The board is also considering replacing bill gates as chairman, possibly with John Thompson. He was the former ceo of symantec will stop this is according to people have been briefed on the process and how it has been going. Bloomberg told vision did it catch up with him after the web conference in paris and ask him about the ceo search. The microsoft board is working on the process. Steve ballmer is the ceo and im actively engaged in running the enterprise group. [inaudible] i said everything im going to say about that topic. We have Jon Erlichman from l. A. He helped to break this story. I will start with you. How close is the board to naming him and how did they come to this decision . We are pretty far along in this process and what a process it has been. This is something that began and we were notified last year in august that steve ulmer would be stepping down within 12 months. We thought there might be a decision by the end of the year and that didnt happen. The hope was to hav
The board is also considering replacing bill gates as chairman, possibly with John Thompson. He was the former ceo of symantec will stop this is according to people have been briefed on the process and how it has been going. Bloomberg told vision did it catch up with him after the web conference in paris and ask him about the ceo search. The microsoft board is working on the process. Ceo and imr is the actively engaged in running the enterprise group. [inaudible] i said everything im going to say about that topic. We have Jon Erlichman from l. A. He helped to break this story. Will start with you. How close is the board to naming him and how did they come to this decision . Far along intty this process and what a process it has been. This is something that began and we were notified last year in august that steve ulmer would be stepping down within 12 months. We thought there might be a decision by the end of the year and that didnt happen. Have this allo resolved by early 2014. If you
Wall street journal but joined me for an exclusive interview. I talked to the head of the antideaf mags league, abeprosmham this morning. Following up on a letter i sent over the weekend apologizing for the use of the word crystal knox. It was a terrible word to have chosen. I, like many, have tried to nderstand the 20th century and the incomprehensible evil of the holocaust. It cant be explained even to try to explain it is questionable. Its wrong. Its evil. Now, i used the word because during the occupy of San Francisco by the occupy wall reet crowd, they broke the windows in the wells fargo bank, they marched up to our automobile strip on van ness avenue and broke all the windows in all the luxury car dealerships. And i saw thats, irmed that the police just stood by frozen. And i thought, well, this is how crystal knox began. So that word was in my mind. I did, i dont necessarily need to read from this letter but if youre interested i can. Sure. Go ahead. Well, i deeply apologize th
Me and say facebook is great for gossiping and to see what my friends are in for lunch, but if you were to talk to somebody in the middle east, maybe, you would hear a different story facebook was providing access to news, people that had unique access to information that they were not able to get out otherwise. You get a much more meaty story about what facebook means to them. Facebook engineer chris cox with an insiders view of the company thanksgiving day on cspan. At 2 00 2 00, chief justice john roberts. Later, space pioneers and nash at nasa officials pay amash to the first man to walk on the moon, neil armstrong. Federer reserve chairman ben bernanke is in washington to negotiate a deal to avoid the socalled fiscal clef. Well speaking at the Economic Club of new york, he also called for an increase in the federal debt limit, st. A default could result in an economic crisis. Saying a default could result in an economic crisis. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. It is nice to jo
Them. And particularly in light of the force structure reductions, which are going to take place, weve got to make sure that we provide them the support system so they can return to their communities and to their families and be able to reestablish their lives. All of that is out there and all of that are issues that we have to think about and we have to be prepared in order to protect the National Security of this country. We have to be prepared to deal with. But tonight, i wanted to focus on the goal that still remains at the top of the priority list, as it must. Goal that the president made very clear, that we have a responsibility to disrupt, degrade, dismantle and ultimately defeat those who attacked america on 9 11. Al qaeda. Since september 11, 2001, our country has worked relentlessly to bring those responsible for the worst terrorist attacks in our history to justice. We have made very clear that we are at war with al qaeda. Weve also made clear in going after Osama Bin Laden