Microsoft Corporation Likely To Announce Job Cuts

15JulJuly 15, 2014

Microsoft Corporation Likely To Announce Job Cuts

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) workers beware: job cuts could be on the way as early as this week.

Microsoft to cut more than 5,000 jobs
The tech giant could be announcing more than 5,000 job cuts, with marketing and engineering divisions seeing the ax, particularly in the global Xbox team and in its UK-based European group. Citing people with knowledge of the company’s plans,

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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