Archive for June 30th, 2008
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Firefox 3 hits 4 percent market share…in just one weekPosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsOpera has been striving to break 1 percent of the browser market for years. Firefox 3 did four times that amount in just one week, according to Net Applications. This not to criticize Opera but rather to laud Firefox 3. If you haven’t downloaded it and tried it out, …
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Firefox 3 hits 4 percent market share…in just one weekPosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsOpera has been striving to break 1 percent of the browser market for years. Firefox 3 did four times that amount in just one week, according to Net Applications. This not to criticize Opera but rather to laud Firefox 3. If you haven’t downloaded it and tried it out, … Of some significance this past week, Jefferies raised its rating on Novell to a “Buy,” arguing that the Linux and Identity Management vendor’s revenue stream is “as stable as you can get during a recession.” Novell has particular strength in the government sector, which is somewhat impervious to downturns….
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Blockbusters stomp on the long tail, Harvard study findsPosted by: admin in Business and Politics
Remember the long tail? It was the omnipresent theory that recommended there were oodles of cash to be made by monetizing a market’s disparate tastes via the Web. Why sell a million copies of Led Zeppelin’s Coda, when you can make a thriving business of selling two to three copies of your neighbor’s garage band to Rick, two duplicates of a Nigerian band’s tunes to Susan, and so on? As new research highlighted in Harvard Business Review recommends, the answer may well be that the real money is in the blockbuster, not the long tail, after all:
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