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Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by dis-sys on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:10AM (#33033802)
> Bloomberg IS a tech company.

This is like saying Microsoft is a charity - worst joke I heard in Sept 2022.

Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by cochne on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:25AM (#33033938)
I think it’s a tech company. They employ lots of software engineers who develop a software product which is their central business. Why do you think it is not a tech company?
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by monkpit on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:08AM (#33034353)
It’s sort of like saying Amazon is a delivery company. It’s part of a division of their company, and a main component at that. But it’s not like SREs working at AWS know or care about logistics.
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by cochne on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:11AM (#33035949)
I don't really understand the parallel. It's not like software engineers at Bloomberg really know or care all that much about finance. The vast majority just work on the software product that moves financial information.
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by monkpit on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:34PM (#33037963)
The parallel is to say Bloomberg journalists are tech experts because “it’s a tech company”. The journalists are just journalists
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by colinmhayes on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:36AM (#33036306)
Amazon is a logistics company though. Solving logistics is pretty much the entire value add of the retail arm.
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by achenet on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:40AM (#33035528)
uh, Bloomberg's original business was selling computer systems.

" Bloomberg developed and built his own computerized system to provide real-time market data, financial calculations and other financial analytics to Wall Street firms. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.

Microsoft's original thing was NOT philanthropy.

Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by MrMan on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:12AM (#33034401)
there is no such thing as a tech company except maybe biotech or other R&d based businesses.