Microsoft could be the world’s first trillion dollar company

It will not be Apple after all

Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn means that the software giant is on track to become the world’s first trillion dollar company.

Equities.com Analyst Michael Markowski claims that Microsoft will reach that threshold before other big companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. He thinks that Vole will use LinkedIn to become a leader in social media and the emerging crowdfunding industry.

To reach an American trillion, Vole will have to leap over Alphabet and the media’s favourite Apple, and more than double in value. Here is the list.

Apple: $622.6B
Alphabet: $549.7B
Microsoft: $489.3B
Amazon: $358.7B
Facebook: $337.6B

Based on those numbers, we can’t see how Microsoft is going to do it, but Markowski said it will be thanks to rulings from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which allowed crowdfunding by letting companies directly advertise to the public and allowing those who aren’t accredited investors.

He thinks that online crowdfunding will be the next technological revolution, on par with the creation of the internet, email, social media, smartphones and apps.

Markowski wrote that the great unwashed have an “insatiable appetite for making small bets and purchasing lottery tickets, etc., that provide the chance to make a big profit.

“The millennials will be a good example. Many will want to routinely invest $100 or even less into high-risk ventures that could produce returns of 10X to 100X.”

Vole will take advantage of this trend because it has a monopoly on the business social media sphere. Markowski predicts that all the big tech companies will eventually build services to facilitate crowdfunding investments.

Apple, on the other hand, is a hardware company and has very little direction it can go. Its shares peaked last year and the best it can hope for is to stablise. Microsoft has been doing well under Satya Nadella. The company stock hit a an all-time high in October and has continued to climb since then. Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and its Surface products have helped rebuild the company’s reputation as a tech powerhouse.

Apple makes billion dollar profits and uses suicidal coolies to make their phones then imports them duty free to sell to unemployed US citizens.

How many times are you going to repeat that lie? You've been provided the actual facts dozens of times before and yet you still repeat the lie.

The fact is that the plant where the spate of suicides occurred in 2010 was making Microsoft Xboxes, Nokia phones, Sony Playstations, and HP computers.

Not a single employee of FoxConn's working on Apple's assembly lines ever committed suicide. NOT ONE! In addition, the employees who worked on Apple products had to be high-school graduates at minimum and were not "coolies" a derogatory, offensive term for unskilled Asian field workers.

In addition, as you've been told with linked proof, the suicide rate among FoxConn's 1.5 million workers, was even during the highest period, far lower than the suicide rate among similar age groups in US Ivy League Universities by a factor of TEN!

So drop this FALSE hobby horse of yours you repeatedly post. You've been told and shown the facts, so quit posting the LIES.

The 2010 suicides prompted 20 Chinese universities to compile an 83-page report on Foxconn, which they described as a "labour camp." Interviews of 1,800 Foxconn workers at 12 factories found evidence of illegal overtime and failure to report accidents. The report also criticized Foxconn's management style, which it called inhumane and abusive.[3][3] Additionally, long working hours,[37] discrimination of mainland Chinese workers by their Taiwanese coworkers,[40] and a lack of working relationships[41] were all presented as potential problems in the university report.

A 2012 audit of Foxconn performed by the Fair Labor Association, at the request of Apple Inc., suggested that workplace accidents might be commonplace, and that workers may consider overtime pay insufficient.[42]

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Not a single thing in your cut and paste response proved anything about relative suicide rates, which of Foxxcoon's 24 plants they occurred at, or what was being made at that plant. Nor does it address the relative pay rates between Apple assembly lines (2.5 to 3 times higher per Apple's contracts) compared to other consumer electronic brands, or Apple's contractually imposed working conditions vis-a-vis other brands' requirements (virtually non-existent!). Nor did it mention the fact that of ALL consumer electronic makers, only Apple actually MONITORS working conditions on its assembly lines to assure compliance with those contractual requirements AND has pulled billion dollar contracts from contractors who have egregiously refused to comply with corrective measures.

That 2012 audit where you cite "workers consider overtime pay insufficient," actually cited the workers' dissatisfaction with the cut-back in opportunity for overtime hours, not the pay rate, which was instituted due to the 2010 University report which criticized the excess voluntary overtime hours workers were utilizing to often double their weekly hours worked, and limited overtime allowed to 20 hours per week and 60 per month. This lack of overtime cut into the money the workers had been routinely sending home to their families. China does not have a 1.5 overtime rate. Overtime in China is paid at regular hourly rates.

The suicide rate among FoxConn's workers in 2010 was 0.75 per 100,000 per year. The suicide rate among the same age cohorts in US Ivy League Universities is 11 per 100,000 per year. China's national suicide rate in that same age cohort is 8 per 100,000 per year! Young people are less inclined to commit suicide IF they have a job at Foxconn than if they work elsewhere!

In 2013, Foxconn had ZERO suicides among its 1.5 million employees, and only one in 2014.

But, but, but Microsoft can’t afford pay Americans competitive wages so they need MORE H-1b visas. /SARCASM

From an article I wrote here on FR over ten years ago:

So clearly, there has been a great rush to send all kinds of work overseas. But WHY? The usual answer is “To be cost competitive. We could not survive as a company if we continued to pay exorbitant American salaries.” Is this really true? Consider Microsoft. One of its managers, Brian Valentine, was quoted in a trade magazine as saying “Think India! Two for the price of one!” But before its big dividend payout, Microsoft was sitting on some $50 billion (with a “B”, folks)--in Cash. And essentially no debt. Are you telling me Microsoft has to pinch pennies on salaries, because they can’t afford to compete otherwise? Let’s do the math. MBA types like to talk about comparing expected return on investment to the “risk-free” rate of return, US Treasuries. If Microsoft had just invested that money into US Treasuries, even when interest rates bottomed out at about 2%, they would have had $1 billion /year, CASH, with which to pay American programmers. And this would have been without touching the principal and without affecting cash flow from continuing operations.

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