May 2, 2007
Good video from recent Milken Conference of Steve Forbes and Boone Pickens debating peak oil....
The real news tonight in the Dow Jones board announcement it will "take no action" on the News Corp offer is that only 52% of the shares are against. Why? Because the Bancroft family control over 62% of the voting...
Bloomberg is carrying a story speculating -- based on brand marquee value, not finances -- that the Dow Jones purchase price could hit $100 in an auction....
Jon Friedman on Fox/WSJ is typically interesting:I think company chief Rupert Murdoch is a marketing genius.With the news Tuesday of a dramatic, unsolicited bid to acquire Dow Jones & Co. for $60 a share, Murdoch has created a tremendous amount...
There is a fascinating result in a newly published study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The gist: Early exposure to Helicobacter pylori may reduce risks of asthma and allergy. While h. pylori is now known as the stomach bacterium...
I hate shopping, but I love shopping data. I was reminded of that today in scanning a recent ResourceShelf post about services that combine shopping and price data to give insights into market trends. Here are some of the services...
My friend Barry "Bling-less" Ritholtz has a cry from the heart appended to a recent post and directed to financial journalists, et al.:NOTE TO MIDDLE-AGED WHITE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BANKERS, INDEXORS, PR FLACKS AND MEDIA STILL USING THE WORD "BLING": Stop....
Being a millionaire is becoming so ... common. The damn people are seemingly everywhere, as a new report from TNS points out. The number of U.S. millionaire (excluding primary residence) households is up 5% to 9.3m, which means, given 92m...
Conference registration is now open for the Defrag conference. Eric Norlin has put a ton of work into this (and, full disclosure, I'm an advisor), so check it out....
A great example of using multiple information sources to ferret out Apple's internal projections for iPod/iPhone sales:Digitimes via EE Times Asia reports that Apple is negotiating to buy 500 million Samsung NAND flash chips. These are 4 GBit chips, so...
Here is a criticism I haven't heard leveled recently at online ad spending: It's too inefficient. The comment comes from DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt in today's WSJ:Advertisers are interested in two things. One is increasing the efficiency of their media...
A nifty factoid on the ad market, courtesy of WPP Group CEO Martin Sorrell in a recent speech:Google has revenues of $11 billion, and a market capitalization of $150 billionThe top four advertising companies have combined revenues of $33-billion, and...
