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I think constantly about these two business fundamentals. When all facets of a business – operational, financial, product development or innovation and marketing are distilled to the most valuable assets, in the end I believe the essence is found in Innovation and Marketing. So it is that I find myself assessing the merits of all [...]
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I was buried in a project yesterday and didn’t come up for air until late at night, when I realized it was April 12th – the day MSFT was set to reveal their new mobile devices. From the few things I’ve seen so far, it looks like the reviews were written before the products were [...]
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Over the weekend I was thinking about what the core requirements are to force a change in a consumer’s behavior. For instance, how could Microsoft get someone to not just try Bing, but become a regular user, when Google is more than good enough for most users and searches. Or, could Fox Business materially disrupt [...]
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iLike’s sale to MySpace, announced earlier this week merits comments on a couple of points.
First, it’s fire sale time. At roughly $20 million, this represents a new low for music-based valuations. In halcyon days, we had seen the prices climb. From Real’s $36 million acquisition of Listen.com in 2003, to Yahoo’s 2004 $160 million acquisition [...]
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From leaks last evening, it is sounding like the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal is done, as I’d suggested in an earlier post. Combined, the Yahoo and Microsoft search business will command 30% market share of search – a credible number 2. There is still, what I would term, a lack of clarity around core product focus [...]
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Was this Microsoft’s bing strategy all along:
Hire Yahoo Search braintrust
Rebrand Live Search
Focus on algorithms, presentation tweaks and tools.
Throw the Kitchen Sink at it. Somewhere between 50 and 100 million into a scorched earth launch and marketing strategy to see if it moves the market share the needle. Try and buy users through cashback incentives.
If yes – [...]
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It’s been intriguing following the long expected bankruptcy of GM today. While the coverage has been substantial… there is no doubt the long decline and demise breakup of a 100 year old icon of industrial power, with the continued destruction of Americans’ livelihood from fallout of GM and it’s vast supply system, makes June 1, [...]
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