Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
According to this blog post Google gives their employees $1 a day to advertise on Google. The intent is to give employees the perspective of an Adwords user in order to improve the product. In addition to giving employees exposure to Adwords, this also has potential to increase the competition ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Although it's wonderful to think that we will be able to colonize other worlds when we grow too numerous or run out of resources, it may not happen. It seems that given the level of current weapons and state of the world we will more likely try to conquer each ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Since when did printers stop coming with the cables? Does this have anything to do with printers being available in USB form and the manufacturers suddenly assuming that everyone already has USB cables? Or is it some agreement that they have with merchants that requires me to pay $20 for ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
A little unexpected but I think this was the right decision for Microsoft for a couple of reasons:
1. Jerry Yang was doing everything in his power to prevent MS from acquiring Yahoo - what type of message does that send and how must the employees of Yahoo feel if their ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I'm not sure why no one is pointing this out but it seems that as soon as EA acquires T2, the T2 folks would just leave to create a new studio. They seem independent and I doubt that they'd want to work for EA. And although EA would get the ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Response to: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_004775.html
The author is giving 2 reasons for the acquisition:1. The short term reason is to force Intel to give Apple price cuts for fear that Apple will make their own chips.
- I do not think that Intel needs to worry about Apple manufacturing their own PC chips as ...
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