March 2010
Microsoft Sees a Window in Google’s China Woes →
vruz:
—via WSJ, h/t groklaw
Chinese officials are masters of divide-and-rule, a tactic they’ve put to good use to enhance their bargaining position with the foreign business community.
So there was some eye-rolling among the more seasoned Western business executives in Beijing, earlier this year when Bill Gates weighed in on the Google vs. China imbroglio by criticizing Google and offering...
Illegal-file sharing could 'cost billions' by 2015... →
seej500:
UPDATE: Following a comment by an eagle-eyed reader, I’ve realised I over-simplified my original point. This was sloppy of me, and I apologise. Corrections, backed up by government statistics, at the end of the piece.
“In the UK alone, losses could be up to 254,000 jobs and 7.8bn euros, it said.”
N.B. 7.8bn euros is, on current exchange rates, about 7.0bn pounds sterling.
This is...
kryz: Report: Music Industry Made $18 In 2009 →
NEW YORK—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that the combined revenue brought in by Warner, Sony, EMI, Universal, and countless independent music labels in 2009 totaled $18. “The music industry is back,” RIAA representative Doug Fowley said. “Not only was Kenny…
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.”
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