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- Amazon experiments with groceries
- Amazon experiments with groceriesWebvan's problemwas that they tried to do grocery delivery everywhere. The model only makes sense in high-density urban areas.Message has been deleted.Not gonna work!Perishable vs. non-perishables. Consisten vs. non-consistent. Brain food vs. food. The list goes on and on. For example:I'd like some nice red tomatoes, not...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, grocery, Amazon.com Inc., Webvan
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
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- Amazon's trial online grocery service
- According to a recent post on betanews, Amazon is trialing a new online grocery service in select markets. Amazon is hoping to avoid the traps that befell dot com companies such as WebVan and HomeGrocer.com, whose costs ran past any revenue they managed to generate, by leveraging their existing warehouses and...
- Tags: Online Grocer, Grocer, Amazon.com Inc., Grocery, Amazon\, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Amazon experiments with groceries
- Amazon appears to experimenting with grocery deliveries in Seattle. The invite only service, which was highlighted by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, is dubbed Amazon Fresh and promises a fresh selection, value and convenience of grocery shopping online.Arrington makes the obvious comparison to Webvan and its flameout, but misses one key...
- Tags: General, E-commerce, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Vonage replaces CEO, still rudderless
- Vonage replaces CEO, still rudderlessVonage vs. VerizonI was seriously considering Vonage but have recently changed my mind. I want to order DSL and VoIP have you or a friend ever ordered through www.dsldance.com or other sites like it? Their deals look better than the providers.I dont like what i...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Is Google worth its weight in gold?
- Is Google worth its weight in gold?Is Google worth its weight in gold?That is a reassured no! Google has been doing flop over flop since it went public. They used to have a good service, then they lost of vision and focus of what they should be doing....
- Tags: Investment, Google Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Can SOA save Siebel?
- Siebel Systems has had a rough year. One lousy earnings announcement after another. One CEO makes the mistake of admitting the company has failed to execute and promptly gets executed. So the board installs one of its own -- a guy who presided over one of the biggest dotcom disasters...
- Tags: Siebel Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-08-03
- Experts sound off on Siebel's CEO switch
- Siebel's announcement that it replaced CEO Mike Lawrie with George Shaheen has been met with considerable criticism from customers, investors, and experts. While Gartner says bringing on Shaheen is a good move, AMR Research shows a strong view to the contrary, saying that the abrupt firing will have a negative...
- Tags: Mike Lawrie, George Shaheen, Siebel Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-04-15
- Wall Street's dot-com scapegoat
- Wall Street's dot-com scapegoatWe need an economic revolutionIs Maximizing Returns to Shareholders a Legitimate Mandate?By Marjorie Kellyhttp://www.business-ethics.com/TDROC-PBACK.htmWhere does wealth come from? More precisely, where does the wealth of major public corporations come from? Who creates it?To judge by the current arrangement in corporate America, one might suppose capital creates wealth...
- Tags: Investment, Financial services, Operational accounting, dot-com, Equity Capital, Ford Motor Co., public corporation, common stock
- Discussion threads 2004-05-04
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