Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist'

Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by htormey on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:35PM (#16673659)

I think it will hit them as well, just not to the same extent as Facebook & Google.

Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which is an advertising company. I also seem to recall that they make a reasonable chunk of change from search advertising and other online properties.

According to this link they took in a little over 6 billion in advertising revenue last year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...

According to this link, amazon took in somewhere in the region of 1.7 billion in revenue from mainly advertising last quarter alone:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...

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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by ModernMech on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:01PM (#16674903)

Microsoft for example has several billion dollar businesses aside from Windows, Office, and enterprise. Their Surface and Xbox hardware, for example, pulls in that much revenue each. They'll be fine.

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