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Proprietary Gossip and Monopolies

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 26, 2023

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Leaked Internal Poll: Microsoft Employees Are Unhappy with Leadership

=> ↺ Leaked Internal Poll: Microsoft Employees Are Unhappy with Leadership

A leaked internal poll has revealed a significant drop in confidence among Microsoft employees towards the company's leadership. The poll results, which Business Insider shared, indicate a growing dissatisfaction among the workforce.

‘I thought layoffs were…’: Ex-LinkedIn staffer says this after being laid off

=> ↺ ‘I thought layoffs were…’: Ex-LinkedIn staffer says this after being laid off

A now-former LinkedIn employee, who was among the 716 people handed pink slips by the job-search platform in May, has remarked that until his own layoff, he thought of layoffs as a 'thing that one sees only in movies.'

2023-06-21 [Older] Amazon Allegedly Tricked Users Into Prime Subscriptions and Sabotaged Their Attempts to Cancel

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] Amazon Allegedly Tricked Users Into Prime Subscriptions and Sabotaged Their Attempts to Cancel

2023-06-21 [Older] FTC Sues Amazon for 'Tricking' Customers Into Prime Memberships - CNET

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] FTC Sues Amazon for 'Tricking' Customers Into Prime Memberships - CNET

2023-06-21 [Older] FTC sues Amazon for allegedly tricking customers into Prime subscriptions

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] FTC sues Amazon for allegedly tricking customers into Prime subscriptions

2023-06-21 [Older] The government is suing Amazon over how hard it is to cancel Prime

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] The government is suing Amazon over how hard it is to cancel Prime

2023-06-21 [Older] US agency sues Amazon for 'deceptive' practices

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] US agency sues Amazon for 'deceptive' practices

2023-06-21 [Older] Microsoft, U.S. Regulators Head to Court Over $69 Billion Deal That Could Reshape Video Gaming

=> ↺ 2023-06-21 [Older] Microsoft, U.S. Regulators Head to Court Over $69 Billion Deal That Could Reshape Video Gaming

2023-06-22 [Older] Hearing Over Microsoft's Takeover of Activision Blizzard Begins, With Bigwigs Set to Testify

=> ↺ 2023-06-22 [Older] Hearing Over Microsoft's Takeover of Activision Blizzard Begins, With Bigwigs Set to Testify

2023-06-17 [Older] Non-smoking gun found: PlayStation chief wasn't really worried about losing Call of Duty, ripping major hole in FTC's argument to block Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard [Ed: Well, it is quite revealing that Microsoft is again hiring this shill and lobbyist; they're going to die without this hostile (to gamers) takeover]

=> ↺ 2023-06-17 [Older] Non-smoking gun found: PlayStation chief wasn't really worried about losing Call of Duty, ripping major hole in FTC's argument to block Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard | ↺ again hiring this shill and lobbyist

2023-06-24 [Older] Game over at halftime for FTC: San Francisco injunction hearing in Microsoft-Activision merger case exposes evidentiary and intellectual bankruptcy of misguided agency's case [Ed: Microsoft's shill and lobbyist failing to disclose that Microsoft sponsors his shilling, basically an attack dog against regulators who butts in at Twitter to interject his paid-for lies]

=> ↺ 2023-06-24 [Older] Game over at halftime for FTC: San Francisco injunction hearing in Microsoft-Activision merger case exposes evidentiary and intellectual bankruptcy of misguided agency's case

Google to FTC: Microsoft locks users into Azure [Ed: Azure is failing, there are layoffs, but Microsoft hopes the bleeding will stop one day]

=> ↺ Google to FTC: Microsoft locks users into Azure

Microsoft is currently the second largest cloud provider in terms of market share, while Google trails behind as a distant third

In a complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, Google accused Microsoft of using its dominant position to trap customers into contracts within its Azure cloud server...

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