From Boston.com’s Exxon Mobil 2Q profit sets US record, shares fall: “Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest profit from operations ever by any U.S. corporation…Revenue rose 40 percent to $138.1 billion from $98.4 billion in the year-earlier quarter…Setting U.S. profit records has become commonplace for Irving-based Exxon Mobil. The [...]
From Ann Patchett’s My Life In Sales: “While I was out with my last novel, Run, I routinely had audiences of 200 people a night. As those patient readers stood in line and waited for me to sign their books, I realized for the first time that book tour really is more than a goodwill [...]
September 7, 2006 – 01:37 pm
In “Winning Online” — A Manifesto, the former president of Knight Ridder digital puts forward a Marshall Plan for newspapers to conquer the online world. “Newspapers must win online,” he writes, “or face a future of painful contraction. To win…the independent companies of a proud industry must aggregate into an industry-wide network. In this network, [...]
I know I haven’t posted much on the Mac recently, by Daring Fireball has an interesting take on the Microsoft/Apple rivalry: “In the very worst tradition of punditry, allow me to make a sweeping generalization based on a few almost completely unrelated observations: Microsoft is suffering from a lack of confidence, and Apple is brimming [...]
April 29, 2006 – 04:08 pm
Is it desirable to build a company utilizing the model of al-Qaeda? This is not the first time the question has been asked. There is at least one scholarly essay on the topic and an LA Times article that looks at how well al-Qaeda runs as an organization. But if we leave behind the reality [...]
January 20, 2006 – 04:27 pm
The NY Times is reporting that Steve Jobs may be selling Pixar to Disney for $6.8 billion, a majority of stock, and a directorship at Disney. This would probably be the first step to Jobs eventually becoming CEO of Disney. Not sure how I feel about that. On one side, it might be the closest [...]
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