Quote from The Baron Son "Tis not one’s failings alone that produce
self-mastery, but studying the causes of such failure, coupled with
the persistent application of new methods."
Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies In Small Plane Accident Micron Technology this afternoon announced that CEO Steve Appleton died this morning in a small plane accident in Boise. He was 51. The memory chip company said it will provide additional information later today. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time," the [...]
Mexico's Secretary of Tourism Rises to the Challenge What do you do when you’re the Secretary of Tourism for Mexico, faced with what many consider to be one of the most negative perceptions in the travel industry today? Image via Wikipedia I recently sat down with tourism secretary Gloria Guevara to ask her just that. Appointed in 2010, Guevara inherited [...]
AT&T CMO: This Is How We Sold Millions More iPhones Than Verizon In 2011 One year ago, there was a lot of chatter about Verizon Wireless getting the iPhone and the effect it would have on rival carrier AT&T. Now that 2011 sales have been tabulated and AT&T turns out to have activated far more iPhones than Verizon did – 17.5 million units vs. [...]
Why Madonna Isn't Getting Paid For Her Super Bowl Halftime Gig When Madonna performs her Super Bowl XVLI halftime set, she won’t be earning a penny. Why? Same reason the Black Eyed Peas didn’t get paid for theirs last year—halftime show acts perform for free.
The Real Facebook IPO Winners? Sean Parker And Bono The real winners in Facebook's upcoming public offering will be its current owners. Brian Barrett has a helpful pie chart illustrating just who these lucky few happen to be: Honestly, I had no idea that Bono had such a large investment in Facebook. We've all heard of Peter Thiel and Sean [...]
Is Apple The Next Polaroid? Edwin Land, Polaroid's demanding, irascible, headman once told me in an aside that he couldn’t keep his researchers out of the dark rooms as they struggled to perfect instant color film. He predicted every living person on the planet earth before long would have his picture snapped by a Polaroid camera using instant color film. Land wasn't [...]
Economy Becomes Stock Investor's Friend I?ve been writing some quite optimistic and positive columns since October, quite a contrast to the negativism I was exuding last April in explaining why I expected a significant market correction during the summer months.
Amazon Stock Still Good For $205 With Kindle Firing Up While Amazon.com?s Q4 and full-year 2011 earnings results proved disappointing to investors leading to a 11% drop after the announcement, we continue to believe that Kindle Fire volumes would push both e-commerce and e-content sales higher.
