September 7th, 2007
Steve Jobs positions himself as the guy who knows everything worth knowing about product design, marketing, the cool factor, and technology.
The problem with being a self-professed know-it-all is that when something unpleasant happens, like customer furore over a sudden, sharp price drop in Apple iPhones, it’s hard to say, "Gee, I was surprised by what […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 6 comments
August 18th, 2007
To a casual observer of international news, the Chinese reaction to a public health crisis is to arrest several managers and/or government officials, to quickly and harshly punish someone, and then to declare that the problem has been resolved.
The current toy safety scare only has one suicide to show for itself to date, but you […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 3 comments
August 15th, 2007
Now is the time for clear communications, as investors and traders stay on high alert for signs of weakness in the financial system.
Coventree Capital Group announced it was having trouble finding short-term funding for its asset-backed loans, causing an 80% drop in Coventree’s share price. The stock rebounded today to almost half of its earlier […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment
June 19th, 2007
Google regularly gets dragged into controversies about its values and the impact of its actions on competitors, clients and the public.
As recently as 2005, there was only one public policy person at the company involved in public policy work says Andrew McLaughlin in a post on the company’s new blog.
Some of the issues they’ll cover: […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments
February 3rd, 2007
Now we know where wannabe professional wrestling bad guys go. They must get hired by the National Pork Board.
Who else would try to bully a breastfeeding advocacy website with a cease and desist order for its sale of a fund-raising t-shirt with the slogan Breast Milk - the other white milk?
The pork zealots are, […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments
January 10th, 2007
I’ve never met him, but I have a lot of respect for Andy Lark, who knows the technology industry and how companies, media and bloggers interact.
His takes on the Microsoft give-away of free laptops, the launch of the Office 2007 trial version, and Edelman PR’s role in the Microsoft blogger affair, focus not on what […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 2 comments
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