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