Steve Ballmer praises Twitter job cuts after buying 4% stake in ailing micro-blab site Erstwhile Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed on Friday that he had recently acquired a 4 per cent stake in troubled micro-blurting site Twitter. The news came in a tweet from Ballmer who congratulated Twitter on its decision earlier this week to cut costs by lopping off 8 per cent of its workforce. Good job @twitter,@ …
"Steve Balmer shows the acumen and business knowledge that made both the Skype and Nokia deals such a great success for Miscrosoft."
Well, think about it. Microsoft invested in Nokia, de facto, by funding their development of WP phones. This while Nokia was busily digging its own grave in several different directions.
Several years later, Nokia bosses have dodged a number of bullets, Elop has eloped, and Microsoft has given them money for something they were having trouble giving away. Those bosses must still be looking at one another and saying "Did that really happen?"
So if I was part of the Twitter management I would be thinking that the Cunning Plan to get rich without ever being profitable is right on track.
is a funny thing.
It is wildly popular here, many performers and events use nothing else.
A hippy techno event I like at times has a site, but they never update it.
All on twatter. They seem to have forgotten that they have a web site.
Fascist friends have replaced their lovely archaic Japanese gig guide with a twatter 'feed'.
Twitter has ad space in train carriages, the posters claim 'we deliver the most rapid news'.
I think that it is good at delivering bullshit, really irritated that so many drink this variety of Jonestown cordial.
'tis a management meme: profit slippage demands layoff slips, from middle managers down to the loading dock grunts.
Actually, the perfect American company is one with only one worker at the site, whose sole function is to turn out the lights, lock the door, and report to the unemployment lines. Management promptly reports 100% profit increase, total reduction in expenditures, and glowing forecasts for acquisition $$.
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Maybe now he has 8%, he'll up the ante and keep buying larger chunks the more people they lay off (whose stocks get liquidated as the ship sinks). Then when it's worth nothing, he'll introduce cram the twitter.com with the highest paid banner ads, adware (Ballware) and who knows what other form of paid miscreance.
Then as he makes money from all the impressions and downed payloads, he'll harvest the customer database, cross-reference the active users it with the MS licensing database (that he so carefully maintained and would have no trouble accessing), and start a wholly owned subsidiary staffed by paying legal interns to begin 'the great licensing collection' that will has been on the cards ever since Bill told him not to chase 'doze users to death for fear of hindering it's evil spread. Bill turned out to be right like usual (they do now reap the rewards of near-global domination, and extraordinary global market-share). All before stage 2; in which they roll out the world's largest surveillance program (aka telemetry service) by which total domination is assured and stage 3 can commence... bwahahaaa
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