Five Percent (2005)
There is much ebullience about booming online sales. In an interview on CNBC a couple of days ago, the CEO of Circuit City attributed the positive company results "in large part due to on-line sales". Specifically, he said the ability to shop online and then pick up the item in the nearest store twenty minutes […]
The Internet Division
In the "old days" — ten years ago — we used to say that a month was three or four Internet months or that a year was three or four Internet years. It was a way of expressing how fast things were moving. Now that it has been ten years since the Internet Division was […]
Vienna Webcast
The Internet Service Providers of Austria webcast my speech at their Internet Summit in Vienna is now also available as a podcast. The file size is 179 megabytes so if you don’t want it on your iPod you can stream it directly from the web by going here.
Bubble-2 ?
The SG Cowen & Co. Internet Conference at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York last week was one of those conferences I attend, not as a speaker, but to sit, listen and learn. The conference was mainly for investors and was attended by more than 500 financial analysts, fund managers, pension fund managers, […]
Merger Benefits
One company acquiring another company can be a very good thing for customers, shareholders, and management. In the past ten years IBM has made nearly 50 acquisitions that have allowed it to broaden and deepen its Websphere middleware for the Internet. There have been numerous financial services companies that have used mergers as a way […]