Microsoft Tallies True Costs of M&A Boom: Layoffs, Write-Offs, Shut-Downs, Economic Decline

From Wolf Street:

As the M&A boom in the US explodes from record to record, with one mega-merger succeeding another, Microsoft clarified on Wednesday just how much all this fun costs down the road, in jobs and dollars: relating mostly to its acquisition of Nokia, it announced a second wave of layoffs, write-offs, and shut-downs.

http://wolfstreet.com/2015/07/09/microsoft-tallies-the-true-costs-of-the-ma-boom-layoffs-write-offs-shut-downs-and-economic-decline/