Micron Beats Estimates; Memory Market Recovering?

On September 29, Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE: MU), the leading memory chipmaker, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 results. Although the company booked its fourteenth straight quarterly loss, there was one bright spot in that losses were less than last year and beat estimates. Micron’s shares have more than quadrupled since the beginning of the year. Are these

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Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 7)

SM: Is there anything else that you want to add to this conversation? An industry which has become a large one, and which I feel would do well with stories, is the electronic gaming and virtual world industry. Do you have any thoughts on it? RM: In the past I have gone up to Microsoft

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Next Positioning Roundtable On Wednesday, October 7

Those looking for guidance while developing their business ideas find these roundtables to be immensely helpful.  Sramana Mitra will encourage entrepreneurs to do their due diligence and will share her valuable advice. This event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. We hope that you will join us!  You can find more details and register here.

Deal Radar 2009: PSS Systems

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on the intersection of the law, compliance, and technology. In 2003, Deidre Paknad predicted that companies would have to change their practices for managing litigation due to the increase in electronic data and founded PSS systems. She spent a year interviewing practitioners and researching the space to develop Atlas, a software

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Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 6)

SM: I read your book before taking your story seminar, but when I did take the seminar what I found impressive was the level of clarity of the framework of storytelling that you present. The way you have approached the framework of storytelling is unique. I don’t know many people who have been able to get to

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Deal Radar 2009: Cellufun

Today’s Deal Radar shifts its focus back to mobile gaming with Cellufun. Arthur Goikhman, Steve Dacek, and Cary Torkelson founded Cellufun as a single-user downloadable game business in 2006. After creating a few downloadable games, the team learned that not only were they expensive to create, but they also had a hit-or-miss success rate and

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Sprint and T-Mobile Merger?

Rumors are going around about the possible acquisition of Sprint-Nextel by the parent company of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, which recently merged T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to be the leading UK carrier. Both Sprint and T-Mobile have been losing subscribers due to the intense competition between the iPhone, available on AT&T, and the BlackBerry, available

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Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 5)

SM: “The Reader” was a commercially successful art movie. RM: Yes. Also a British film. I think it was commercially successful and it was a beautiful film. I thought that “Julie & Julia” was a wonderful light comedy with a great deal of sophistication.