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Bruce Jaffe, who oversees Microsoft's acquisitions as its vice president of corporate development, is leaving the company, as first reported by tech gossip site Valleywag. Bloomberg News says his departure comes "as the company moves to give individual unit leaders more control over deals."
Here's the official statement from a company spokesman: "I can confirm that Bruce will be retiring from Microsoft, effective Feb. 29. Bruce's contribution to Microsoft's growth is much appreciated and we wish him well in his next endeavor."
No word on the nature of that next endeavor, although Valleywag reports that he may be launching his own startup. I'll post more details as available.
Deals completed during Jaffe's tenure included Microsoft's $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive, the largest in the Redmond company's history.
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