Back in 1997, while I was in business school, I was working with a professor who was doing some consulting work for Kodak, and I ended up writing up an analysis and a report about what Kodak needed to do, facing the obvious coming onslaught of digital when its business had been based on analog [...]
Tags: film, kodachrome, kodak, photography
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Way back in 2005, as we sat through yet another ridiculous and self-defeating standards battle over the “next generation” standard for high definition DVDs, we pointed out that it was probably already too late, as the market was already beginning to recognize that disc-based storage made less and less sense. And yet, because the two [...]
If Silvio Berlusconi fears four years of being a lame duck prime minister as a result of the sex scandal engulfing him, he was not showing it at the weekend as he went on a walkabout in Milan, kissing babies, discussing which AC Milan players he might sell and sketching out his political agenda to [...]
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China has said it will continue with its plans to force every computer in the country to run a controversial filtering program that will further restrict the activities of web surfers. Officials at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said they would be going ahead with plans to make the software – known as [...]
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More homeowners are likely to avoid repossession than previously expected during the recession, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders. But the CML’s announcement today that it had overestimated the number of people likely to lose their home this year coincided with data showing the number of actual repossessions in the first three months were [...]
Tags: bankruptcy, house prices, repossession
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