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Mark Zuckerberg’s fluency in Mandarin is legendary. Yet, despite all his efforts learning and speaking the language to impress President Xi Jinping, he couldn’t convince Beijing that Whatsapp is a harmless application. WhatsApp was one of the few foreign messaging apps available in mainland China until it was blocked before the Communist Party congress gets […]
... written on Nov 23 2017Microsoft cut 4,000 jobs two months ago in July. If you think that was bad, wait until you hear tech giant Hewlett Packard’s (HP) plan. Despite recent Street-beating third-quarter results that saw the company’s stock jump 5%, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is planning to put thousands of its employees jobless – scheduled by year end – […]
... written on Sep 23 2017Feeling nostalgia about recently released Nokia 3310 but the phone wasn’t smart enough for you? You’re not alone. Those who had experienced Nokia phone in the 1990s probably have gotten sick and tired of Apple iPhone, Samsung or China-made cheap phones. There could be millions of former Nokia supporters who wish they could get their […]
... written on Aug 17 2017U.S. stock markets have gone bonkers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at its 8th straight record high on Friday. The DJIA is now at record high – above 22,000 – and already people are talking and singing about 23,000, and beyond, as if the musical chairs game will never stop. It will stop eventually, […]
... written on Aug 07 2017Depending on your time zone, you might have gotten the official notification from your immediate superior of your layoff, if you’re under Microsoft payroll and not currently selling Azure – the Microsoft’s cloud computing product. And if you’re outside of United States, your chance of getting retrenched is at 75%, as compared to only 25% […]
... written on Jul 07 2017In yet another proof that job security doesn’t exist anymore, tech giant Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees – worldwide. Despite earning US$23.56 in revenue and net profit of US$5.7 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2017, Microsoft would not think twice about retrenching its employees, if that would bring more […]
... written on Jul 04 2017Forbes has just released its compilation of the richest person in every state of the United States of America. The U.S. has more billionaires than any other country in the world, at least that was what Forbes claims. China would, of course, dispute this claim as a different study showed the Middle Kingdom of China […]
... written on Jun 22 2017Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and the world’s richest man, never got a college degree. Not that he cares, but getting a degree wasn’t his priority when most students would be fighting tooth and nail to get into Harvard. He met fellow student Steve Ballmer at Harvard. Unlike Ballmer who stayed and graduated, Gates left […]
... written on May 17 2017When you login on Monday for work, and your computer happens to be running on older versions Microsoft’s Windows such as Windows XP, chances are you could be staring at a screen screaming “pay me money to get your data back”. Call it blackmail, extortion or anything you like, but there’s no way you can […]
... written on May 15 2017Back in 2007, he was estimated to have a fortune of US$40 billion, making him the richest man in Europe. Five years later in 2012, his wealth jumped to US$70 billion, pushing him to world’s top spot. Two years ago in 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin was already the world’s richest man, accumulating a staggering […]
... written on Feb 21 2017
