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Microsoft could be the world’s first trillion dollar company
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| 27 December 2016
| Nick Farrell
Posted on 12/29/2016 6:28:59 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It will not be Apple after all
Microsofts $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn means that the software giant is on track to become the worlds 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.
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 medias 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 cant 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 arent accredited investors.
Based on those numbers, we cant 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 arent 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. Microsofts cloud platform Azure and its Surface products have helped rebuild the companys reputation as a tech powerhouse.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech; windowspinglist
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Argh. As if LinkedIn didn’t suck enough as it is...
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posted on
12/29/2016 6:31:28 PM PST
by
chrisser
To: Liz; Grampa Dave; NormsRevenge; TigersEye; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; BenLurkin; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
12/29/2016 6:41:49 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Having my fungus and eating it too.)
To: Fungi
I assume it is a Company Name....
Goggle says a Vole is a meadow mouse,...a small critter.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Voles main source of food is hypogeous fungi.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:00:12 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Having my fungus and eating it too.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“...Vole will have to leap over ... media favorite Apple”
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“Media favorite” Apple? They must be reading different media than me. Apple is less popular with the media than Trump.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:27:44 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
To: Fungi
Voles main source of food is hypogeous fungi. At my house, it was tulip bulbs, seemingly.
We gave up "feeding" them years ago.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:31:17 PM PST
by
thulldud
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Response from Seattle Computer Products: Oops.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:49:15 PM PST
by
TChad
(Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought Sinopec was already a triilion dollar company.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:03:29 PM PST
by
henkster
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; ...
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posted on
12/29/2016 9:33:12 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Swordmaker
Hey Swordmaker, you'll get a kick out of this one. Particularly: "...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..."
Humor for a Thursday evening... can't wait to see how Redmond manages to more than double. Anything's possible, I suppose.
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posted on
12/29/2016 9:38:45 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I also have no clue what “Vole” is.
Article does not say when it will reach $1 trillion. Next year, next decade?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But, but, but Microsoft can’t afford pay Americans competitive wages so they need MORE H-1b visas. /SARCASM
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posted on
12/30/2016 6:52:03 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Apple makes billion dollar profits and uses suicidal coolies to make their phones then imports them duty free to sell to unemployed US citizens.
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posted on
12/30/2016 6:54:46 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
US Government is a multi-trillion dollar industry.
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posted on
12/30/2016 6:55:48 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Steven Scharf
I also have no clue what Vole is.Apparently, you never lived in a old farmhouse near a cornfield:)
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posted on
12/30/2016 6:57:45 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
That is a common field mouse and I have lots of experience with them.
To: Steven Scharf
The common field mouse is a vole and not a mouse. Favorite food of black snakes the world over.
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posted on
12/30/2016 9:26:56 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: henkster
Sinopec is a quasi-publicly traded company with its assets guaranteed by the Chinese government. As such it, like FNMA is not in competition for “1st trillion dollar company.” There are several such quasi-government/publicly traded companies with values over $1 trillion.
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posted on
12/30/2016 10:26:38 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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