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Intel Is Doing Fine Despite European Fine

Remember you heard it here first. When this thing gets into the appeals court, it will be overturned completely or the fine will be drastically reduced (to less than $100M). By the way, the fine was approximately $1.4Bn, not $1.6Bn.

The 15 Most Cash Rich Companies

That would have been good information to have included in the article....would have made it relevant.

The 15 Most Cash Rich Companies

On Mar 13 10:36 AM TeresaE wrote:

> It wasn't too long ago that GM had $25 billion in cash on their balance
> sheet too.
>
> And Microsoft seems to never climb in value. People just hate Bill
> Gates and I believe it has a lot to do with off shoring & importing
> cheaper foreign workers.

Microsoft was just listed as #38 on Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies To Work For" list. The average hourly worker at Microsoft makes $59,420/year and the average salaried worker makes $112,399/year. The benefits are also outstanding. They do have people in other countries but it is less than the % of their business that comes from non-US sources. If you are talking about H1B people, I would bet money they are paid virtually the same as other US workers. This charge against Microsoft is totally unfounded. I don't believe you know what you are talking about...I have never worked for Microsoft but I do own a little of their stock...

Intel's Classmate: Driving HP and Dell to AMD?

Intel will not sell classmates into the commercial marketplace in any meaningful way. Whoever wrote that article in the Phillipines is confused.....