" [About Ballmer] He failed to close the deal to buy Yahoo. This year, Ballmer steered the company into an ill-advised $8.5 billion to buy Skype." So buying Ya

" [About Ballmer] He failed to close the deal to buy Yahoo. This year, Ballmer steered the company into an ill-advised $8.5 billion to buy Skype." So buying Yahoo was a good thing and buying Skype was ill-advised? This is a very tabloid-esque article: while I am not a big fan of Groupon's business model, I wouldn't call Andrew Mason one of the worst CEO's in tech. This seems to be more of a rant on companies that the author has seen getting bad press, rather than the actual qualities of the CEO's running them... Elop for instance - the reason he is named is because the author thinks the new Nokia WP phone will fail (without even seeing the phone). The man has been in charge for what, less than a year? Nokias dropping market is likely a result of years of stagnation in the feature phone segment, not quite Elop's fault - at least wait till he has time to make an impact before judging him (i.e. a couple months after the new phones launch)