The 2019 letter from a Microsoft Corp. engineer reporting an affair with Bill Gates that preceded his exit from the board wasn't the first time some Microsoft directors encountered the billionaire's inappropriate behavior with female employees.
Microsoft executives had asked Bill Gates more than a decade ago to stop "inappropriate" emails to a female staffer in 2008 while he was still at the helm of the tech giant, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc.
In what would be the biggest Internet deal since the ill- fated Time Warner-AOL merger, Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board on Thursday night to offer $31 per share in cash and stock.
The price is a 62 percent premium over Yahoo’s Thursday close, but only about a quarter of what the Internet company was worth at the height of the dotcom bubble in 2000.