BusinessWeek Online -- Eye on Asia:
Sony's Kazuo Hirai has a lot of ideas about what he would do if it had an iTunes-like online store. The company wouldn't just sell digital music, movies and books for Sony products, said Hirai, executive vice-president for networked products and services. It would also try to connect users with each other.Hirai, who unveile (Read More)
BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst t (Read More)
Business Week:
Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about borrowing a bit of other companies’ mojo. On Nov, 18, he introduced the software company’s latest product, a business collaboration tool that takes pages from the playbooks of Facebook and Twitter.Salesforce will begin selling the new software, called Chat (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Given its recent string of lousy financial reports, its weak platform strategy and declining share of the the global handset market, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Sony Ericsson began sacking employees again. And it did just that this morning, announcing plans to shutter its Research Triangle Park facility i (Read More)
All Things Digital:
While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can’t just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies (such as my Facebook how-do-you-do here), so I hightailed it several hundred feet and directly across Connecticut Avenue NW to visit with Jeff Chester.For those who don’t know him, Chester is the executive director of the Center fo (Read More)
trendsspotting blog:
The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen ‘unfriend’ as its word of the year. To ‘unfriend’ means to remove someone from your friend list on a social network like Facebook or MySpace (and we extend that to a similar pattern of “unfollow” in Twitter). “Defriend” came in as a close rival, but unfriend takes it one st (Read More)
BBC:
Facebook is under fire this morning, accused of neglecting its responsibility to help to keep young internet users safe. The charge comes from Jim Gamble of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, who wants Facebook (and MySpace) to follow the lead of Bebo in including Ceop's "Report button" in its social netwo (Read More)
Business Week:
My 11-year-old son had a dilemma last night. He had zipped through the first two books in the Twilight series and was keen to start on the third, Eclipse. But the book my wife quickly picked up at the library was in Spanish. Oops. So we tried an experiment. Two weeks ago, I won a Sony Reader Pocket Edition in a raffle. It’s (Read More)
Seth's Blog:
There are only two ways to win in the market.You can create a breakthrough. A promotion so powerful that people can't help but engage. An innovation so remarkable, people can't help but talk about it. A pricing strategy or ad campaign that breaks the mold and is worthy of attention. This takes huge guts and substantial inve (Read More)
PSFK:
Over the next two months, PSFK will be hosting Redscout's SPUR video series. It will explore the intersection of brands, strategy, innovation and the world of account planning. We hope to spark a lively discussion, and inspire those working in the field. (Read More)
Business Week:
Cisco has sweetened its acquisition offer for Norway-based videoconferencing company Tandberg by 11%, to $3.4 billion. That should be enough to satisfy the 90%-plus of investors who had withheld their support for the existing deal. The company says more than 40% of Tandberg shareholders, including the largest ones, have "pr (Read More)
BusinessWeek Online -- NussbaumOnDesign:
Fareed Zakaria wrote an excellent book, The Post American World: The Rise of the Rest, in which he said the relative decline of the U.S. was due to political, not economic problems. As someone who's covered the global economy for decades, and as an old Political Science major, the argument never satisfied. Fareed was right (Read More)
All Things Digital:
QOTD: Ain’t No Way to Make a Living … [Digital Daily]
You’ve got to have Internet Explorer 8 to use Web slices … shoot, I didn’t even know there was a 1 through 7.”
–Dolly Parton endorses Internet Explorer 8
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