Google wins

A quick postscript to the situation regarding recently laid-off Microsoft "Ambassador to Startups" Don Dodge. As reported in this piece last week, Dodge had the cream of Silicon Valley beating a path to his door to recruit his services. Of them, he nominated Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter as the companies he'd consider working for.

In what must rank as one of the shortest periods of unemployment for an individual since the onset of the recession,

Here's hoping that's the experience for several million more workers out there.

--Posted by Phil Stott, Vault.com