Tyler Perry, American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and author, is a great story. He might be best known for his first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2004), and television show Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (2006). But if you don’t know him yet, you’re likely to very soon. And not through Hollywood. Through [...]
Yesterday, Economist.com published a piece titled “Media: A World Of Hits.” With much more choice for media consumers, the blockbuster was supposed to have been hurt. According to the article, it’s doing just fine. You can read the article here.
I’m thankful for good health and great people. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
This morning, Google announced new search ad formats. It’s known for its text ads within search results, but that’s only one way of consuming information. In some cases, videos and pictures are more effective. In the announcement, Google also talks about providing “richer types of information.” It provides an example, “If you’re looking to buy [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook Inc. has established a Class B stock, which carries ten times the voting power of Class A stock. All existing shareholders’ shares are being converted into the new Class B stock. You can read the article, here.
Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice-president for worldwide product marketing, gave his first signifcant interview on the App Store approval process today. Schiller’s comments from the businessweek.com article: “We’ve built a store for the most part that people can trust,” he says. “You and your family and friends can download applications from the store, and for [...]
At first, I wanted to stay away from the report that Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. are discussing an exclusive search partnership with Microsoft (i.e. Bing). After all, it’s just announcing that they’re discussing. I discuss a lot of things with a lot of different people, while I actually end up doing only a few [...]
Google just announced that it’s acquiring Display Ad Company, Teracent. You can read Google’s official announcement, here.
Zero Hedge, started by Dan Ivandjiiski (aka “Tyler Durden”), is a finance blog. I’m not a regular reader of the blog (yet?), but it seems like many in the finance industry are. It has experienced an incredible rise in popularity since its (recent) inception on January 9, 2009. According to compete.com, it boasts 161,401 unique [...]
Bloomberg is reporting that Facebook shares are selling for $21 on SecondMarket, up from $14.77 in July. According to its site, SecondMarket is “The Secondary Market for Illiquid Assets.” Possible reasons why share prices have spiked: September 15th — Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announces that its site now serves 300 million people across the [...]
Warren Buffett recently appeared on the Charlie Rose Show. Their talk focuses on Berkshire Hathaway’s recent acquisition of Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway, the U.S. economy, China’s economy, the global economy, and even Warren’s thoughts on why he doesn’t own several houses or a bunch of cars. To see the video you’ll have to navigate [...]
One author has candidly answered that question. To prove it, she’s posted her royalty statement. The book is called Twilight Fall. The author is Lynn Viehl. Here’s one quote from the article: “Speaking of comparisons, the publisher’s portion of sales on this book has grossed them around $453,839.68. I don’t have any hard figures on [...]
I just came across an interesting interview with Jeff Bezos. It can be found, here.
I just came across this group of videos on the Web. Some notable ones include: Loopt, AdMob, Twitter, Dropbox, and Mint. See the list and watch here.
First things first, I believe in execution. But you have to execute something. And it starts with an idea. I think when people are brainstorming “business ideas”, they’re really trying to find a great market first, but many probably don’t realize this. Often times, I’ll hear people say they’ve thought of the next best thing [...]
There’s a special on CNBC tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT (which is right now) where Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will take part in a town-hall meeting at Columbia Business School. Topics include: economy, the future of capitalism, the American dream, and corporate social responsibility. *Update* In case you missed it and want to see [...]
This past week, Fortune featured the “CEO of the Decade” in its magazine and on its website. Who did it select as the CEO of the Decade? Steve Jobs of Apple. You can read the original article, here. You can read other parts of the feature, such as: “Rarely seen Steve Jobs — Where it [...]
I just came across an interesting interview by the Fool.com with Alice Schroder, author of the book The Snowball. The interview centers around the subject of her book, Warren Buffett. You can read it, here.
Over the last couple days, there’s been some discussion about Internet marketing over the Web. Specifically, lead generation spam within social gaming networks. Two days ago, technology blog Techcrunch, stirred up the Web with this post. And then yesterday, Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal, a privately held advertising agency in Denver, Colorado authored a guest [...]