List of posts tagged "business"
- iTunes Offers TV Shows to Canadians
Apple has finally managed to negotiate the rights to sell some television series to Canadians via iTunes Store. The only problem is that there are more episodes in one season of some of these shows than there are actual shows up for sale to Canadians today. The CBC, CTV, Comedy Central, and NHL are the only networks offering shows for download. By my count, there is a grand total of 12 shows available to Canadians. In fact, you can probably see all of them in this screenshot of the shows in Coverflow view. Now that is an anemic selection.
... - Microsoft Bids On Yahoo
The most perplexing issue about Microsoft's takeover bid for Yahoo is what will happen to all of Yahoo's architecture after the fact? This just does not sound like it will go down well because I can't think of two companies with such diametrically-opposing views on just about every single part of their architecture. I suspect that Microsoft will concede defeat on the issue of running Windows and will allow Yahoo to continue using FreeBSD and the wealth of open source development tools currently in use. They already let Facebook do the same. Yet if this scenario plays out, it'll be a very unsavoury proposition for Microsoft to have to live with from a marketing standpoint - a huge chunk of their own company using, even thriving under a completely non-Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft could try to spin this by saying that Yahoo's current efforts have failed and it's time to transition over to Microsoft software. But this is highly unlikely given the extreme amount of infrastructure in place. This ain't no Hotmail. If there is a transition, it will be lengthy and unwieldy. It will mean time lost re-inventing the wheel rather than competing with Google which defeats the purpose of this whole acquisition in the first place. I know that this deal looks quite sane from a high level business sense, but I can't help but think this thing is a lot of short term jockeying by Ballmer to be seen as doing something at the expense of longer term success.
... - The Website Of A Company Whose Stock Price Is $139,000 Per Share
Yes, you read that correctly. Berkshire Hathaway's current share price is $139,000. And this is Berkshire Hathaway's website. If you view source on some of the pages, then you will see that, yes, it appears to have been created with Frontpage 3.0! Let's hope that this is one practice people don't look up to Warren Buffett for, or people like me will soon be out of work.
... - Always Do The Opposite Of What This Guy Says
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