Jobs to become Heir Apparent at Disney?
Here’s a Hollywood rumor that keeps popping up from time to time: Disney, in need of tying up Pixar’s soon-to-be-ending...
The ugly process of patent enforcement
The long ugly process of collecting on your patents . . . Excerpt: “If you’ve ever used a modem to surf the Internet, chances...
The Bubble of American Supremacy
Harsh words from billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros. In an Atlantic Monthly article, “The Bubble of American...
Corporate Death Penalty
The first corporate casualty — as in death — appeared in the expanding mutual fund scandal. It was reported yesterday that...
Congress cuts S.E.C. budget
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself:” Despite the ever widening...
Is the threat of online piracy receding?
Upbeat, from the Economist online. “To glimpse the future, big music companies should look not at iTunes’ encouraging numbers...
iRATE Radio: Music Business Model IV
As part of our continuing search for a viable music industry business model . . . iRATE Radio: An open source, collaborative, web...
Abusing DMCA and other frivolous litigation (SunnComm)
I just came across the story of Alex Halderman, the Princeton University grad student, who had discovered that SunnComm’s copy...
Random Items
Is it any wonder why so many investors, economists and strategists are confused? Here’s a news round up: Holiday sales forecasts...
“What do we do now?”
That’s the question Robert Redford asks no one in particular at the end of the movie “The Candidate.” (Redford plays a lawyer who...