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Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt

Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. SchmidtSchwarzenegger's Raw DealIMO, News is one of the main pillar in democracy, play main role in politics, especially during election time, its not an Entertainment like youtube. Streaming all the news into a single channel is danger for constitution.People are comparing this...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Schwarzenegger, Google News, Google Inc., Zell, Googley

Discussion threads 2007-04-09

Billionaire Zell to Google: Show me the money

Billionaire Zell to Google: Show me the moneyZell has a pointYou have to be the only other person I've read so far who thinks Zell has a worthwhile point. I agree, and I explain my reasoning on my blog.Sorry Donna, You're WrongGoogle is not dependent on newspapers, it is the...

Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Old Money, Google Inc., Zell

Discussion threads 2007-04-07

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Hey, Andy: Assault on the Battery Will Push Newspapers Over The Edge

Funny thing, how Sam Zell didn’t come hat in hand to Washington, D.C., this week, when his Tribune Co. hit the wall. He just filed for bankruptcy on his newspaper company and said: This is a pre-emptive action, to preserve assets. Too bad automakers can’t be as decisive. ...

Tags: Battery, Laptop Computer, Computer, Journal, Engineering, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Bankruptcy for Tribune won't stop the inevitable

(update: Tribune Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Read Tribune's official release.) As much as we hate to face it, there comes a time when the older family members of start to pass on - maybe your parents, your grandparents, the older aunts and...

Tags: Tribune Co., McClatchy Co., Bankruptcy, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Jewelry Sales Consultant Saves Three Hours Weekly With New Operating System

Leonard Zell travels the world coaching jewelers in sales techniques. He wanted to improve his efficiency at daily tasks, such as finding customer files and creating invoices. Zell upgraded from the Windows XP operating system when he bought a new portable computer with Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. Now...

Tags: Operating System, Invoice, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leonard Zell, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Software, Sales

Case studies 2008-12-04

Newspapers want Google News' quarter

Newspapers want Google News' quarterNewspapers want Google News' quarterGoogle short changes the public again. When are people going to wake up and realize Google doesn't run the world. I'm sure these newspapers are going to want back pay as well as current royalties severely affecting Google's bottom line....

Tags: Google News, Google Only, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Google News Flash: Google.com SERPs get News, and images!

Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt I said exactly one month ago.Google News is indeed NOT newspaper driven, I reiterate: Google News is Google driven, Google.com that is.Poor Sam Zell I noted last month: The blogosphere has been quick to come to Google’s defense by suggesting that...

Tags: Media, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Google cash-free caching gets boost with 'Webmaster Tools'

“Requesting removal from our index,” begins Google’s Vanessa Fox, to the kudos of colleague Matt Cutts. Should the Web’s content owners really rejoice though because Google’s “Webmaster Central” has posted page after page of specs detailing complex technology options only available to those with a Google “Webmasters Tools”...

Tags: Legal, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture nuts is going to establish a social network, via GigaOm. Initial Om Malik reaction: “If this means their...

Tags: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Social Web, MySpace, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Google Web fortune can be had!

Economics lesson on how the “fundamental law of supply and demand” makes Google the “ultimate money making machine,“ courtesy of Read/WriteWeb.The lengthy presentation of the “fundamental law,” as translated by Alex Iskold, does not quite mesh with economic theory I was taught, at the New York University Stern Graduate School...

Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Business Models, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Google's big, bad risk

The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...

Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Google aims to usurp campus email systems

What is missing from college campuses today? Google Apps Education Edition, of course! Not for long though, if the latest Google ambitions are fully realized.Google is promoting Google Apps on campus directly to students themselves, not university administrators or IT managers, with the goal of building student demand for Google...

Tags: Google Ads, Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Gmail

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt

Poor Google?The outpouring of support for the $150 billion market cap company that is oft cited as the most influential corporation in a generation whenever anyone dares to discuss the fairness, or not, of the business model that fuels its over-sized market returns is as surreal as the very public...

Tags: Content, Advertising, YouTube, Video, Search, Search Advertising, Newspapers, Media, Google, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Google Desktop for Mac, Google Rules: News and views

NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google experiences and voices from all around the World Wide Web!Google, the Desktop and Privacy, Benlog, April 6Google just released Google Desktop for Mac, and that got me thinking again about the Google and Privacy issue...Microsoft might have an interesting privacy advantage,...

Tags: Google Software Applications, Google, Culture

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Billionaire Zell to Google: Show me the money

"If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?" Samuel Zell observed during a Stanford Law School appearance this week, the Washington Post reports.The seasoned real estate investor, and newly minted investor in the news business, is cited as...

Tags: Newspapers, Media, Marketing, Google, Business Models, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-07

Can rich Americans save newspapers?

Can rich Americans save newspapers?HYPOCRITEObviously you don't read or listen to the newspapers you are talking about. I'm sure none of them have ever exaggerated the truth or gone so far as to publish distasteful columns or ads.Please GET a life and instead of sitting in front of your...

Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Financial accounting, classifieds, Craigslist

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

Can rich Americans save newspapers?

Okay. So Craigslist is shafting newspapers with its free sex ads. But is there anything we can actually do to save these wonderfully civilizing and civilized institutions? Free market digital fundamentalists will, of course, argue that newspapers are inevitable roadkill on route to their self-publishing utopia. But, for the rest...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Microsoft details EU concessions

Microsoft details EU concessionsHAHA.. Microsoft is officially the EU's Beeeee...yach...Poor Microsoft has to comply.. boo hoo..Gave away too muchI cannot stand the way other vendors thing they are just entitled to Microsoft's crown jewels. My rep has shown me over and over again that Microsoft engineers spend thousands of man...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, TCP/IP, Neelie Kroes, Microsoft Corp., Big Stuff, operating system

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

Bank Improves Customer Service Using Sun Ray Technology

Sparkasse Haslach-Zell is a savings bank headquartered in Zell, Germany. The bank has 11 branch offices, employs 230 people and manages EUR 900 million. The bank wanted to maximize effectiveness of bank consultants and improve customer service, minimize capital expenditures and operating costs and integrate and simplify IT administration for...

Tags: Bank, Customer Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sparkasse Haslach-Zell, Financial Services

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