Technology Industry Archive

Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don’t all CEOs follow this playbook? We’ve heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a report from Forrester is just the latest to repeat the downturn playbook. Forrester Research analyst...

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Yahoo tries to find a path — At this point, any direction might be better than the tail spinning for Yahoo, which is considering CEOs with no Internet or media experience. Could it be because anyone already in the field and qualified to do the job is ducking phone calls? At least someone has some confidence: Carl Icahn has raised his stake in the company to 5.5 percent of outstanding...

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Reports on Black Friday sales have largely agreed on some basics. But the more you dig into the numbers, the more obvious it is that we’re seeing some particularly ugly business conditions, because one figure out of context doesn’t tell you everything you need to know. Start with the raw numbers. According to AP, store sales on the day after Thanksgiving were up three percent over...

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Fred Wilson of Union Square ventures had an interesting post titled Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies. He quoted Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal CEO, expressing concern “that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies.” Wilson writes that the change is inevitable and based on marginal costs of content copies. I agree that it is inevitable, but think that the...

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