The familiar Target Aisles in the front that carried $1 goods is an excellent hook for users. And a great way to dispose unsold inventory. However, Target has quietly introduced products that are at the $2.50 price point in the same aisles. The price tag is there, but its unlikely customers are noticing it. Many [...]
In the latest sign of the networks going the way of distributing current/recent content to online viedoe networks, CBS has announced that it will make available previously shown episodes of CSI, NCIS and others. The deals are interesting in that it covers several online players, both mature start-ups and those that are just taking off. [...]
I was trying to get some traffic stats and I went to Compete.com to get it. The links on the home page were not working and so I decided to register. They asked me some prickly questions: Salary Gender Year of Birth I was a bit unnerved about being asked for these tidbits, but since [...]
The Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) reported today Advertising.com, a subsidiary of AOL will be Ad distributor for the as-yet-unnamed NBC – News Corp. joint venture for online video. It seems like advertising.com is leveraging some of the IP it got through AOL’s acquisition of Truveo back in Dec 2005. The technology allows advertising.com [...]
The ads that appear at the top of my emails in my Gmail account have become extremely targeted lately. I can’t seem to stop clicking on the ads that show up. Google has figured out my interests in start-ups and travel. I get mostly content links from Business week, NY travel and others that are [...]
Check out this page from the Bessemer Venture Partner site. An interesting (and witty!) profile of missed opportunities. http://bvp.com/port/anti.asp Full Disclosure: Bessemer is an investor in the company I work for.
Are corporate-types finally waking up to the need for enviromental responsibility? Here is an extract from a Wall Street Journal article (behind a pay wall) NONDALTON, Alaska — Soaring in his private plane above the pristine tundra here two years ago, Robert B. Gillam experienced a conversion: The money manager and pro-business Republican became an [...]
The Heavenly ski resort at Lake Tahoe is planning to cut-down hundreds of trees to make way for a chair lift. Here is an extract from an article in the Wall Street Journal (behind a pay wall). …ski resorts, which cut down forests to create ski slopes and build condos, still haven’t completely won over [...]
I was in Bangalore recently and could not help but notice the apartments that are popping up everywhere. Real estate prices are at an all-time high. So are the stock market valuations for apartment builders. The IPO of ‘Soba builders’, a local builder, was oversubscribed 108 times. Finding 5-star hotel rooms is also difficult. There [...]
