Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That’s in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January.
Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said Wednesday the cuts are being made in offices around the globe. He would not say what specific product groups or job types are affected.
Gellos also says Microsoft had already let nearly all of the 5,000 go, in what was the company’s first-ever widespread layoffs.
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Microsoft on Wednesday said it has struck a deal with Twitter which enables real-time data from the micro-blogging service to appear in search results of Bing, the new search engine launched by Microsoft in June.
Microsoft executives made the announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit held in San Francisco, saying that a partnership with social networking website Facebook will come at a later date.
Microsoft didn’t disclose the financial terms of the Twitter deal, which the software giant said is non-exclusive.
With the deal, Microsoft now has access to the “entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search,” Paul Yiu of the Bing social search team said in a posting on the search engine’s blog.
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From the mid-1980s to 1999, a period that marked the rise of the PC, Microsoft made a lot of people rich: Its shares soared 59% a year.
But ever since the Internet became a legitimate force, the software giant has struggled to adapt to an increasingly web-based computing world — and its stock price has gone nowhere.
Can Microsoft thrive and find new sources of growth in a post-PC world, where its flagship software products become less dominant?
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