Steve Ballmer has a Facebook profile

Steve Ballmer was in Belgium today for a keynote speech at Microsoft Mix Essentials. Blogger Bruno Peeters of BVLG asked him if he had a Facebook profile.

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Steve Ballmer: "I do have a profile on Facebook. If you actually look, there's about ten Steve Ballmer, and I'm only one of them! I'm the one that has a picture that actually looks like me. I'll tell you again, I'm hitting a golf ball. That's the real Steve Ballmer. So yes, I do have a site on Facebook. I will tell you, it's hard to keep up, I get many friends requests of people I don't know (...) We obviously value our partnership with Facebook, we provide advertising services and technological services to help sell over half of the advertising inventory in Facebook. (...) Nowadays I get as many new invitations from new friends networks. And I expect to see a lot of innovation. As the minister said: when you encourage inclubation you also encourage competition (...) and that's a great thing."

That was the important question. On less important matter, a journalist asked him if he was still confident on the Yahoo offer.

Steve Ballmer: "I'm very confident that we've offered a very good price. There's not much new to say than that it's a good price. If you let us know, if you don't let us know, maybe your shareholders will think it's a good price. I like what we're doing in this case, because everything we say privately we're also saying publicly. So there's not much new, I think, for me to say today."