There’s a new service called Yuwie. It’s aim is to compete with Facebook and MySpace. You may say that space is full, but it’s not. The reason is that Yuwie pays the social networkers to network. Unlike Facebook and MySpace therefore, who make around $8 million and $25 million a month in advertising respectively, Yuwie…
A whole raft of headlines over the weekend to cheer up the weary investment banker. First, there’s the news that BNP and Credit Agricole are going to fight over ownership of SocGen, after the French bank declared almost $10 billion in losses from rogue traders and subprime. Then another saying that Massachusetts’ regulators are accusing…
After writing my piece on Microsoft, they announced their $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Right or wrong choice? As I said in December, they should buy into the future and hence Facebook or something less over-valued in the Web 2.0+ world. Nearly $45 billion seems a bit much for a website that’s struggling to compete…
After writing my piece on Microsoft, they announced their $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Right or wrong choice? As I said in December, they should buy into the future and hence Facebook or something less over-valued in the Web 2.0+ world. Nearly $45 billion seems a bit much for a website that’s struggling to compete…
After writing my piece on Microsoft, they announced their $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Right or wrong choice? As I said in December, they should buy into the future and hence Facebook or something less over-valued in the Web 2.0+ world. Nearly $45 billion seems a bit much for a website that’s struggling to compete…
I rang my bank call centre today and, as usual, it was diverted to their Indian call centre. Unusually, I then got this message: "We apologise for disruption to our service, but we cannot receive your call at the moment. Please try again later". I wondered what had happened and, being in Asia, they knew…
