by Jeff Caruso

Ballmer opens mouth, inserts foot

Opinion

Oct 16, 20081 min

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offhandedly said that an acquisition of Yahoo would make economic sense, and Yahoo’s stock had a nice and immediate bump. Unfortunately, Microsoft was forced to issue a statement saying that there were no discussions with Yahoo going on.

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