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POPSMicrosoft's woes? The hits seem to keep coming for Microsoft who has hard time imposing Vista on the market, faces issues with Excel, a flagship product, and lost an important legal battle with the EU Commission over its competitive behavior. While Microsoft's tactics justifiably cause customers to be concerned, I believe the weapon of market dominance ends up being a boomerang for a company because its erodes its relational capital with customers and local communities, drives intense reactions from competitors and regulators and probably leads to some form of complacency and arrogance of its personnel, who may end up believing that whatever they release will end up being bought by a market taken hostage by their employer.
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POPSWhat do they mean "recession fears"? Quite a strange headline from the FT speaking of Wall Street's recession "fears"? Is the Street blind, deaf and comatose to the point of having completely missed the news that the US economy has been in recession since December 2007?
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POPSSolving the cllimate crisis with game theory This article provides an interesting perspective on the current dynamics of paralysis in the way the international community deals with climate change. It also offers pretty interesting and practical actions that could help break the deadlock and start moving towards measurable improvements in the way we use the global environment.
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POPSOECD study on spending in education Interesting figures about overall spending in education in OECD countries. The article (in Greek) focuses on the situation in Greece, which looks pretty dire, but I wonder if the study takes into account the amounts spent by families on extra classe and private lessons.
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POPSOnline dating boosted by recession? A most intriguing piece by The Economist states that dating sites seem to be doing rather well with the recession. The correlation between the Dow Jones falling by more than 100 points and the increase in the traffic of one of the dating sites was arguably the most astonishing of all facts presented in this article.
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POPSSocial media bigger than previously thought A very interesting conclusion of recent study by Pew shows that social media is on track for faster adoption than previously believed. And this means that the media landscape is on the brink of yet another radical change in the way owners of content relate to their audience and communities. Exciting stuff.
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POPSShould the Treasury's intervention be more targeted? Here's an interesting take on the Geithner plan for shoring up the banks' financial situation. The article makes a compelling argument as to why the plan is not really a great deal for would-be investors and definitely a loosing proposition for taxpayers. With my training in business management and finance I can see the validity of the issue raised here. In fact, I'd be in greater agreement with Nouriel Roubini's recent position that the banking system should be nationalized; with the understanding of course that only the payments and credit system for businesses and individuals would come under the government's fold. All this makes me realize how wise the Belgian legislation is when it mandates that each company's and citizen's debt be centralized and monitored so as to remain within reasonable limits with respect to that entity's revenues.
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