Microsoft Facing Criticism for Event Hosted Night Before Layoff Announcement

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Microsoft got Sting to play in Davos the night before announcing massive layoffs. The tech giant is facing backlash after hosting an event in swanky Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal described the event as an intimate gathering of "50 or so people" that included top executives at the company who were serenaded by the sweet sounds of 80's rocker Sting. Read More...

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Putin foe Browder slams jacked-up fee to attend Davos event

Bill Browder, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized the World Economic Forum on social media for jacking up his entrance fee to the annual meeting in Davos that he has attended for the last 27 years. Browder told The Associated Press that it was wasteful to pay a quarter of a million dollars for a ticket and he thought organizers of the elite gathering in the Swiss Alps didn’t want him around. A former manager with the Hermitage Fund, a large Russian investment fund, Browder says he has set aside his commercial activities and devotes his time to getting justice for his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was tortured and killed in Russian police custody in 2009, and other victims of human rights abuses.