Category: business
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“There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.” – Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
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I’m calling PSN’s bluff
After leaving their customers’ personal information wide open to attack on unsecured servers running ancient software, Sony’s lawyers decided to simply make their customers sign away the right to make claims for damage done by Sony’s negligence. If you don’t want to do so, you must send a “clear statement” about it via postal mail.…
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Ail to the Chief: 20 CEOs and State Heads Gone in 2010-11
Updated – It’s a bad time to be in charge. Lots of major companies have dropped CEOs for unpleasant causes in 2010-11: Company Person Why They’re Gone Apple Steve Jobs http://zeke.ws/ogcSIO BP Tony Hayward http://zeke.ws/mUhrNd Google Eric Schmidt http://zeke.ws/p2N5TL HP Mark Hurd http://zeke.ws/pYoID5 Léo Apotheker http://zeke.ws/n3vsbI Nokia Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo http://zeke.ws/rgtWOI T-Mobile USA Robert Dotson http://zeke.ws/oeozcx Yahoo! Carol…
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Music, movie, and software piracy is a market failure, not a legal one
This comes as no surprise. From Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law: Trademark and copyright holders frequently characterize piracy as a legal failure, arguing that tougher laws and increased enforcement are needed to stem infringing activity. But a new global study on piracy, backed by Canada’s International Development Research…
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How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?
If it takes the Times $40 million to put a CSS overlay over their text, I have no sympathy for them. The Times’ reporting is unparalleled; their management will be their undoing. Link
Zeke Weeks 