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Re:Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Mid... by tatsuke95 on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:32PM (#4009802)
I can't help but be disturbed that you've lumped Microsoft in with Facebook and Yahoo...twice.

Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world, makes a wide variety of products, both physical and digital, did $17BB in revenue in the first quarter of 2012, and has been a public company for over 25 years, returning massive value to its investors.

So what do they have in common?

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Re:Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Mid... by jacquesm on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:59PM (#4010310)
That new ideas and innovation can kill them.

Likely in the case of microsoft it will cause them to change, along the lines of how microsoft forced IBM to change.

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Re:Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Mid... by tatsuke95 on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:25PM (#4010643)
>"That new ideas and innovation can kill them."

What company on the planet does this not apply to?

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