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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To which Cisco replied "okay" and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.

Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter got Apple money right now?

Twitter's got so little money that they can't even pay all their bills, lol.

Honestly I think they rolled out the new branding without finishing it because they can't afford proper designers or project managers. The site still says "Twitter" all over the place and they can't even trademark the new logo.

[-] fonix232@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently they've hired an intern level designer then fired them after 2.5 weeks, once they handed in the design proposal.

[-] ElBarto777@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Microsoft doesn't have trillions. Where did you get that from?

[-] dawnerd@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is a 2.6T dollar company…

[-] threetimes@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Market capitalization means that every share of MSFT combined at the current price is worth $2.6T. The company has $100B cash on hand. That's actual cash and investments that could be easily converted to cash. Substantially less than $2 trillion.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but by that logic, Musk isn't a billionaire either.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And as a public company, Microsoft has a lot more options to leverage their equity than a private company or individual does.

[-] threetimes@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Musk owns stock worth billions. Stock is a liquid asset, meaning he has billions in liquid assets. The $2.6T market cap is what the public shares of MSFT are "worth." They are owned mostly by people and orgs other than Microsoft, meaning that value is not an asset to Microsoft.

Your comment is low-effort. Don't do that.

[-] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, only a $100 billion? Wow what poors, guess they're fucked.

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?

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