Posts tagged Business

The Move Will Help Create Sustainable Growth in the Global Economy

United Vision Marketing Firm, in a press release :

United Vision Marketing Firms CEO announces today that they are making an offer to Research In Motion (RIM) to acquire its Black Berry assets. The decision was made to acquire RIM after a strategy session with UVMF’s board members and consultants and the announcement by RIM’s new CEO of a possible sell of the company. [...]

One trend that Dr. Pearson has been more vocal about in past interviews is what he called “making country cool” in rap music. [...]

Now the 37 year old innovator is headed to Wall Street with the copyrights to prove that he is the owner of what he calls “Corporate Hip Hop” and once again he is pushing the concept through the entertainment business.

RIM should accept the offer, I don’t think there will be another one.

 

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The Patients Are Running the Asylum

Roger Martin, RIM Director:

I laugh at the vast majority of critics when they say ‘Oh, you should have made this CEO transition, like, four years ago.’ Yeah, right – like, to who?

So we’re supposed to hand it over to children, or morons from the outside who will destroy the company?

He’s right. The customers can’t get it in their heads that Blackberry devices are perfect. And the investors … well, they’re all morons.

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The bizarro-Motorola

MG Siegler:

In order to acquire such a company at the market price Google sets, it would take something like $14 trillion.

Via parislemon

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Yahoo!

Dan Frommer:

Actually, it’s pretty amazing that Yahoo is still around and is still one of the biggest Internet companies in the world.

Via SplatF

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HP’s plan

The WebOS saga continues, even after they made the big announcement.

Todd Bradley, Leader HP Personal Systems Group, August 30, 2011:

Tablet computing is a segment of the market that’s relevant, absolutely.

HP spokesman, August 31, 2011:

The speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning. We have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand

Obviously, this is all part of the bigger picture and it fits right in HP’s one year plan:

Let’s say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here’s how you do it

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The Man-Made Miracle of Oil from Sand

Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine:

Standing on the edge of the immense and spectacular pit of an oil sands mine for the first time last week, I was surprised by a sense of exhilaration. Later, seven stories up, equipped with earplugs, and clad in bright blue overalls, I marveled at the cascades of black bitumen froth bubbling over the sides of a seperation cell like a giant witch’s cauldron. The scale of the enterprise and the sheer ingenuity involved in wresting value and sustenance from the hands of a stingy Mother Nature provoked in me a feeling close to glory.

Full article at reason.com

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The US stock market bargain bin

Chicken Little:

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Panic selling of U.S. common stocks is the wrong answer to the political bickering in Washington and the S&P downgrade of US credit rating. Fundamentals should be the basis of investment, and today’s market and companies are nowhere near the meltdown in 2008. The latest earnings season was great for a lot of American corporate icons.

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Why Rob Delaney Bought Some Stocks Yesterday

Rob Delaney:

What I am saying is that I believe in me, and I believe in you and I believe in elbow grease, objectivity and history. Did you see the recession coming? Did it announce itself and tell you the date it would arrive? No, it did not. Nor will recovery. So quit whining. Pessimism is for losers.

I did exactly the same yesterday. For exactly the same reasons.

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The long, sad story of Ask.com

  • March, 2005: IAC announces plans to buy Ask Jeeves
  • April, 2005: Nothing significant happens for almost a year
  • February, 2006: In a landmark move to improve user experience and search quality, Ask drops its butler mascot
  • May, 2006: Influenced by IAC, Green Giant brand drops its mascot in an effort to improve the quality of canned peas—comes to senses 30 minutes later and reinstates the giant (OK, I made that one up)Qe at doing exactly the same thing a year earlier
  • March, 2007: The South Park kids announce to the world that nobody uses Ask Jeeves in the “The Snuke” episode
  • April, 2007: Ask’s creative shop Crispin Porter & Bogusky effectively generates awareness of a term no one understands or cares about—”the algorithm”
  • May, 2007: The Algorithm fails to find itself an audience– in spite of media initiatives from May 2006 to May 2007 Ask.Com percent of US searches falls to 3.92% from 4.40% according to Hitwise
  • June, 2007: Ask 3D is launched in response to Google’s Universal Search
  • July, 2007: No one hears about 3D ever again. Wall Street Journal runs a piece on search engines, Ask.com Is not referenced
  • October, 2007: Ask Launches PPC Bid Platform 2.0—the exact number of advertisers who noticed the change
  • December, 2007: Hoping to capitalize on media hyped privacy panic; Ask offers to delete search data even if people don’t opt out after 18 months
  • January, 2008: Nothing really happens until Ask closes its search doors over 2 years later

Full article at Advertising Age http://lnkd.ca/ch

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Meet iPad’s competition

Via Section Design (http://lnkd.ca/4n)

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