Well, I guess I was somewhat correct about the short term win on Nortel. As you’ll recall from Monday, I bought my Nortel for about $0.72 and I just sold at today’s close for about $1.07 (US Priced). Not a bad return for a four day investment. I suspect...
George W. Bush should be glad that CNN and CNBC are being plastered with aerial shots of crime scenes from the random killings in and around DC. Before the Washington Sniper started popping suburbanites, America was just starting to get down to a serious discussion of...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/08/russia.tvshow.ap/index.html MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Russia’s biggest television station announced Tuesday it was teaming up with the country’s space agency to create a reality show that will be literally out of...
Interesting thesis: Let Them Die. The authors of the letter (careful, some are on this mailing list) advocate that the FCC (and, I guess, the SEC as well) not attempt to intervene with natural business cycles and to let the telecom companies die, go into bankruptcy,...
Pivotal Software, a Vancouver-based CRM company that had some success in the Enterprise market, hitched their wagon to a star: Microsoft. Now, normal logic would imply that this is a business strategy worthy of praise in any case, unless of course you are dealing with...
Steve V. forwarded me an AdWeek article last summer about BMW’s business case for BMWFilms.com …. essentially, the bmwfilms.com model allows BMW to hit a tighter demographic with a more sustained, viral campaign. They spend as much as they’d spend on...
Intertainer Shuts Down — Whither VOD? VentureReporter.net Friday, October 18, 2002, 7:10 PM ET by Ben Fritz Intertainer, the dominant player in the Internet video-on-demand (VOD) space, has shut its doors, most likely for good. The L.A.-based company raised...
Nortel is probably going to experience a rally today based on news of a Wireless deal in China worth $280M. But they could experience a more sustained rally over the next two weeks as rumours fly around about their intended reaction to their plight. Now, I have...
Hee hee. -Ian. —— http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/17/aol.discs/index.html Campaign: Send AOL CDs back From Rusty Dornin CNN EL CERRITO, California (CNN) –Don’t know what to do with all those unwanted America Online compact discs that...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,812942,00.html And the bland played on… Internet radio stations may have to shut up shop if record industry giants are allowed to demand retrospective revenues, writes Ashley Norris Thursday October 17, 2002...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
