This is the story, via Chris Matyszczyk, of how Ikea used Facebook to promote a new store in Malmö, Sweden:
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Technology & Media
Management wisdom from Larry Ellison
We were at a cocktail party, and [former Apple CEO] Gil Amelio was explaining Apple’s predicament to us, and he said: “Apple is a boat. There’s a hole in the boat, and it’s taking on water. But there’s also a treasure on board. And the problem is, everyone on board is rowing in different directions, so the boat is just standing
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Better technology at home than at work
In today’s WSJ, Nick Wingfield addresses one of the stranger information-technology developments of the past decade. The off-the-shelf computing technology available to anybody with a few bucks to spend (and in some cases without any bucks, as some of the best stuff is free) is significantly better than what large corporations provide …
Why are times so tough for business magazines?
As a longtime inhabitant of businessmagazineland, I stumbled over a few of the assertions in David Carr’s column on the death of the business magazine in today’s NYT. For example:
Business magazines used to relish explaining all the complex new financial instruments that Wall Street was using to pile up profits. But now it has become
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New column: What’s a banker worth?
My new column is online and in issue of TIME with the scary-looking banker on the cover. It’s part of a “Why Main Street Hates Wall Street” package that includes Allan Sloan’s take on “What’s Still Wrong With Wall Street” and Steve Gandel’s “Meet Ken Feinberg.” My contribution is mainly a summing up of the recent research of NYU finance …
Weekend video: Belgians eating breakfast
Flemish folk trio Laïs, plus cellist Simon Lenski. Don’t be dissuaded by the chatting at the beginning; they do start making music after a little while. Also, I want a table like that.
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Infosys tells us where the growth is
The head honchos of Bangalore-based IT consulting/outsourcing/software-development company Infosys were in New York today for an analyst meeting (security analysts, not psychoanalysts, I think), and afterwards they chatted with some representatives of the embattled fourth estate. Infosys recently reported its first quarterly revenue gain …
Are you a fan?
James Dyson, the man who brought us the vacuum cleaner of the future, has a new device: the bladeless fan. It’s already getting rave reviews, despite its $300+ price tag. No one sent me one (I guess because all the freebies now go to people who only blog), so I can’t tell you how the thing blows, but I can at least offer up some videos. …
Truly the last chance
This just arrived in the mailbox:
Weekend video: Le temps des cerises
I can’t believe I implied that I was done with the Belgian videos. Here we have Geike Arnaert and former professional whistler and amusement park owner Bobbejaan Schoepen, singing in their second language:
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Wall Streeters like conspiracy theories. Always have
Felix Salmon, after previously describing the readers of the blog sensation Zero Hedge as loser day traders and getting called out for it by my old friend The Equity Private (now blogging at Zero Hedge as Marla Singer), reconsiders:
Far from reflecting the conspiracy-minded and often-disjointed ramblings of harmful-only-to-themselves
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