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7 Ways Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Is Completely Transformed

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It’s not even nine months into the Satya Nadella era of Microsoft and the new CEO is making his mark. Notably, his Microsoft is smaller after completing this week most of the 18,000 job cuts he announced in July. Whether Nadella’s plans for Microsoft succeed, it’s clear the company is dramatically different from the Microsoft…

China: Facebook not banned, but must follow the rules

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China may be blocking access to Facebook, but that doesn’t mean the social media network can’t one day enter the country, as long as it follows the rules, a top government official said on Thursday.Lu Wei, the director of China’s State Internet Information Office, made the comment at a press conference after media outlets had previously reported him saying that Facebook would never be allowed in the country.“The media claimed that I said ‘it would absolutely impossible.’ Today, I can tell you that this news is fake,” he said, according to a government transcript of his comments.To read this

"Getting Away With It" Is One Of The Hardest Business Skills To Learn

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I recently bumped into a business associate whose start-up I had written about, so I was familiar with much of the story that had led him to found a truly disruptive business. He had become exasperated by the slow pace of the industry he was in, and decided that his interests wouldn’t be served by playing the long game, and waiting patiently for his turn at the sharp end of the Company. In fact, he had begun to doubt if this particular Company even had a sharp end, such was the frustration he was experiencing.

EMC makes a late hybrid cloud play with triple acquisition

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Just when you thought EMC Corp. couldn’t be any busier, it’s gone and acquired no less than three cloud startups in one fell swoop – The Cloudscaling Group Inc., Maginatics Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. Apparently these weren’t impulsive … Continue reading →

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