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Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer reacts to IBM's $34B plan to buy Red Hat

Acknowledging he hadn’t “really studied Red Hat” for “almost five years” and requesting everyone take his opinion with the appropriately sized “grain of salt,” former Microsoft Corp ... read more

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is now richer than founder Bill Gates - New York Post

Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, has a net worth of $157 billion, according to Bloomberg. Getty Images ... read more

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't stop talking about the ... - MSN

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer loves talking about the 1,400 toilets and urinals inside the new $2 billion Intuit Dome he built for his LA Clippers. read more

Experts: IBM's $34B buy of NC-based Red Hat not quite a done deal

“Just because the U.S. has cleared, it doesn’t mean there’s clear sailing in other jurisdictions." ... read more

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't stop talking about the bathrooms at his new $2 billion sports stadium - AOL

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer loves talking about the 1,400 toilets and urinals inside the new $2 billion Intuit Dome he built for his LA Clippers. read more

Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer quits board after buying Clippers - New York Post

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is leaving the software giant’s board and severing his last official tie to the company he ran for 14 years ... read more

IBM to Acquire Red Hat for About $33 Billion - WSJ - The Wall Street ...

IBM agreed to buy software-and-services company Red Hat for about $33 billion, a deal that Chief Executive Ginni Rometty hopes will boost a cloud-computing business central to an effort to revive ... read more

IBM’s CEO gives a shout out to Red Hat - WRAL TechWire

Arvind Krishna, IBM's chair and executive officer, singled out Raleigh-based Red Hat for praise during Big Blue's earnings conference call with analysts on Wednesday even as the tech giant ... read more

IBM’s $34B plan to build a “hybrid cloud” - Marketplace

But IBM got out of the personal computer businesses in 2005. Those ThinkPads are now built and sold by Chinese company Lenovo. Recently, IBM has been pulling in less money than it used to. read more

IBM to buy Red Hat in $34 billion deal to shake up cloud computing - The Mercury News

RALEIGH, N.C. — IBM announced Sunday it will acquire North Carolina-based open-source software company Red Hat in a $34 billion stock deal that the technology and consulting giant’s chief ... read more

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Clippers for $2B - USA TODAY

But Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month that he would not want to move the Clippers, should he buy them, because that would hurt the team's value. read more