2020 is at an end. Good riddance. It has been a lost year for many, if not most, of the world and 2021 is shaping up to begin the same. The COVID vaccine rollout has been stalled, as might be expected. A Republican Senator is set to object to the vote confirming electoral results favoring […]
Posted on January 1st, 2021 by admin
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The Segway, the two-wheeled, self-balancing mobility of the future, has gone out of production. So much for predictions of the future. Rarely has an invention been introduced with greater hype. It would change the world. It would make cars redundant. It solved transportation’s “last mile” problem. It did none of those things and now it […]
Posted on July 17th, 2020 by admin
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There are situations in which too much publicity works against an organization. This is one. Amazon has apparently decided against one city for its second headquarters and is now considering two. This knocks the efforts 20 cities have made to gain 50,000 jobs the company has promised. It’s not that Amazon has been publicizing its […]
Posted on November 6th, 2018 by admin
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The company that makes the ubiquitous Tiki Torch is embarrassed. Without its knowledge, neo-nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, VA used the flambeaus in their parade that ended in violence. The company has publicly disavowed the alt-right groups but that doesn’t solve the problem of thousands of photos and dozens of videos showing the protestors carrying Tiki […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2017 by admin
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Conservationists in Northern Europe are facing a dilemma. Their efforts to save the white-tailed eagle has been successful, perhaps too much so. The eagles are now preying on other species of endangered birds. This has raised the distasteful suggestion that the eagles need culling. As one might expect that could lead to a PR disaster […]
Posted on May 19th, 2016 by admin
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The creator of a popular game, “Flappy Bird”, has called it quits and taken down the game from distribution. It seems he is upset by the amount of publicity for the game and for himself. He just wants to get back to creating new challenges and being his own man. His decision flies in the […]
Posted on February 11th, 2014 by admin
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Monster Beverage has issued a report absolving itself of the death of a teenager who imbibed two of its energy drinks. The company hired a group of doctors who reported no link to the high-caffeine drink and the teen’s heart failure. That conclusion flies in the face of the Maryland medical examiner’s report and of […]
Posted on March 5th, 2013 by admin
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Even CEOs can speak too soon and promise too much only to find they are left exposed and humiliated. Here is a case. Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit promised investors a return of capital until the Federal Reserve gave the bank a failing mark in a stress test of capital adequacy. Citigroup’s stock took a beating […]
Posted on March 16th, 2012 by admin
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It doesn’t take much to fall behind and lose one’s reputation in the high-tech marketplace. This discussion of Research in Motion’s current difficulties has been repeated dozens of times. Each time, details vary but the essence remains the same — a momentary loss of focus on the market leads to a tailspin. It is […]
Posted on July 19th, 2011 by admin
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The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the New York Jets in the AFC Championship game last night. You know that. What you might not have been aware of was the unrelenting hype about the game over the last week in New York. Newspapers, radio, TV, blogs, twitters were chattering madly about the game and the Jets’s coming success. […]
Posted on January 24th, 2011 by admin
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