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by leon on March 19, 2010
Warren Buffett can now add rock star to his CV. In an ad for Geico, the auto-insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett does a cameo appearance impersonating Guns N' Roses rocker Ax...
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by leon on March 17, 2010
Years ago, it was Google versus Yahoo. In recent times, that's changed to Google versus Facebook.And if the Financial Times is to be believed, Facebook has overtaken Google's popularity amo...
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by leon on March 14, 2010
Google is likely to close its Chinese search engine as talks with the Chinese authorities over Internet censorship reach an impasse. The Financial Times reports that Google is 99.9% certain to close...
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by leon on March 11, 2010
With tensions continuing to brew between the United States and China over Internet access, it's worth looking at the take-up of the Net in that part of the world. Indeed, there's every sign...
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by leon on March 9, 2010
India and China have transformed the world. But will India one day overtake China as the world economy's driving force?Commentator Chris Devonshire-Ellis certainly seems think so and his argume...
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by leon on March 5, 2010
A curious thing is happening in the airline industry. After losing billions of dollars in the global financial meltdown, more are starting to use sex to attract business.First we have the reports t...
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by leon on March 4, 2010
Should the military get access to Facebook and other social networking sites?That's a question many might be asking with reports that Israeli military authorities called off an arrest operation...
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by leon on March 3, 2010
The writing is on the wall for newspapers and magazines with reports that Americans are getting more news off the Internet than from the conventional sources of newspapers. According to the Pew Inte...
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by Donald Greg on February 28, 2010
Time is money. How much of your time do you want to spend rifling through papers and looking at lists of potential clients? That used to be the doorway to generating leads (and then sales). But goi...
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by leon on February 28, 2010
The iPad has been hailed as another nail of coffin of print.Indeed, in his book Print is Dead Jeff Gomez says the internet is killing print little-by-little by removing it as a necessity for most p...
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by leon on February 25, 2010
Google has been hit by a perfect storm in Europe.In Italy, a court has convicted three Google executives of privacy violations because they didn't act quickly enough to pull down an online vide...
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by leon on February 24, 2010
So Toyota's public relations nightmare continues as Congressional hearings begin into how the company screwed up on safety.In his prepared statement to Congress, Toyota president Akio Toyoda ad...
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by leon on February 22, 2010
Make way for cheaper breakfasts, even giveaways. That seems to be the only strategy left with breakfast sales in the United States falling as fewer people head into work. With unemployment rising, ...
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by leon on February 19, 2010
Signs that the recession has changed consumer behavior. If not forever, then at least for a long time.Look carefully at the results posted up by the world's biggest retailer, Wal Mart. As the N...
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by leon on February 17, 2010
Earlier this month, I looked at the possibility of EMI, the label behind artists like Robbie Williams and the Beatles, going bust. Terra Firma, the private equity firm that bought the world's m...
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by leon on February 14, 2010
Just days after launching it, Google has announced it is tweaking Google Buzz to address serious and legitimate privacy concerns. That's positive but the worrying part is the way Google launche...
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by leon on February 12, 2010
They're tall and elegant and are part of an industry that's worth millions of dollars. We're talking about camels here.The BBC has a fascinating report here about camel beauty contests ...
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by leon on February 12, 2010
With Toyota's woes going from bad to worse, with the price of recalled Toyota models falling, with Toyota being hit with another class action law suit from customers claiming the Lexus hybrid v...
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by leon on February 9, 2010
The battle between Google and Facebook is brewing. It will be ruthless, take no prisoners stuff.First, look at the deal between Microsoft's Bing and Facebook where Bing will Bing will power Web...
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by leon on February 6, 2010
Nearly three years after EMI, whose artists include Robbie Williams and the Beatles, was bought by private equity firm Terra Firm for £4.2 billion ($US6.5 billion) including debt, it looks like the...
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by leon on February 3, 2010
Good news for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation with the announcement that it has returned to profitability. But a closer examination of the numbers suggests there are some still some vulnerabl...
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by leon on February 1, 2010
Back in August, I did a blog entry explaining why Google and Apple were on a collision course with Google moving into mobile phones. The other interesting part is the clash in cultures. Google is a...
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by leon on January 30, 2010
What is it with corporations? Hasbro, the owners of Monopoly, have decided to give the 75 year old game a makeover which could make it even worse.As reported by pocket-lint, the board becomes circu...
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by leon on January 27, 2010
That's the question raised in this news report. According to Web analytics specialists, the microblogging site seems to have flatlined with 22 million visitors in December, down 770,000 on Augu...
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by leon on January 26, 2010
You have to hand it to Steve Jobs and Apple for timing and the way his company manipulates market sentiment. Apple can teach the car industry a thing or two.First, the company announces a 50% incre...
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by leon on January 22, 2010
Does Afghanistan amount to a US crusade or holy war? That would be the implication behind the involvement of US defence contractor Trijicon in that part of the world.We have already had reports tha...
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by leon on January 20, 2010
Much has been made about Google threatening to leave China, saying it will not tolerate censorship anymore and disclosing a sophisticated cyberattack on the e-mail accounts of advocates of human ri...
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by leon on January 17, 2010
Mintzberg, a long time critic of management practices, offers some more insights in his latest book.After observing 29 managers in different organizations, he makes the point that management has no...
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by leon on January 16, 2010
Men and women have different shopping habits. Every retailer knows that. The challenge is developing an offering that recognizes these differences.University of Michigan professor Daniel Kruger has...
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by leon on January 15, 2010
Last month, I looked at how the global water shortage would shape up as the great crisis, one as alarming as climate change. With most of the world running short of water by 2030, it will transform...
