Tag Archives: Google

How will Google do in the phone business?

This is not about the Google Nexus One Android powered phone. This is about business and economics. My question is simple: how will Google fare when it’s straying away from its core business? When Apple went from the computer sector into the music business with the iPod and iTunes, then jumped happily and successfully into

A harsh look at “old media” (1)

Discussed: Google, new and old media , boning a duck, hard facts not spin, moguls, business models The following scene is by now fairly well known. It was recently excerpted in the New Yorker and has now been nicely built in writer Ken Auletta’s “ Googled ” book. It goes as follows: back in 2003,

Le K du Q

J’emprunte mon titre à Nougaro. “Dans l’âme, j’ai un grain de folie. Tu as un grain de beauté sur la fesse. Dis-moi, de ces deux petits grains dans ce grand lit, lequel des deux va germer, Princesse?” J’y pense après avoir appris par le patron du site francophone de Bluewin sur lequel j’ai le plaisir