Archive for May, 2008
Microsoft pays you to search: the war on margins has started
Recently Microsoft has announced the Live Search Cashback initiative. An interesting product that, if successful, can have far reaching consequences. And I am eager to see how it does.
Live Cashback gives you money back for shopping with selected merchants. Easy: make a search for a product (try here), select the appropriate result (or refine search [...]
Procter & Gamble cutting adspend and moving it online?
It was on the WSJ a couple of days ago. P&G, a big fish in the advertising market, is rumored considering cutting ad spend this year by as much as 10%. No surprise here, considering real estate and finance are having what could be defined as a “soft” year to say the least. Apparently, retails [...]
Length of real estate bear market
There was an interesting table on the FT last Saturday that reported the length and extension of house prices drop (the bear market) in 15 economies since 1970 (mainly Europe, USA + Japan, Korean, New Zealand and Canada).
On Average, the bear market has lasted 6+ years, and the prices dropped between 16% (Canada) and 50% [...]
Facebook to borrow 100mn$?
Facebook is taking up 100mn$ to buy servers (?). And apparently it is burning at least 150mn$ per year. Noty bad for the enfant prodige company that was able to get 240mn$ at 15bn$ valuation from Microsoft. They had better figure out a way to make more money, pronto.
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Nomads and wireless: how your day will change
The economist published, a few weeks ago, an interesting special on mobility. The report is called “Nomads”, published the 10th of April, and all the articles can be accessed directly from this link.
I advise you to read them all. They are very interesting, and cover many different aspects of mobility driven by the new wireless [...]