Blog » Archive for September, 2007

Web 3.0 & Gannett (Part 1)

Mon, Sep 24, 2007

Introduction Gannett (GCI) publishes 85 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a circulation of 7.3 million is the US’s largest-selling newspaper. USA WEEKEND is a weekly newspaper with a [...]

Welcome to Bait And Switch! (Yes, I’m Talking to You)

Sun, Sep 23, 2007

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author In many respects nothing changes, like ever. For instance, I’ve been watching service businesses pull some serious crap for years. No matter what happens the practice of Bait & Switch (BAS) still persists.After downturns, price of coffee skyrocketing, the freaking mortgage collapse, terrorism, wars, famine, pestilence (okay not that) and [...]

Offshoring Secrets: Is India Center Becoming Costly?

Sun, Sep 23, 2007

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Recently this question has flooded the web and the print media. Some companies are thinking about pulling back from India. So what is the real answer? Globally, weakening of the dollar has impacted almost every country whether it is Israel, China, Malaysia or Poland, and therefore [...]

Online Video Beneficiaries: Media

Sat, Sep 22, 2007

Offshoring Secrets: How Can India Center Gain More Respect?

Sat, Sep 22, 2007

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Almost everyone in an offshore center in India are aware of the tag of “cheap labor” and the “cost advantage”. These are the two sides of the same coin. Where the first one hurts feelings and sentiments, the second one offers a feeling of job security. [...]

Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 5)

Fri, Sep 21, 2007

Conclusion IAC has leadership positions in the Personals, and Local / Ticketing verticals. Through Expedia, it also has a great position in Travel. However, there are concerns with HSN Network, Lending Tree and Real Estate segments, though they are strong brands with competitive positioning. IAC holds more than 60 online properties and someone could easily [...]

Why BI Appliances?

Fri, Sep 21, 2007

By David Hatch, Guest Author As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, the term “appliance” is now being applied to BI. This term is used to define a technology offering that combines some form of software with some form of either hardware or other platform software (see Wikipedia URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance for a really detailed [...]

QualComm: The Margins

Fri, Sep 21, 2007

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the first part of this series, “QualComm: Legal Battles galore”, we looked at the legal events involving QualComm this year. We further looked at the significance of these events in “QualComm:The aftermath”. In this piece, I shall delve a little deeper into the impact of the legal battles and [...]