Despite being well-diversified, Motorola will for now on be viewed by investors as a mobile phone company. For it’s part in the overall handset game, Motorola has a declining share of a market whose growth is rapidly deflating. They have missed several of the...
The most brutal thing about WebVan going kaput is that George Shaheen, otherwise known as the guy who fucked WebVan in the first place, is one of the company’s major creditors. When they fired him they triggered a clause in his contract that stipulates that they...
The solution to these companies’ present woes is simple: consolidation. They’re not in trouble yet but there will be. Each has something the other lacks, and given that the horizon for significant market penetration will be delayed by one year it will...
I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010307/tc/yahoo_outlook_6.html Wednesday March 7 7:00 PM ET Yahoo! CEO Tim Koogle To Step Down By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Business Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Tim Koogle is stepping aside as chief executive of struggling Internet...
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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