While in the process of cutting no less than 5,000 jobs by mid-2010, Microsoft claims that it will hire thousands of people on new positions that the company is yet to create, this year alone. Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, has failed to specify exactly the number of new workers that the software giant will r... |
2 April 2009
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Microsoft is crediting foreign employees working with the company as having a huge contribution compared to native workers. Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, expressed the Redmond company's continuous support and commitment to hiring non-US citizens via H-1B visas to fill in roles for which there is a short... |
1 April 2009
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Microsoft is calling out for governments and businesses to steer clear of protectionist policies, despite their potential appeal in the context of the global economic downturn. The Redmond company, through the voice of General Counsel Brad Smith, indicated that a strong focus on sustaining social responsibility actio... |
26 March 2009
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While various watchdog groups have raised concerns over Microsoft benefiting from a portion of the US federal stimulus funds in order to finance half of a bridge designed to connect one side of its Redmond campus to another, the company applauded the fact that the new overpass connecting NE 36th Street and NE 31st St... |
25 March 2009
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Having missed revenue estimates by $900 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2009, Microsoft announced a series of cost-reduction measures, beginning with laying off a total of 5,000 employees over the course of the next 18 months. 1,400 jobs were cut in January 2009 alone and, as a direct consequence, the Redmond... |
4 March 2009
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Microsoft was one of the players who intervened into the matters of the U.S. House of Representatives, indicating a strong support for a piece of banking legislation designed to provide a breath of fresh air for the collapsing U.S. financial sector. In September, following the rejection of the first draft of the $700... |
6 October 2008
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Microsoft is starting to increasingly feel the heat emanating from the collapsing American financial sector and, in this context, the Redmond company has emerged as a supporter of the $700 billion bailout plan put together by the U.S. Government. The software giant took a hit following the rejection of the financial... |
30 September 2008
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Microsoft is fighting to exorcise the evil out of the Google-Yahoo alliance. After Yahoo eluded Microsoft's $44.6 billion marriage proposal, it was quick to jump in bed with Google, and strike an online advertising and search partnership. The Redmond company failed to see any good in a combination of Google and ... |
15 July 2008
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Microsoft, the traditional anti-open source poster child, now embarked on a journey of interoperability, is stuck in a love/hate ballet with its direct OSS competitors. Long time situated at the opposite poles of the technology spectrum, in terms of the contrast between open source and proprietary software, the OSS c... |
26 March 2008
11:55 GMT |
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