On March 12, 2010
Mexican’s Leading Low Fare Airline Now Owned by the Richest Man in the World
Usually you don't hear about an airline and rich people in the same sentence (unless you're talking about the bonus plans of execs), but now, the richest man in the world owns an airline. It's not that he just recently
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On March 12, 2010
How Will Boards Explain Their Lack of Women?
UK government moves to make companies account for the gender imbalance in the top jobs sounds impressive, but in practice will still be easy to dodge.
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On March 12, 2010
Worth Your Time This Week
Useful and/or intriguing ideas we've come across this week, plus the occasional worthwhile distraction.
The Internet's moment of truth
David Gelernter, Yale computer science professor and survivor of the Unabomber, has written a fascinating treatise on the future…
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On March 12, 2010
HTML 5 Video Out-Performs Adobe Flash… and Visa Versa
Apple says that it won't allow Adobe Flash on the iPhone or iPad because Flash is a CPU hog. And it's true - but the situation reverses on Windows machines.
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On March 12, 2010
Toyota and Lexus: A Tale of Twin Brands
There's a nice piece of brand analysis in the New York Times today comparing sales trends for Toyota and Lexus. According to Kelly Blue Book sales data, Toyota is down while Lexus is up. That's odd, because, of course, both
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On March 12, 2010
Gambling Sponsors Offer Soccer a Faustian Bargain: Cash Comes With Corruption
The choke-hold that online gambling sponsors have over soccer was writ large this week when Olympique Lyonnais complained that its sponsor, BetClic, was unfairly treated in a Champions League match. Betting web site sponsorships may bring cash to football, but
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On March 12, 2010
Tweets Hit 50 Million/Day; Where is the Money?
Twitter recently announced that its content volume has reached 50 million Tweets a day. But many in media are still trying to get a handle on how to best to measure Twitter's impact, let alone monetize the social media channel.
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Apple iPad Likely to Get a Multitasking Update
As Apple iPad preorders go live, sources say the biggest issue -- no multitasking -- will soon be a thing of the past. AppleInsider has heard that Apple's next mobile operating system, iPhone 4.0 O.S. , will support multitasking. The
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On March 12, 2010
How Individual Performance Scales Up
Featured Guest: Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate.
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On March 12, 2010
Google Announces Rich Snippets Progress
If the idea of influencing what shows up when your business appears as a search result on Google appeals to you, the search giant's taken a step that should prove quite useful. To be precise: Google's added support for microdata…
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