Business archive

February 14, 2008

RIM should buy LinkedIn

There has been a lot of talk about “LinkedIn”:http://www.linkedin.com/ (IPO, “News Corp buyout”:http://venturebeat.com/2007/11/27/source-yes-linkedin-and-news-corp-are-working-on-a-deal/, Facebook buyout). “Jim Balsillie”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Balsillie just gave a presentation at the GSMA World…

October 4, 2007

Stop trying to kill the iPhone

“Verizon”:http://www.verizonwireless.com is launching a very sleek touch screen phone from LG called the Voyager. “We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It…

July 16, 2007

Sliced Bread and Cows

Many people don’t like “Seth Godin”:http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ because he is responsible for the term Viral Marketing. Some people don’t like him because of his bald head….

May 17, 2007

Flight Status Notification = Useless

Signing up for flight notifications on airline sites is a total waste of time. Last night while flying from Boston to Toronto I asked “aircanada.com”:http://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/traveller/mobile/notification.html…

May 10, 2007

Yahoo! spring cleaning

“Yahoo! is doing some spring cleaning.”:http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-05-09T160632Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-297354-1.xml They announced today they would be “retiring” Yahoo! Auctions. No real surprise. Traffic stunk versus EBay. It was a…