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Microsoft CEO Takes Aim at Google

Ballmer says Google's Internet-ad dominance won't last

By Jim O'Neill, Newser User

Posted Mar 7, 2008 10:39 AM CST

(Newser) – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did an animated, sometimes antic, on-stage interview yesterday at Mix, Microsoft’s annual conference for web developers, emphasizing that he has every intention of taking some of Google's advertising business and using Yahoo to do it, the Seattle Times reports. "... Read full story »

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