In last Monday’s edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I spent a good 15 minutes in the show discussing the communication and employee relations challenges facing British Airways and Gate Gourmet following last week’s flight cancellations fiasco. The broader consequences of that fiasco will be pretty far reaching, starting with financial aspects […]
Category: Business
Hurdle-jumping with Linkedin
Two thought-provoking posts this week by two bloggers whose opinions I value have got me thinking about the pros and cons of connecting via business-focused social networks, and mirror some experiences of my own with LinkedIn. Last weekend, Renee Blodgett wrote about how some people abuse the linking process in Linkedin, quoting a view by […]
Rupert Murdoch’s long tail play
Financial Times: Rupert Murdoch has put two more internet companies on News Corporation’s list of desired acquisitions: Blinkx and IGN Entertainment. […] Talks to buy video search engine Blinkx are under way. IGN, a video gaming company considering an initial public offering or a sale, is also under consideration and could be valued at up […]
WordPress starts hosted blogging service
Announced at Blog Business Summit in San Francisco today – WordPress, the open-source (and free) blog publishing platform, has started a hosted blog publishing service. To participate, you need an invitation. What will the offering be? Free, like Blogger? Paid, like TypePad? No details yet but undoubtedly more will emerge very soon. (Hat tip: DL […]
They shall be heard!
Big news in Canada during the past few weeks has been a major labour dispute at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) which has seen programming disrupted as CBC has locked out many of the journalists and presenters from the workplace. So what’s this about? Not much on the CBC website to clearly explain it. As […]
Today’s rich biz-tech miscellany
A ten-minute scan of the headlines of the RSS feeds in my business and technology channels in FeedDemon produced this list of candidates that looks worth exploring: An Anchor by Evening, a Blogger Any Time Analysts: Google’s Talk Move May Shake the Market Blog tools tackle content management Carly Fiorina to Write Tell-All Customer Evangelism […]
Biz-Tech Headlines 27-Aug-05
As Blogging Grows, Companies Eye Legal Pitfalls BBC plans to put channels on net Blogger sued for comments others left on his blog Getting Real About Podcast Adoption New Web copyright tool to exclude non-IE users NewsGator Opens Online API to Public PayPal co-founder readies photo-sharing service Personal Search Site Adds Blogs Pixar Faces Informal […]
Microsoft snaps up Teleo
The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service. In a press release this morning, Microsoft said it plans to use this acquisition as a means to greatly extend the capabilities of MSN Messenger. An announcement on the Teleo website […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 5-Sept-05
$100,000 per year… blogging. 2012 Olympic posts advertised Apple Appears Poised for iTunes Phone Launch BlogML will let you move your blog from service service Call Forwarding with Skype Disney says it does believe in fairies Lake George Pocket-sized DIY customizable paper organizer Podcast Anxiety: a cure has been found Privacy concerns over Yahoo IM […]
Disaster planning, consequences and inevitabilities from Katrina
Two thoughtful articles in as many days from the Financial Times examine broad consequences of the Hurricane Katrina disaster from the business, economic, political and social standpoints. In the first, a feature on disaster planning, the FT says the consequences of Katrina for businesses worldwide are likely to be significant. Insurance claims are expected to […]
New blogging white paper from Edelman and Intelliseek
Edeman and Intelliseek have just published their latest white paper on word-of-mouth marketing called "Blogging from the Inside Out: The Rise and Effective Management of Employee Bloggers." The 22-page PDF document is a rich source of information that includes: Original data on the role employees play in shaping corporate reputation and on the frequency with […]
The giant street market
An email from James Cherkoff alerted me to yesterday’s edition of Shop Talk, a weekly BBC Radio 4 business programme, in which he was one of the studio guests talking about blogs and blogging. Together with Adriana Cronin-Lukas of Big Blog Company, Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems, Azeem Azhar, a writer and analyst, and Heather […]
‘Project Green’ begets Microsoft Dynamics
“Project Green” was a code phrase I heard a lot of during my career with Scala Business Solutions, a mid-market ERP vendor and Microsoft Gold certified partner acquired by Epicor last year, and where I spent five years as VP of corporate communication. So it was with some interest that I read the news yesterday […]
Podcast empire-building
Silicon Beat: Podcast Alley, the grassroots podcast directory that played a big role in spurring the popularity of podcasting, has been acquired by PodShow. The deal happened last month, we’re told, and founder Chris McIntyre is already making the move from Nashville to San Francisco. A very interesting development in an embryonic but fast-expanding industry […]
Strong rumours persist about Skype acquisition
From the Financial Times this morning: Skype, the European internet telephony provider, on Thursday played down talk of an imminent takeover, declining to comment on a report that Ebay had joined the list of potential suitors with an offer valued at up to $5bn. Ebay on Thursday declined to comment on a report in the […]
Weekend conversation makers
It’s been a very interesting week for business and tech news.The iPod nano, rumors about Skype, and of course Hurricane Katrina have been among the topics that I’ve seen blogged a lot, and which I’ve commented on as well. Other things going on, too, some related, that caught my eye this afternoon from recent RSS […]
Ebay acquisition of Skype looks imminent
Still just a rumour? Last Thursday, the Financial Times reported on a strong rumour that Ebay was in talks to acquire Skype. This morning, the FT has this story prominently displayed on its home page: Ebay was in the final stages late on Sunday night of sealing an agreement to buy Skype, the fast-growing provider […]
Ebay says it is acquiring Skype
It’s now official – Ebay is acquiring Skype. A press release on the Ebay investor relations website makes it clear: London, September 12, 2005 – eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY; www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential […]
Influential Dutch marketing blog in partnering deal
Ilse Media, a Dutch publisher and blog portal, has taken a 25 percent stake in Marketingfacts.nl, one of the most influential marketing and business blogs in The Netherlands. Ilse Media’s strong interest is in “the knowledge power of a community of interactive marketeers,” Marketingfacts pioneer Marco Derksen told me (I’ve known Marco for much of […]
Communicating the power of 3
Listening to eBay’s investor conference call last night which took place to discuss eBay’s acquisition of Skype, and following along with the slide presentation (PDF), it’s now clearer to me what the expected synergies are from this deal from eBay‘s and Skype‘s perspectives. It’s something they’re calling the Power of 3: (Click to see a […]