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Motley Fool Money: 07.18.2014

Motley Fool Money

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🗓️ 18 July 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft cuts 18,000 jobs. Mattel slips on Barbie bearishness. And Google climbs on stronger-than-expected revenues. Our analysts discuss those stories and share three stocks on their radar. And just how did LEGO go from near-bankruptcy to Everything is Awesome? Chris talks with Wharton Professor David Robertson, author of Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry.

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:07.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

0:19.0

That's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week

0:22.6

from Motley Fool One, Jason Moser from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early and for

0:26.7

a million-dollar portfolio, Ron Goss. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

0:29.7

Hey, you, you, you, you, you, we have got the latest news from healthcare, entertainment,

0:33.1

technology and more. We will go inside one of the biggest business turnarounds of the

0:37.0

past decade and as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks in our radar.

0:41.4

But we begin this week with a little company called Microsoft. In an email to employees

0:46.3

entitled, Starting to Evolve our organization and culture, CEO Sotheon Andela announced

0:52.0

that Microsoft will be cutting 18,000 jobs over the next year. Ron, most of these are coming

0:58.7

in the next six months and most of them, more than 12,000 of these jobs are in the Nokia

1:03.0

division. Little company, more little today that you said.

1:06.0

A little bit more. Yeah, definitely a little smaller. We've seen these reports for a week

1:11.2

or so, but the reports were that they were going to cut five or six thousand jobs first.

1:15.6

Were you surprised that the number was that high? Not really because I think it jives with

1:20.3

what Nadella is doing, which was moving away from the bomber era. He's changing the culture

1:25.7

and the focus of the company. Less layers of management moving away from hardware, moving

1:31.4

at the cloud and mobility. I have a feeling he wouldn't have done the Nokia deal at all

1:36.0

if he was at the helm at the time. So he's really making a big change to Microsoft. Perhaps

1:41.2

the biggest change Microsoft has ever under undergone underwent either way. Either way.

1:46.6

Underwent or has undergone right past part of the world with you.

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