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Trump Says Broadcom Is Moving Headquarters To US From Singapore (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: President Donald Trump said semiconductor company Broadcom Ltd. is returning its headquarters to the U.S. from Singapore. Broadcom Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan joined Trump Thursday in the Oval Office for the announcement. Tan said the move to domicile the company in the U.S. would bring $20 billion in revenue into the country. The two men didn't specify the site of the new main location. Broadcom's website lists San Jose, California, as an existing corporate co-headquarters and has done so since the present company was created in 2016 in one of the semiconductor industry's largest acquisitions when Avago Technologies Ltd. acquired then-Broadcom Corp. The company's shares declined as much as 4 percent to $248.87 after the announcement. The stock had gained 47 percent this year through Wednesday's close.
Yeah, we should all know better by now.
he said
More American job opportunities for engineers is great news. Letâ(TM)s just accept that as good news. No need to politicize more jobs.
The CEO don't sound so Murican to me. #MSGA!
*sniffle* the russians*sniffle*
So less Broadcom moving and more US parent company consolidating assets? Doesn't even say they are closing the Singapore office though. Sounds like another Trump circlejerk fluff piece like the poors saps at the Carrier plant that thought they were keeping their jobs.
...That this has something to do with the ongoing legal battle between Apple & Broadcom. Something like, if Broadcom is a U.S. based company then they can get the ITC to block Apple importing any iPhones due to alleged patent infringement. Any takers?
The funniest part was the bit about the stock prices. Not just the hilarious and unclear description of the price gyrations, but the insane underlying assumption that the stock prices have any linkage to reality. Today's stock prices are only linked to the fantasy of selling the shares at a higher price, with NO relation to the underlying realities of the property that is supposedly owned by the shares. Actually, most of the shares these years are for fake entities that are just holding companies for random bags of other companies, with a few real companies somewhere at the bottom. Some of the real companies may be producing real products or real services, but most of them are producing illusions like the value of Apple's latest and greatest and most profitable iPhone.
Remember there is no gawd but profit, and Apple is gawd's chief prophet.
That's according to Forbes for 2016. The rest of the top 10 include Gilead, Alphabet (AKA the google), Exxon, and some huge gamblers (AKA financial speculators playing games with other people's money and having socialized loss insurance since they're now "too big to fail" (assuming the federal government is still big enough to bail them out when they do fail again)).
Me? I think we should have tax policies designed to increase freedom. Make companies smaller so we can have smaller government. Make companies smaller so we have more choice and freedom. Make companies smaller so they have smaller profits! Oh, wait. I forgot profit is gawd.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
That was my first thought - they go from being presented as a litigious off shore company to a domestic technology powerhouse that is worried about protecting it's IP.
All by moving an office; the actual engineers and IP isn't going anywhere.
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Anyone here ever work there? I hear it's kind of a rough place to work.
Twitler says a lot of things. 90% of what he's said has ended up being lies. But he called Cruz "Lying Ted." It it wasn't so sad it'd be funny.
But you Regressivetards will keep defending him no matter what. I know you'll stand by your principles and not buy health care for yourself under the ACA when you get cancer or something similarly serious.
See subject: Our president's doing great work helping put folks in the USA to work in new jobs - my hat's off to the man for it.
APK
P.S.=> There is NO arguing with success on his end & this is only 1 of MANY such things our good President is doing... apk
Broadcom is a Singapore company that is trying to acquire (not merge with) *Brocade*.
"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and people would still vote for me."
This is what your God Trump thinks of you, fuckers. Basically, he told you to your face that you're all fucking morons, and you proved him right.
Maybe next time you won't choose a fucking psychopath as your presidential candidate. But I doubt it.
A photo opp will not defend Donald Trump from the many indictments related to his collusion with Russia.
This explains more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/11/02/trump-announces-broadcom-moving-legal-hq-u-s/825600001
2 GENDERS...
2 TERMS!!
WTH is a country's purported leader doing taking time out of his supposedly busy schedule to do some glad-handing with businesses? What's next, "Trump congratulates McDonald's on opening a new outlet two blocks from the white house"? "Trump visits local KFC to sample latest artery-clogging concoction. 'It's great,really great.'"? "Trump poses with gas-guzzling car maker mucky-mucks after blocking Tesla's attempt to sell cars in another hick state"?
They’ve been building that location off the 405 for about 4 years.
