Is it Too Late for Sam Zell to Save the Tribune Company?
July 4, 2008
L.A. Times Newsroom to Shrink by 150 Jobs | www.nytimes.com
Massive debt + no real plan + continued business decline = big trouble
3-D Cinema: A Three-Way Format War
July 3, 2008
Digital cinema 3-D | mkpe.com
1. Real D, Dolby and NuVision battle it out over ease of use, technology and business model 2. The number of 3-D Cinema installations is tiny compared to the total number of screens worldwide… there is an extensive market waiting to be exploited.
Not so fast for mission critical apps.
June 18, 2008
Is Google your next data center? | www.computerworld.com
Some things will be cloud based, MSFT, GOOG and AMZN are all betting on it. for middle market companies having computing in the cloud may make sense. But it comes with risk
Worst Quarter Ever for Newpapers in Print and Online
June 17, 2008
Newspapers' Print Ads Declined 14% in Record Drop | www.bloomberg.com
Newspapers are failing on both fronts. They are in a severe print advertising recession. And online sales are slowing -- up a mere 7% vs. industry-wide growth of 24%. Falling revenues make reducing debt at Tribune more difficult and put dividends at risk at McClatchy, Gatehouse and Lee.
June 12, 2008
The L.A. Times's Human Wrecking Ball | www.washingtonpost.com
Amid falling ad revenues, is Sam Zell destroying the LA Times (and other Tribune papers) by cutting news pages, making newsroom decisions based on quantity not quality of reporting, facilitating the exits of his best staff and dumbing down his papers beyond recognition?
May 30, 2008
Godrej industries net profit up 185 percent | in.news.yahoo.com
Godrej Industries, is a highly diversified $1.87 billion conglomerate. Godrej Cosumer Products, also has a sales volume, of over $1.1billion and operates in various CPG/FMCG categories in a 7-8% growth market in India. Godrej's varied and disparate businesses, operate in a market catering to India's growing middle-class, of nearly 250 million newly affluent consumers.
Yahoo's Pain is Micosoft's (and of course Google's) Gain
May 12, 2008
Yahoo under pressure after deal collapse | www.ft.com
Sure, Google gets the best out of the deal with a weakened Yahoo and a non-strengthened Microsoft, but I'm not sure if this deal would have been good for Microsoft anyway. They showed a lack of brutish eagerness that has hurt Yahoo, near fatally, and that hurt could help Microsoft climb up the search ladder at Yahoo's expense.
What a Mess! Deutsche Telekom ponders Sprint Nextel and a Wireless Wasteland
May 12, 2008
Deutsche Telekom May Bid for Sprint Nextel | online.wsj.com
Buyers beware is an understatement with Sprint Nextel. They have so many gashes in their underbelly that I have difficulty seeing how they could be a worthwhile acquisition, unless the price drops much further. T-Mobile is not in a powerful position in the market, and combining the two seems more foolhardy than a power move.
Yahoo's Glue is a Good Move, but the User Experience will Determine Success
May 12, 2008
Yahoo! India launches Glue Pages Beta | www.business-standard.com
Yahoo's move into Yahoo Glue is a smart concession in the basic textual search world and a desire to innovate the search experience. Good for them. But this is a complicated delivery in a world dominated by simple user experiences, and that is what Yahoo must concentrate on in order to succeed.
Facebook profiles at Work is another Step in the Social Web (Web 2.0)
May 12, 2008
Facebook users willing to let employers see profiles | www.reuters.com
Employees posting full profiles at work certainly poses dangers to employees, should they be arrogantly drawn and rudely sketched. But this and other elements of the Social Web allow for benefits to both employee and employer. More importantly, this two-way conversation is inevitable, so it is better to embrace and understand as opposed to ignore.
February 7, 2012
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
November 22, 2011