The Nexus of 2024

Tag: culture

  • Microsoft/Yahoo! roundup

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    Note: this thread summarizes what others are thinking, and my reactions. My opinion on the potential acquisition is here — and along with many others’, on MiniMSFT. Andy Borowitz has the biggest news: Obama to buy Yahoo! Other than that … Microsoft has been fined a record €899 million ($1.4 billion) for defying the EU’s…

  • Mashups and teaching dinosaurs to dance

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    The hot pink beanbag chairs are a dead giveaway: Ad Astra (Analysis and Development of Awesome STRAtegies) and Mashups are in the news! In the Yahoo!?!?! thread, Michael Foster posted about Jessica Mintz’ Microsoft-Yahoo could skip culture clash, relevant no matter how the potential acquisition came out: SEATTLE – Yahoo‘s walls are awash in bright…

  • So it’s not just me …

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    In an interesting study recently published in the Journal of Applies Psychology and summarized in British Pscyhological Society’s Research Digest: Male and female employees who said they had witnessed either the sexual harassment of female staff, or uncivil, rude or condescending behaviour towards them, tended to report lower psychological well-being and job satisfaction. In turn,…