> Microsoft management had recommended shareholders voted against the motion.
Ok, cool, but what about the reasons for those actions? What kind of lazy journalism is this? I guess it's nice that we know that something is happening, but what about reaching out to people and asking them why so people can actually understand? For the love of Adam Smith, at least mention the involved countries!
Having a large shareholder indicate they will go with a shareholder proposal is the newsworthy part. It indicates there’s something that should be being addresssed by the board which isn’t already, which is publicly embarrassing for them.
I helped build a system that would estimate the vote for these large institutional investors because if a board tables a vote and a institutional investor votes against it, it’s a really bad look.
Saudi Arabia
Funny how most of the comments in this submission assumes it's about Israel, telling in more ways than one. This is why reporting has to be accurate :)
These are govt contracts and a lot of them have strict data sovereignty restrictions. Google has a big data center there for the exact reason to mop up this work. They also have an AI lab there.