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May 21st, 2008

Paying Employees to Quit

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Zappos, the much-acclaimed online shoe store actually pays new employees to quit. Why? They are looking for committed employees that get the Zappos company culture instead of just bailing out. Many of their employees are Twitter [...]

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March 7th, 2008

Google Microsoft bidding for Digg?

Google and Microsoft were purportedly involved in an open bidding war for Digg. Numbers like $200-225 million are being flung around. Digg CEO Jay Adelson however is terming those rumors as “completely inaccurate”. Or is Kevin Rose simply holding out for more?

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March 3rd, 2008

Coming soon - Apple’s E-Book Reader?

After rocking the music and the phone industry with the iPod and iPhone, is Steve Jobs training his eyes on the e-book reader market? His offhand dismissal of Amazon’s Kindle at the recent Macworld only sought to reinforce the rumor. Be ready, bibliophiles.

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February 2nd, 2008

Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

In an unsurprising move, Microsoft made a bid to buy Yahoo in order to increase its role in the World Wide Web with an astronomical offer of $44.6 billion. Traditionally, Microsoft has been relied on desktop software like its hallmark product, Windows and other ancillary softwares like Office, etc. It hasn’t made a serious dent [...]

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January 28th, 2008

MPAA reports statistical error

“The 2005 study had incorrectly concluded that 44 percent of the motion picture industry’s domestic losses were attributable to piracy by college students. The 2007 study will report that number to be approximately 15 percent” [source (PDF link)]. With all those millions, the MPAA can’t even read their numbers right?

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December 4th, 2007

The Technology Bubble

To make up for today’s video which I was told is almost a year old, feast your eyes on this spanking new video by The Richter Scales on the current technology bubble. Catchy music and apt lyrics. If you don’t believe we are in a bubble, then this video is for you:

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November 27th, 2007

Facebook owes a Christmas gift

Facebook owes Mike’s son a surprise Christmas gift. Beware of this relatively unknown privacy breach on Facebook and make sure to opt-out.

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November 12th, 2007

Google, Apple, and Intel buying Sprint

Everyone is getting cellular-crazy. Apple, Google, and Intel are apparently in partnership to buy Sprint.

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October 30th, 2007

Automattic Resists $200 Acquisition Offer

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, turns down $200 million. If Facebook is valued at $15 billion, I’m sure Automattic is worth much more; it just doesn’t have everyone in one place which IMO is a good thing for the Web.

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October 29th, 2007

Mukesh Ambani - Richest in the World

Thanks to a bullish run at the BSE and Sensex crossing the 20K mark, Mukeshbhai is now the richest man in the world with a net worth of $63.2 billion. The question is, will he stay there for long given the volatile nature of stocks market in recent times?

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October 25th, 2007

Logo Redesign

Ever notice when a company wants to overhaul its image, it doesn’t start at the point of customer contact but rather with its logo. Hence graphic designers are in great demand but not all do a great job. Take a look at the best and the worst of logo redesigns.

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October 22nd, 2007

Ease of Doing Business Ranking

In spite of liberalization, India still ranks a pathetic 120th in the world on the scale of ease of doing business. Even nations like Saudi Arabia (23) and Pakistan (76) rank much higher. New Zealand is ranked #1. Update: The full list of measures can be found here.

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October 21st, 2007

Ownership in Car Industry

With joint ventures and sharing of manufacturer lines and shareholders, the question of who owns who gets increasingly blurry. Take a look at this chart of the automobile industry.

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October 19th, 2007

Caring for your consumers

Customer buys shoes from an online store (ZAPPOS) for mom. Mom dies. ZAPPOS not only sends UPS to pick up the shoes thanks to a free returns policy but also send flowers. Nice to see some love for consumers. They picked up a few hundred customers just from this simple act of kindness.

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October 16th, 2007

Radiohead’s Music Sale Experiment

Radiohead is experimenting with a ‘pay what you want’ model for their latest album. It might be perfectly rational to pay nothing at all but the ‘warm glow’ of buyers is averaging the sales price to around $8. Is this like offering the other cheek to combat piracy?

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