Talking to the employees, the bossemphasized that theywere in the same boat; ifeveryoneworked hard, the firmwouldsurvive; otherwise it would have to close down.
The days when the Twitter mood fell in the calmness category, they found with 87.5% accuracy that they could predict whether the market wouldclose up or down between 2 and 6 days after a calmness reading was logged on Twitter.
But come lunch time, theywould run down to a basketball court that was close by, choose up sides for a 4 on 4 pickup game, go shirts and skins, and compete like they were both NBA teams.
But if a majority of BSkyB's independent shareholders were to vote against him, that would put the independent non-executives on BSkyB's board in a tricky position: according to a source close to the board, theywould almost certainly feel obliged to ask James Murdoch to stand down.