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I like reading articles, but I definitely like reading the comments more. Here is an example of a comment putting the article in a whole new context. We read a standard puff piece, how company ( Caterpillar ) is having tough times, but they have a hot new product, analyst says it will [...]
July 24th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
We’ve got to make clear, here, that a foreclosure hurts every American,” he told CNN.
No, it doesn’t.
Foreclosures are a natural way of the system healing itself. If you drink too much, a hangover is the body’s way of trying to return to normal.
The best thing for foreclosures is not to try to stop [...]
February 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The car companies want us to pour money down a rathole. I fully expect that to happen, as the administration does not have the guts to say ‘NO’. The companies threaten liquidation if they don’t get the cash. I think that’s fine. Let them go. If we are worried about unemployment, let’s just give the [...]
February 18th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Some choice comments from an LA Times article:
Katie Ittner, a hairstylist at Awilda Salon on Robertson Boulevard, said she had a client who called in tears because she could no longer afford to spend $95 to $250 to get her hair colored and had no idea how to do the job herself.
On a recent weekday [...]
February 17th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Coke is always introducing new products, and this one is causing some ire. Coke basically takes a lightly carbonated beverage, tosses in a some vitamins (vitamin powder to be exact) and packages it like a medicine (meaning so splashy graphics or cartoon characters). The CSPI, a respected scientific organization, objects and sues them.
The unexplored story [...]
January 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
With the emergence of the Internet and now with TV over Mobile, traditional broadcasters have become more irrelevant.
Here is a great post from NY Observer on how to watch the 2009 Presidential Inauguration Online
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This post supposed to be a cogent analysis of the hunger problems facing North Korea, and how most famines are man-made. A Nobel prize in Economics have been awarded on this topic, to Indian economist Amartya Sen.
But instead it has degenerated into trying to find pictures of giant bunnies on the big bad web.
It all [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This could be a huge story: an online software provider decides to buy 40,000 licenses. This is the kind of story that propels a small company towards an IPO.
Webguild.com, a website with 73,000 unique visitors per month, put up an article that dumps on Google, saying that GE picked a competitor’s product.
But there are several [...]
November 10th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
In previous posts I had written about how the electric car company Tesla’s choice to manufacture its own cars in San Jose, CA was a huge mistake. I had also written about how the decision by the City of San Jose to give Tesla all sorts of freebies was a dumb idea.
Today I see an [...]
October 12th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
On the left I have a screenshot about Highland dancing. I am not sure what it is, but even if you win at it, it doesn’t matter. Just like the electric car race. Even if Tesla ‘wins’, it will be immediately run over by the big guys.
Yesterday I blogged about how Tesla should not have [...]
September 25th, 2008 | Posted in Business Strategy, Uncategorized | No Comments