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Groupon had a very good week
Facebook launched its new location based service ‘Places’ last week. Like many things with new Facebook products invasion of privacy was an issue. In the case of Facebook places it allows your friends to broadcast where you are and they … Continue reading
Colleges and Universities are all about marketing their brands
With our daughter a rising high school senior (when exactly did that expression become so popular?), our family is deep into college consideration. Having been through this with our son four years ago we have a little experience. But like … Continue reading
Holiday layaway plans are a bad deal – or are they?
Do you remember Christmas Clubs? During the Great Depression bank customers would put money aside each week into a special savings account and get it back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping. Sears has brought back this … Continue reading
Internet access at 35,000 feet – GoGo is just so so
I’ve been on a flight or maybe two that offered internet access this year but they were short flights – under 3 hours so it did not seem necessary. This past week I flew from the East Coast to the … Continue reading
Former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater is no kind of hero
Jet Blue got unlucky in having a long time employee snap on a flight earlier this week. Compelling story? Well it is an unusual that’s for sure. In fact Mr. Slater is ‘overwhelmed’ by the attention – http://nyti.ms/c1XE8M. In the … Continue reading
In Mark Hurd’s case the affair was not the thing
The news came blaring across this past Friday afternoon. Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd had abruptly resigned (or had been asked to resign more properly). This occurred after it was revealed that Mr. Hurd had not disclosed a ‘close personal relationship’ … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the World Today
Tagged H-P, Hewlett-Packard, Jodie Fisher, Mark Hurd, Tiger Woods
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American consumers cutting spending and increasing saving – and this is a bad thing?
It’s a bad thing for retailers. We’re also being told that it is a bad thing for job creation. More than half of all jobs are created by small businesses and many small businesses have used worldwide recession to teach … Continue reading
Do you have a bottle of Tabasco in your home?
I just had breakfast at the local diner and as usual I asked for Tabasco for my eggs. (Ok egg white omelet on the off chance my doctor might read this). Tabasco has been made by the McIlhenny Company out … Continue reading
Why would Tumblr like to be Twitter’s rival?
Even before I read the article in today’s New York Times (http://nyti.ms/aQ9oKV) I had some knowledge of Tumblr – http://www.tumblr.com. Yes I signed up. No I’m not exactly sure why. A blogging service based in NYC, Tumblr claims to want … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing stuff, Social Media
Tagged Facebook, Spark Capital, Tumblr, Tumblr revenue model, Twitter, Union Square Ventures, VC firms
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