Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

Why leave elite status in China to be wannabe middle class engineer . better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

Not to worry about China; China has a history of preserving people and culture artifacts that are worth saving. Everyone else will contribute to the greater good. Bribery and money laundering are part of the culture, and so, US is a beneficiary in receiving both brain trust and money. The best and brightest are escaping mainland. Ask the QC engineers who are from China. Most comes from social elite background, which is kind of ironic in the communistic society.

it's not a solution if it's only available to oligarchs and other crooks who are able to launder money out of China. For everybody else, your welcome for the spinach. Hope it solves your smog problem.

China has a solution for air pollution, by escaping to US, Australia, Canada, and wherever there is clean environment. For those who cannot leave, they are importing food from US.

China's credit bubble will pop soon enough. Or they will all choke to death first on the National Fumes. Either way it will take everybody down, sharks and ramoras

QC will become the whipping boy, answering to whatever China demands. =====

“Qualcomm is realising that the best strategy is not to get in the way of China’s rise, but to tag along and be as useful as possible.”

EU Bunga Bunga! where's strauss-khan and berlusconi now? They see "Qua..." and think Quaaludes.

Three-way is definitely a possibility with NDRC, KFTC, and US-FTC. Maybe EU wants to join the party, too.

Sure, maybe the Korea FTC wants a 3 way with those 2 hotties in the corner. Doesn't mean they will get what they want.

Yes, you got a point. China liked the abuse but wanted a discount, because they are coming back for more. Now everybody wants a discount.

maybe it's just foreplay, bordering on kink. they obviously like the abuse, cause they dole out a fine on behalf of their swingers club members, who will still pay the cover charge (licensing fees, but with 35% groupon discount).

Two consenting adults can consent to exchange of drug, sex, S&M, etc. Some are legal and some are not, regardless what two adults want to consent to. QC is found to be abusive in several countries, and scrutiny continues extending to every continent on Earth.

simply change the conversation. Ragson is anti-innovation and wants to devalue patents. Patents aren't an asset subject to bubble pricing, like say, the housing market. Patent licensing reflects the will of two consenting adults, and are the most efficient and liquid of markets. If those Bears don't understand, play the nostalgia card of technology enablement, how QC outslugged the established 2G tyrants. QC won't reinvent the wheel (or carousel), but can license these innovations on mutually beneficial terms.

Below is mentioned in the article. It might take another 20 years to set up another market.

Stacy Rasgon, semiconductor industry analyst at Sanford Bernstein, says Qualcomm can command such high royalties due to a “good technology position and good lawyers, and the fact that they were able to put these agreements in place 20 years ago”.

“It is unlikely that they could replicate this business model today,” he adds.

Wow who eats factory farmed meat? Shopping at the Mira mesa Walmart for food? #smithfield

Patent revenue is stable and executives love to pay themselves dividends. Beats WORKING there. Always align your interests with execs at the worker bee's expense.

In the distant future, you will work for a company owned by a foreign company or government, you will live in a home owned by a company or foreign for which you pay rent to, and you will watch your tv shows on tv's made by foreign companies, and blog from computers and phones made by foreign companies, and eat food from companies like Smithfield that are now owned by foreign companies. Oh wait.

Hmm. How many new offices has QC opened in the U.S. recently? (Crickets chirping)