{"id":1241,"date":"2008-02-04T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2008\/02\/04\/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-says-buyout-of-yahoo-would-be-great\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T03:45:43","slug":"microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-says-buyout-of-yahoo-would-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-says-buyout-of-yahoo-would-be-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says buyout of Yahoo would be great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well of course he&#8217;s going to say it would be great&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/money.aol.com\/news\/articles\/_a\/ballmer-touts-benefits-of-a-yahoo-deal\/20080204062109990001\">he wants to do the deal<\/a>! The gist of it is this&#8230; Ballmer says the Yahoo buyout would be great because (***drum roll***)&#8230; it&#8217;s about the only way Microsoft can compete with Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google is the dominant player in the search engine game by far, with about 75% of paid searches worldwide. Microsoft wants a piece of that and says Yahoo is the key, and that Google shouldn&#8217;t be able to have such a corner on the market. (Hmmm&#8230;. Microsoft doesn&#8217;t otherwise appear too concerned about a certain company having total dominance in a particular arena.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a good time to take a look (again) at how passionate Steve Ballmer is about Microsoft. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ballmer a little sweaty:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_UG6Q1inAqs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ballmer going crazy (yes this is for real):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bylDojTWfyU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ballmer, the remix:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hadxBZWxNrs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well of course he&#8217;s going to say it would be great&#8230; he wants to do the deal! The gist of it is this&#8230; Ballmer says the Yahoo buyout would be great because (***drum roll***)&#8230; it&#8217;s about the only way Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}