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I’m sure you can find some reasons to malign them but there are many reasons to love them as well. Apple’s COO, Tim Cooke, makes me feel good about a post-Jobs Apple. Via Daring Fireball.
A brewpub in planning
A guy brews beer in his home, makes it available to anyone who cares to partake, for absolutely no charge and I don’t know about it?
Murder Your Darlings
Yet another viewpoint on Apple’s surprise announcement that 2009 will be their last Macworld Expo: John Siracusa, of the esteemed Ars Technica, calls the move, by Apple, “fearless”, that a penchant for this sort of quick and decisive action is in Apple’s DNA and is part of the reason they are the successful company they are today. [...]
eCommerce as an Opportunity for Humor
Amazon has a feature, called aStore, open to members of their associates program, that allows anyone to create a personalized online store that features self-selected products that are for sale at Amazon.com. I know of two bloggers I follow — Daring Fireball and Merlin Mann — that have set up their own but only one [...]
Flippin' Successful
A tiny company, out of San Francisco, with less than 100 employees, has captured the #1 spot in U.S. camcorder sales.
A Commodity of Errors
McDonalds is now Starbucks’ main competitor and Starbucks has nobody to blame but themselves. By opening up so many stores and introducing so many “frou-frou” drinks that they commodified the coffee buying experience, Starbucks gutted the value proposition of buying an espresso drink at their stores and, in so doing, created a monster in their own competitive space [...]
Towards a Nation of Entrepreneurs
In “The Next American Frontier”, Michael S. Malone describes a future in which more and more Americans eschew the thirty-years-and-a-gold-watch career, opting, instead, to work in the continuously changing work environment of the entrepreneur.
Yahoo stock plunges?
In other words, the Microsoft offer increased the value of Yahoo! Inc. by more than $7 billion and decreased the value of Microsoft Corporation by almost $33 billion.
–– Jason Kottke in “Yahoo stock plunges”
The Answer
The answer to my question over the weekend is … Yahoo! ↓$4.74 to $23.93, Microsoft ↑$0.55 to $29.79.
As John Gruber says …
that’s not bad, given that their stock was at $19 prior to the Microsoft takeover bid.
That $4/share difference? I think it’s hope. Hope, that the shareholder’s and public’s rooting for the underdog is going to bare [...]
Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo!
Color me shocked! Microsoft has withdrawn it’s bid for Yahoo!.
No one will know until Monday what affect this decision will have on both Microsoft’s and Yahoo!’s stock price. I am, by no means, facile in the ways of the business world but to me, this shows a surfeit of tenacity and strength on Yahoo!’s part and [...]
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