Category: Business

  • World’s oldest company?

    I sat down today to write 300 words for a special New Media Age to mark ten years of ‘new media’ in Britain and I thought I’d just get some…

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  • The food industry is not the enemy

    Ad people are clever – problem-solvers by nature. Stopping them from using celebrities to promote food to kids is dumb because it’s just another creative constraint and ad people eat…

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  • But is there a redemption penalty?

    I can’t tell you what a relief it is that God has finally entered the highly competitive sub-prime lending market (from today’s slightly-more-entertaining-than-usual spam).

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  • No, really. I’m fine. I didn’t want any Google shares anyway

    Like I said, me and Warren Buffet, we won’t be buying any Google shares in the company’s upcoming IPO. Of course, he could actually buy some if he felt like…

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  • Why I’m getting lots of extra traffic (and still won’t be buying any Google shares)

    Bowblog’s site traffic has nearly doubled in the last few weeks. I’d like to think this has something to do with the sustained wit and verve of my writing but…

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  • Do me a favour, Ms Figueroa!

    The sainted geeks at Google want to read your email and embed relevant ads in return for 1GB of free storage. News at 11. Sounds like a pretty good trade.…

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  • The really big deal

    I know a lot of you come here for straightforward, unbiased advice on what to do with your next $66 billion so here’s my angle on the Comcast Disney offer:…

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  • High Street Showbiz

    The Economist on the future of retail – playing out in a mall near you if you live in the United States, ever the over-heated laboratory for this kind of…

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  • I dreamt this

    If you dial 1471 from a BT phone you can find out the last number that called you (you can get the last five numbers now, in fact). If you…

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  • Looking for Laurent

    Laurent Byford (or is it Bayford?) used to work at a web design firm called Designercity (now defunct). I need to contact him urgently on some another.com business. Do you…

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