Is Jennifer Lopez The Bellwether?

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author As we move from mediocrity (the 2000s) into a decade of fabulous, forward-thinking, show-us positivism, we’ll always remember the star from these years who turned our cynicism into a beloved trait, none other than J. Lo “Don’t Call Me That” Lopez. People who work in media-could be you-constantly shake their

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I find its site impossible to navigate, but Etsy, a crafts marketplace, has raised $27 Million this week. Here’s the story from VentureBeat. I like the idea of a crafts marketplace, in the same vein that I like all Renaissance ideas. But they need to hire a UI designer asap. Fake Steve Jobs gives a

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Frank H. Levinson

Frank H. Levinson, Ph.D., is the founder and managing director of Small World Group, PTE LTD. From 1988 through 2005, he was founder, CTO and chairman of Finisar Corporation, a technology leader in fiber optic subsystems and network performance test systems, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Frank lead a dynamic team of talented technology and business

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 6)

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? Users? Advertisers? Any other metrics you track? CL: We ran the company at break-even for the first three years. We didn’t have a choice. All the profits went right back into the company (and a few to American Express and Mastercard). Now that we have

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Germany and Renewables

Here’s another good piece from Business Week on Germany’s Renewable Energy efforts: The Wind at Germany’s Back : Cutting-edge tech and government incentives have made it a world-beater in renewable energy. Some excerpts:

Patni and the H1-B Wage Fraud

Here’s a scary piece from Business Week: Are H-1B Workers Getting Bilked? addressing the issue: Overseas outsourcing companies are accused of underpaying foreigners on work visas—and hurting U.S. wages. Is there anyone among our readers who have direct experience with this? I thought this kind of under-wage body-shopping had ceased in the early nineties …

Lance Glasser

Lance Glasser is presently an industry consultant and a part-time senior advisor to KLA-Tencor. Previous positions at KLA-Tencor include Chief Technical Officer, Group Vice President of the Wafer Inspection Group, and Vice President and General Manager of RAPID, the Reticle and Photomask Inspection Division. Before joining KLA in 1996, Lance was Director of the Electronics

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 5)

SM: What are your top target segments? CL: We’ve been called the “long tail of travel websites” but that’s not completely accurate. RandMcNally.com, LonelyPlanet.com, WAYN.com and AreaGuides.net are hardly long tail publishers. These are premium properties with deeply integrated advertising packages that command high CPMs. Generally speaking, we make most of our revenue comes from

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