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Category: Investor Relations

  • Growth predictions for Second Life

    Last week, I wrote about Second Life’s growing pains with a conclusion that the combination of more users doing more things when online, and staying online longer on each visit, will likely lead to more grid downtime (such as the…

  • Could the 40% offer overload Thresher?

    It started as a Stormhoek Wine blog post, was picked up by bloggers, expanded into chat forums and, one week on, has now made BBC TV news. The 40 percent discount offer from the Thresher wine and spirits retailer could…

  • Steelworkers battle with Goodyear moves to YouTube

    The Wall Street Journal reports today on a long-running labour dispute in the US between the United Steelworkers union and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. What makes this dispute of special interest from the communication point of view is…

  • All change for Reader’s Digest

    News yesterday that a publishing house – almost an institution – is being sold to an investor group for $2.4 billion. Reuters reports that the Reader’s Digest Association is being acquired by buyout firm Ripplewood Holdings who leads the investor…

  • No happy ending for HP

    Could the good name and reputation of Hewlett-Packard be tarred with a similar brush to that of the likes of Enron and WorldCom? It’s looking a distinct possibility if the board room shenanigans that have ripped through the firm’s leadership…