See subject: I never liked or voted for either Bush (or Obama) but I am all for what President Trump's primary focus has been - putting people to work in new jobs (which he has delivered on) - man's a businessman (which is what the BUSINESS of the USA needed) & he means business + executes excellently on that very front, no questions asked.
APK
P.S.=> As to your illogical off-topic ad hominem attack & projecting your OWN issues onto me? Give up - not even a 'nice try'... apk
Whatever - you & "yours" (unidentifiable "ne'er-do-wells") LOST - get over it!
APK
P.S.=> Racist ass? Wtf did I say in my post you replied to that is "RACIS" (lol) your "trump card" for LOSERS (like you)... apk
Impeach Donald Trump Now
I could just as easily say "three more years" and have about the same chance of being correct."
You're still pulling the same identity politics shit and you'll get the same results.
Impeach Donald J. Trump: The Million American Petition
I do enjoy my slaves. every night. every position.
How are yours?
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His name is Chris
Broadcom is a Singapore company that is trying to acquire (not merge with) *Brocade*.
To be extra confusing, The "new" Broadcom was a Singapore company named Avago, that bought a US based company named Broadcom and after they did that, they renamed themselves Broadcom (although their stock trading symbol is still AVGO). The "new" Broadcom (was Avago), is now trying to buy Brocade (another US based company).
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If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.
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You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?
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As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
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That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.
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Considering the kind of people that live on 5th Avenue, I would move to Chicago to vote for him twice
They should move across from Apple HQ so they can save on postage and hand deliver the copyright infringement notices.
Donald Trump LIVED on fifth avenue. So you hate fifth avenue people so much that you elected one president ?
You are such a fucking dumbass. Or a fucking troll, which is even worse.
Why are they allowed to live anywhere on the planet and I'm not? Why can't I "domicile" myself in a country with a healthcare system? We should kill all the elites and burn it all down.
The *correct* headline should read "Broadcom CEO Announces Moving Headquarters To US In Meeting With Trump". If the CEO announces it, then there is no heresay or second-hand information, as the title implied.
> semiconductor company Broadcom Ltd. is returning its headquarters to the U.S. from Singapore
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>The company's shares declined as much as 4 percent to $248.87 after the announcement.
MAGA!
I fail to see why this quote would put Trump in a bad light. It seems to show quite a good understanding of the American voters.
No endorsement of Trump intended, I'm on the other side of the pond and can only say that collectively, you're getting what you paid for. Sadly it impacts the rest of the world as well...
The hardware will be there, but will still require a binary blob to provide any kind of useful function.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
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It wasn't intended to put TRUMP in a bad light, except maybe to confirm that he's a ruthless, compassionless, unethical sociopath.
It's intended to shed light on the sorry state of democracy in the U.S. and, since I have no reason to beleive that americans are any worse than anybody else, in the world in general.
Broadcoms current strategy seems to be mostly built on buying out other companies, so likely there are deals in the pipeline that would benefit from them being a US company as well.
Don't worry, you're getting screwed over just as much as everybody else.
Actually, most of us voted for the OTHER woman in the race. It was only the quirk of the Electoral Collage that gave us this knob.
The embarrassing part is that a significant portion of the U.S. still think he's a good idea. When I saw the reports on the White Lives Matter demonstration in Tenn., I thought I would puke me guts out. Glorifying Nazis, as they did, was a kick in the gut to those who lost family members in WWII in Europe. That told the rest of America that they had thrown the American ideals out the window.
Why am I the only one mad about it?
Because no one cares about your fake Internet rage.
In my mind, this is a good partnership. After all, Broadcom is like the Trump of chip manufacturers. Overhyped underdelivered crap. I'm surprised the Broadcom chips aren't Dorito red. If Trump had access to the wl STA drivers, he would withold them and be a jerk about it for like a decade just to be annoying too.
I want wireless firmware that works in any Linux distro out the box. I am tired of using reverse engineered junk drivers that can't use the advanced features off the chip like AP and monitor mode. Don't even get me started on ndiswrapper. You jerks are responsible for this. I bought your damn chip and you're going to tell me how to use it? Are you in cahoots with MS to keep Linux home desktop saturation low or something? Your products have been out basically unchanged for over a decade now, give us halfway decent Linux support. Sheesh.
I avoid your products whenever I can. Made in Murrika won't change that.