…yeah right. These guys will never go to jail. But AOL will go down in history as a Ponzi scheme that makes 80s Junk Bonds look like chicken feed. Actually, I found a good backgrounder on Ponzi schemes here: http://www.mark-knutson.com/thescheme.html -Ian....
AOL’s funky capitalization of what I believe are operating expenses — specifically, the cost of customer acquisition have raised eyebrows for years. But have they really reformed their ways? I don’t think so. Neither do some analysts. Interestingly,...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020515/tc_cn/napster_ceo _quits_as_sale_rejected Napster CEO quits as sale rejected Wed May 15, 1:14 AM ET John Borland CNET News.com Napster (news – web sites) Chief Executive Konrad Hilbers is stepping...
Back to Business.. Looks like the uprising of consumers against the Music Industry has taken a fairly heavy blow. The Music Industry equivalents to Che Guevara and Fidel Castro have both been snapped up by legitimate companies with similarly legitimate (and legal)...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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