How $1 Billion Mobile Project Failed?
So, In 2010, Microsoft came up with a very weird but interesting idea!
And that was to create a social media-focused phone for ages 15–30.
To make this phone, they acquired Danger for $500M and spent another $
They are just experimenting with different projects. There's nothing wrong in that. Many of the side projects turned on to be the biggest succes. Only thing is that they should have surveyed whether there's any buyer or not
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