Posts tagged “business”

Forgive meMay 6, 2008

Dvorak's analogy is priceless: Microsoft could buy GM and Ford, name every car "Google Sucks," and still have $14 billion left over for a party. He's right. Yahoo isn't worth $44 billion.

MicroHoo: a temporary reprieve?May 4, 2008

Microsoft walked away from acquiring Yahoo, but it may not be over. Ballmer looks weak, Yahoo comes out bruised but okay, and Google is the real winner here, having watched its two biggest rivals spend months in chaos. Oh, and I'm relieved.

Ah, competitionAug 29, 2006

Yahoo handles eBay's US ads; Google handles everywhere else. Also, I chewed on the right side of my mouth today. Big day all around.

God bless Scott Adams. From the Dilbert Newsletter 44.0 ("A little ray of bitter...Nov 25, 2002

Scott Adams on Lou Gerstner's legendary IBM leadership: his biggest contribution was not doing something, and a sock monkey had a 50/50 shot at the same decision. Then he wrote a bestseller about it.

Okay, I have to admit it: I have gone from horrified fascination to being really quite enthralled...Aug 7, 2002

I've gone from horrified fascination to genuine enthrallment with this columnist. Today's highlight: a list of freaky merger jokes, including Polygram Records, Warner Brothers and Keebler combining to form "Poly-Warner-Cracker."