Given the current economic climate, conventions have recently been highlighted as one business arena anxiously seeking out budget-friendly alternatives. For starters, meeting planners have discovered that university campuses serve as the more affordable venue versus the …
‘Services’ Archive
Oracle & Sun Micro, BFF; other tech giants are just Facebook friends now
by Jeff Dorsch, January 29, 2010, 3:06 pmWith the European Commission finally saying ja — oui — sí — yes earlier this month, Oracle closed the deal this week on its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
In one …
Desperate times call for a better hair-do
by Jenni Gilmer, September 10, 2009, 12:57 pmCan’t get a job? Maybe you should change your hair.
That’s what some European job hunters have resorted to. According to a survey released by CareerBuilder’s UK branch, 46% of workers in Europe who lost …
Staffing companies anxiously wait for the market to stabilize…
by Adam Anderson, July 10, 2009, 2:43 pmRecessions are terrible for staffing companies. Fewer industries are as intimately connected with the economy as the staffing sector: As the demand for temporary and permanent workers plummets, staffing companies are faced with the problem of placing an inordinate amount of workers into a shrinking amount of job slots. Too much supply; …
Paper or plastic?
by Patrice Sarath, June 29, 2009, 6:00 amIt’s only been a relatively few decades since credit has become ubiquitous and necessary to modern life. I know people who have abandoned cash in much the same way they have given up their landlines — with nary a thought. That annoying commercial about how …
Run, Whitman, run! Just be sure of what you’re running for.
by Jeff Dorsch, February 23, 2009, 1:16 pmIf Meg Whitman, the former president and CEO of eBay, runs for governor of California as expected and starts promising on the campaign trail that she’ll run the state government like a business, watch out!
As The New York Times detailed, …
Want not, waste not — and that’s the problem
by Patrice Sarath, January 29, 2009, 9:39 amWe’re not only consuming less in this recession, we’re throwing out less.
And this is a bad thing. It seems that the garbage business is being hurt by the lack of, well, garbage. Less garbage means a lot less money in tipping fees, what trucks …
What is cloud computing?
by Jeff Dorsch, October 17, 2008, 7:00 amSTREPSIADES: By god, Socrates, tell me, I beg you,
who these women are who sing so solemnly.
Are they some special kind of heroines?
SOCRATES: No—they’re heavenly Clouds, great goddesses
for lazy men—from them we get our thoughts,
our powers of speech, our comprehension,
our gift for fantasy and endless talk,
our power to …
Shopping at Walgreen for leggings and lattes.
by Alexandra Biesada, March 31, 2008, 7:00 amIn my last post, I posed the question: What’s next for Walgreen? In-store surgery? Boy, was I on the wrong track. While the nation’s #1 drugstore chain won’t be installing in-store operating theatres anytime soon (that I’m aware of), it will be opening apparel …
What’s next for Walgreen? In-store surgery?
by Alexandra Biesada, March 19, 2008, 5:26 amWalgreen has become the nation’s largest drugstore chain (in terms of sales) by aggressively building new stores — often cannibalizing existing ones — and greatly expanding its inventory to include apparel, electronics, food, household goods, toys and games, and, oh yes, prescription drugs. So eclectic is the merchandise …
