Roundup: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft, Tweeting a plane crash, music video fighting and more
Here’s the latest action:
The layoff bug about to hit Microsoft? - The software giant has thus far avoided the layoffs that some of its competitors have had to succumb to in the rough economic climate, but that’s about to change, according to the blog Mini-Microsoft. They’re hearing January 15 could be the day it goes down, and we have a seperate source hearing the same thing. On that day the bottom "10 percent-ers" (presumably, those performing the worst) could be gone - as many as 5,000 to 10,000 employees. Damn.
Tweeting after a plane crash - Over the weekend, a Continental flight in Denver slid off the runway and caught on fire. Luckily no one was killed, but several people were hurt and one passenger, Mike Wilson, used Twitter to talk through the ordeal as it was happening. Needless to say, the press is all over him now.