Archive for August, 2006
Reposted from FashionMojo because maybe it can go here too.
Nice guys finish last for a reason: they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. When the other guy starts breaking the rules, you have to fight fire with fire just to stay in the running, but that’s what Freddy was getting at when he […]
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Posted By: CT Moore | Aug 29th
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Cellular telephones and wireless BlackBerry email devices may be addictive, but most business executives insist mobile technology has improved the balance between their work and home, a study said on Thursday.
The study, by executive recruitment firm Korn/Ferry International, found four out of five executives globally are always connected to work through mobile devices, such as […]
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Not surprising to see lad mag FHM shed some staff in its print division to focus online. Read more.
From 2000-05, I was a part of the team at AskMen that took on FHM, Maxim, Esquire, GQ and company in the lifestyle space. They had so much more resources at their disposal, but they all threw […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Aug 28th
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It certainly sets a standard for cooperation and not competition. What’s odd is that eBay has a similar deal with Yahoo! domestically in the US, and now one with Google internationally.
What is also interesting is that Google’s Google Talk will play alongside eBay’s Skype, though initially when Google Talk was launched, it seemed to be […]
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[Editor’s Note: Original version has been modified on or about February 5, 2007.]
As a startup, you never want to get a lawyer’s letter. IT startups tend to push the envelope by using a lot of APIs and what not, but what about when you are a startup doing something that upsets a major corporation. That […]
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Isn’t it odd that MySpace is operating in the fastest growing space in advertising: the Web, yet it is planning to launch a magazine. Isn’t this the same media that so many have said was dead?
Obviously, magazines (and even, dare I say it, newspapers) will not disappear. But MySpace’s incentive to go into magazines has […]
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GAINING A FOOTHOLD IN THE booming Web video field, Sony Corp.’s Sony Entertainment Pictures is acquiring video-sharing site Grouper Networks for $65 million, the companies announced Wednesday.
For Sony, the deal represents a big bet on the future of viral video, especially as Grouper has little revenue and modest traffic so far. “We see this […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Aug 25th
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Interesting to see that both “lack of frequency of new content” and “explosion of user generated content” are blamed for the lack of loyal and large following for the online show.
According to Yahoo! - Richard Bangs had failed to build “a large and loyal audience” because of the roughly month-long gaps between new installments. During […]
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The deal was prompted, he says, largely by Apple’s realization that the navigation patent gave Creative a strong legal position, and that its countersuits weren’t likely to make much progress through the courts.
“Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in a joint statement with Creative. […]
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