http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.jsp?ticker=C631775&symbol=QCOM4246679 .......... Just 20% of the offering. Did all you employees manage to front-run the buybacks? Probably gotta drive up prices so the higher ups can dump... — read more
ALLPlay and Bluetooth
Good news + stock is slowly ticking up. Any doomsday a$$ clown Moron faaaags wanna comment?
I'm really disappointed they are talking about reigning in the executive health plan again.
It took awhile for me to get to where I enjoy it. I especially like the cash allowance. Didn't have to pay anything to get my kid's braces, using that cash allowance awhile ago.
You guys are being too hard on the CEO
That poor guy is working as hard as he can. YOU try finding a way to bail out water from a sinking ship when your busy counting your money.
Ya Baby! 10 cores!!!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/eb13020c-f8af-11e4-be00-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=traffic/partner/feed_headline/us_yahoo/auddev Because obviously having 10 cores is completely necessary in a cell phone, since there aren't more creative ways to drain a... — read more
There used to be a company called Qualcomm, and one day the son of the founder stepped down as a CEO, and handled it to a warehouse manager who
ruined it. He let the best of his engineers and managers leave the company, and rewarded the useless people, he messed up his relationship with his top customers Apple and Samsung. He had no vision; all he cared about, is his investors and his ego... — read more
China smartphone sales drop...
Looks like hardware is starting to saturate in China now too. That's not good for a company like ours that gets more than 50% from overseas sales. Like many people are saying, software is going to drive the next round of innovation and that's where... — read more
Time to Unionize?
What do you think?
Smell That? It's Spring aka 'PIP and Cut' Time Here at Qualcomm
Can you smell it in the air? It's classic Qualcomm take on Spring Cleaning. We've taken a standard cost cutting exercise and over complicated / over-engineered it so it now takes 90 days, generally involves a BS process for "improving your... — read more
Well bye bye birdie
Heard that Level one is being axed...
QC Samsung marriage issues
http://www.mobilecommercepress.com/qualcomm-to-provide-new-mobile-technology-to-samsung/8516368/ Rumors of being back together? LOL. Sounds like a fragile marriage.
QMT layoff
Whats going on there? Last day? Any packages given out? Beware of going to Pix....that place is doomed too and run by a monkey staff....literally
Another bites the dust... Nvidia exits baseband.
Not that this was really surprising since they had very little success with the Tegra 4i....But Nvidia, exits the baseband modem business... — read more
heard 3k - 5k being let go ?
Rumor mill has it: 3-5 K people will be let go.. that is a huge number.. Heard QMT folks got pink slips as well
Severance, pip, and lay-off
Let's talk about severance, pip, and lay-offs from HR's perspective. First if you have been picked into the group to be reduced. You usually will be given two options as mentioned before: A voluntary resignation (severance) package and pip. The... — read more
Jana's Rosenstein speaks again
http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2015/05/04/live-from-sohn-jana-defends-activism-qualcomm/ "Qualcomm has doubled headcount, contributing to a bloated cost structure, while R&D hasn’t been well managed, the board is over-tenured, and... — read more
What would be the actual Qualcomm stock value if it wasn't artificially inflated by the current plan for $15 billion share buyback?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3135386-qualcomm-sell-in-may-and-go-away
Farewell to Mirasol ... Does anyone remember who was the chief architec of pixtronix adquisition?
Nostalgia article about pixtronix adquisition http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261047
QMT shutdown
Question for the board here. Latest info is QMT will complete all shutdown activities by end of July. Looking at WARN notice for SD gov, there is no current notice of layoff from Qualcomm (as of 4/1) to SD gov. Does a shutdown count as a layoff?
Hey Steve, when are you going to set aside $1B, set up a secret lab and do something revolutionary?
Ellon Musk has his EVs, rockets and batteries, Jeff Bezos just launched his own rocket... Tim Cook has his apple watch and rumor has it he also wants to drive an iCAR, Google don't need drivers and wants to give Internet to the whole world ... — read more
Carpe Codem
Don't wanna wait til tomorrow, Why put it off another day? One more walk through problems, Built up, and stand in our way ,ah One step ahead, one step behind me Now you gotta run to get even Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday, hey C'mon... — read more
Sell Mirasol to Samsung
The sooner the better. There is 75% chance of this happening.
Can we stop with the this marketing selling point of N=N+1 number of cores on the app processor please?
I wish marketing would stop trying to pump the idea that an app processor's selling point is the number of cores. A phone doesn't need 8 cores, and while the idea about bragging about how many cores your chip has might have sold chips in the early... — read more
Cheating Lying Directors
How do we stop stupid a$$ directors from stealing IPs from good engineers? Case in point, I know one engineer who spent a considerable amount of time developing an IP, director liked it, went to the board and got rejected. Then this slimeball... — read more
Other engineering job opportunities in San Diego
Are there really no other decent options in San Diego other than Qualcomm? It would perhaps be difficult to find another company that offers the same benefits, but surely there must be other companies around?