Newspapers Report Weak Earnings

WSJ reports: :: Three of the country’s biggest newspaper publishers reported sharply weaker first-quarter results Thursday, reflecting across-the-board declines in print advertising, particularly in classified ads related to the cooling housing market. Gannett Co. and New York Times Co. each posted declining earnings for the period. Tribune Co., which recently agreed to be taken private,

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Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 9)

After discussing German and Japanese markets, Tom visits the North American markets with a particular emphasis on California. Of particular interest is the amount of growth which is expected, spurred in part by governmental policy and incentive programs. We use that discussion as a catalyst to have some quick discussions on the current and projected

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IBM’s India Strategy

Last week’s Economist had an article called Hungry Tiger, Dancing Elephant. It traces IBM’s globalization efforts, and especially analyzes their India strategy. :: (IBM CEO) Mr Palmisano announced that IBM would invest a further $6 billion in India over the coming three years, up from $2 billion in the previous three. That sum does not

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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 9)

Social activism has emerged into wide scale leadership, as Sass has led a drive in Silicon Valley for corporations to develop energy policies of carbon neutrality. After being spurned by members of Congress, he has kick started initiatives which are leading to substantive change. SM: When you say we, do you mean you have made

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Broadband in India: Local Content

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author As I discussed in the previous post, the drivers for penetration of broadband in India will be- * Decreasing cost per line * Decreasing operating expense * Decreasing cost of PC (or similar device) * Social attitudes and habits embracing broadband facilities * More Indian content In this post, I

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eBay’s Forays Into Media

eBay announced earnings. Skype numbers aren’t great, certainly not enough to justify the price they paid for it. Today, however, it looks like they’re acquiring Stumbleupon. Why? Stumbleupon is a very popular “discovery” engine, which helps users find what they would like via collective intelligence. There is always an element of surprise, and I have

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WSJ, Business Week: Take Note

Adify defies Google Adsense, submitting a model for the rest of the “old” media industry to adopt and leverage, liberating them from the corner they have been pushed in by the onslaught of user generated media. Washington Post has already adopted the service. Wall Street Journal and Business Week ought to follow suit, and given

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Adify Challenges AdSense

Adify, the small ad network company that is powering blog networks for larger “old” media companies such as Washington Post just raised $19 Million in funding from USVP, NBC and Time Warner. In my Giving Up on AdSense piece, I referred to the WPNI program, which is powered by Adify. Amit Agarwal reports: ComputerWorld, the

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