"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Angry rants about the demise of corporate culture aren't reserved only for ex-Goldman Sachs employees. Microsoft-turned-Google engineer James Whittaker -- now once again a Microsoft employee -- fired off a scathing blast Tuesday on a Microsoft blog about why he left Google. "My last three months working for Google was a whirlwind of desperation," wrote Whittaker, who headed the engineering team for social network Google+. 'The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.' " - Lit

I posted this tweet earlier today: Google+ needs to be ripped out of the innards of Google entirely -- a huge mistake. And another: Google has lost sight of its core mission: to organize all the knowledge in the world. It's floundering and foundering. - Sean McBride