{"id":22733,"date":"2011-05-27T06:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22733"},"modified":"2011-05-27T06:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:26:59","slug":"microsofts-ballmer-must-go-says-hedge-fund-tycoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/microsofts-ballmer-must-go-says-hedge-fund-tycoon.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Ballmer must go, says hedge fund tycoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; David Einhorn, the poker-playing hedge fund tycoon who made a fortune short-selling\u00a0Lehman Brothers, has turned his fire on\u00a0Microsoft boss\u00a0Steve Ballmer, accusing one of the toughest executives in corporate America of being &#8220;stuck in the past&#8221; and calling for him to go.<\/p>\n<p>Einhorn&#8217;s breathtaking public attack comes shortly after his Greenlight Capital fund raised its stake in Microsoft to 9m shares, or about 0.11%.&#8217;\u00a0However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer&#8217;s &#8220;Charlie Brown management&#8221;, referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/may\/26\/microsoft-boss-ballmer-must-quit-says-einhorn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; David Einhorn, the poker-playing hedge fund tycoon who made a fortune short-selling\u00a0Lehman Brothers, has turned his fire on\u00a0Microsoft boss\u00a0Steve Ballmer, accusing one of the toughest executives in corporate America of being &#8220;stuck in the past&#8221; and calling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22734,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions\/22734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}