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- General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding
- General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingHave You Been To A Dealer Lately?Look at the Saturn Aura, Chevy Malibu, Pontiac G6 and Saab 9-3. They are all on the same platform Epsilon. Do they all look alike?RE: General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingI guess you don't realize that the...
- Tags: Branding, American Auto Industry, cost difference, General Motors Corp., car, Cadillac
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- American auto industry low on fuel and popular support
- American auto industry low on fuel and popular supportChapter 11 is your friend"Going under" doesn't imply the companies cease to exist; rather, they are legally allowed to restructure themselves in order to come back as much leaner and competitive entities. The Detroit automakers are saddled with an enormous union...
- Tags: American Auto Industry, Chapter 11, popular support
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
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- U.S. willing to let go of Icann
- Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Obama, salary, ICANN, job
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit
- Not to defend detroit but......but you can't possibly believe that the companies you list are real contenders in the US market. Tesla? Come on. Have you looked at the prices they list on their web site? Their cheapest car starts at $50 grand. Anyone looking for...
- Tags: OK IT, global warming, Tesla
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit
- Despite the billions in loans and bailouts and the much abllyhooed re-org of Chrysler and GM, some prominent Silicon Valley investment leaders find Detroit's auto industry hopeless and heedless of the needed innovation. They see a new American auto industry far away in miles and mentality from Detroit once-bug-three....
- Tags: Detroit, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Current EPA regime to revisit previous smog rulings
- The Obama version of the EPA is examining smog-related rulings from the Bush version of the EPA. The Bush EPA held off on smog rlings for most of eight years, then issued them last spring. They set less stringent regs than the science staff at EPA recommended. The...
- Tags: Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- White House not equipped to hold keys to the Internet
- Am I the only one who is alarmed?Obama has already seized control of the auto industry, the banks, insurance companies, and is well on its way to nationalizing the health care system. Now, they want control of the internet? Does anyone besides me see a pattern here? ...
- Tags: Internet, White House, Bush, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'
- Let's spend more money, says Congress. They may not see their way to helping Americans get universal health care, but auto care? Big support in Congress for auto care. The House just approved another $2 billion for the "cash for clunkers" program, that started out with half that,...
- Tags: Car, Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...
- Tags: Vertical industries, American Textbook Accessibility Act, government
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?
- What's a poor country with rich resources to do? There's the Nigeria model: tribal hatred and long-running civil war. There's the Saudi model: bribe your own people, hire aliens to do the dirty work and execute any dissenters. There's the West Virginia model: give the mining companies...
- Tags: Lithium, Bolivia, Battery, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...
- Tags: COMPANIES, green technology, government
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?
- Is it too late for the green tech boom in the U.S.? Is the nation now second-rate technologically? Did the eight years of aerobics during the Bush Administration leave the U.S. one lap behind nations actually in the running? There are certainly lots of folks counting on a...
- Tags: U.S., Green Technology, Pew, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Life or death struggle in the Senate
- This week the 100 members of the U.S. Senate, their staffs and legions of lobbyists swing into action on the Waxman-Markey bill. Not since the stimulus bill promised a cash payment to millions of Americans has there been a proposed law with such far-reaching ramifications. Energy supply. ...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...
- Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff
- Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...
- Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- EU to levy huge fine on Intel, hearing set for Microsoft
- EU to levy huge fine on Intel, hearing set for MicrosoftLet 'em have it.Because it won't change their behavior in any way. Instead of issuing a fine to the company, the EU should fine the shareholders. You want to see some quick action in a company's attitude change?...
- Tags: Web browsers, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., huge fine
- Discussion threads 2009-05-10
- General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding
- Is the future of General Motors its most recognized brand? My gut feeling is yes. Associated Press is reporting that over 1000 auto dealers are going to be forced to close as a result of GM's restructuring, which will include the elimination of...
- Tags: Car, Brand, Dealership, Chevrolet, General Motors Corp., Cadillac, Chevy, Branding, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Microsoft and the PCjr
- Microsoft and the PCjrNow for a little nostalgia...Enjoy, Dana.... http://www.brutman.com/PCjr/The super thin, 12 inch, light weight netbook for $250 will be a HUGE problem for MS. It will have a 12 hour battery life, and be more powerful and have more memory than todays full sized laptops. The OS and...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Corp., Starter Edition, netbook, PCjr
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Britain tries to electricify its auto industry
- In moves that mirror new American laws, the British government is going to be providing hefty rewards to British car-buyers...if they buy electric vehicles. The pay-outs could be as much as five thousand pounds. Currently that's well over $7,000 U.S. About 13% of Britain's total...
- Tags: Britain, Engineering, Enterprise Software, Government, Harry Fuller, Software, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
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