Bill's Eye on the Eye?

摘要

There's absolutely no truth to it." "It's not happening." "There's no deal. No one's looking at a deal." So declared the various spokespersons for Microsoft, CBS and its parent, Westing-house Electric, dismissing a report that the ubiquitous Microsoft Corp. was eyeing yet another acquisition—the venerable CBS television network, worth some $14 billion. Westinghouse's stock jumped nearly 10 percent on the supposed news, before felling back in the face of emphatic denials. But it was a testament to Microsoft's power that for several hours last Tuesday, the technology world all but stopped as analysts, investors, reporters and managers scrambled to sort fact from fiction.