It seems some advertisers don’t anymore, but the Market Rag does. This is the Mid-Week Market Rag for Oct. 18, 2006. The rebuilding, or deconstruction, of AOL is well underway. After May’s announcement that it would close its Jacksonville, Fla. facility, the dethroned Internet service pontiff is closing its Albuquerque call center according to a [...]
“Goodfellas” was perhaps the most notable and definitive film of the 1990s. It is still one of the most memorable organized crime movies ever produced. Martin Scorsese’s latest piece is set to define the first decade of the 21st century, which is no historical surprise, considering he shares the undisputed mafia throne with Francis Ford [...]
This just in from The Boston Globe: WCAX-TV 3 in Vermont is reporting that the body of a missing Vermont college student has been found. Police are scheduled to hold a press conference at 4:30 p.m. today. To read more, visit http://www.boston.com This is indeed a sad day for New England and another in a [...]
Cory Lidle, a major league baseball player, died Wednesday along with Tyler Stanger, his flight instructor, after Mr. Lidle’s single-engine airplane crashed into a New York apartment building. These are the times when rivalries take a break and competition ceases as fans of the sport honor a talented player even if they would otherwise call [...]
Mid-week is synonymous with the Market Rag. Firstly, Google is up in trading today after spending over a billion and a half dollars acquiring YouTube. Meanwhile News Corp is down today as the details of this trade begin to trickle down and bad news for the newspaper business continues. According to the Wall Street Journal, [...]
As predicted in my article, The Data War, one of the big two has made a major move for the amazingly popular video site, YouTube. In a $1.65 billion deal, Google has purchased the public video sharing service, making its founders (who are in their 20s) very, very rich. This deal also gives Google a [...]
An interesting piece in Engadget today points to parents, angry that schools are fingerprinting their children without parental knowledge or consent. According to the report, which originated at the UK Register, over 70 schools in the UK’s country of Cumbria took fingerprints from students and provided a database of the results to local law enforcement [...]
The New York Yankees are eliminated from playoff contention. Alex Rodriguez went 0-3, batted 8th and averaged .071 for the series. As much as I encourage positive thinking and discourage rallying the troops against something as opposed to cheering for our cause; as much as I wish the Red Sox were in the ALCS instead [...]
A lot of people have been pressing me to write an article about some of the implications of the Mark Foley sandal. I’m not going to. This public relations guy prefers not to dive into the pool of swarming political tigers and mass media birds of prey vying for a piece of this guy as [...]
Alcohol makes the Market Rag again this week. As we know, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had a record-setting week, but not every company has been celebrating the happy days. Apple CEO Steve Jobs apologized for the company’s financial practices. This comes as Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson resigned from the board of directors. [...]