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Friday, July 20, 2012

Yahoo: Tech Or Content

Yahoo! Art (Photo credit: Kapil Karekar)

Every month, more than 700 million people around the world visit Yahoo's sites .... Yahoo's U.S. audience is second only to Google's, and larger than those of Microsoft and Facebook. ...... much of it may come from the outside, too, both from hiring promising tech executives and acquiring hot startups—two things that could be easier now given Mayer's cachet. .... Yahoo has struggled to decide whether it's a technology or a media company.

The fundamental shift Yahoo has to make with Mayer at the helm is to go back to being a technology company. That is a tall task. Yahoo is not in as bad a shape as Apple was when Steve Jobs took over. But it sure has suffered major brand damage over the years.

Good content is good news, great content is great news, but Yahoo fundamentally has to go back to being a technology company.

Bol Bachchan

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Corporations Are People

jack welch (Photo credit: challengefuture)

Jack And Suzy Welch: It's True: Corporations Are People

Buildings don't hire people. Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover DNA-based drug therapies that target cancer cells in ways our parents could never imagine...... Buildings don't show up at a customer's factory and say, "We won't leave until we solve your inventory problem." Buildings don't encourage their employees to mentor inner-city kids in math and science. Buildings don't fund homeless shelters in Boston or health clinics in Rwanda. People do. ...... people in corporations do indeed love and cry and dance. If you don't know that, you've never been part of a team that has pulled together over coffee and late nights and shouting and laughing and created something amazing to hit a deadline. You've never been in the room when a longtime client says it's not working anymore and she's taking her business to your biggest competitor. You've never sat in the lunch room when someone runs in and says the new medical device that no one thought had a chance, the little heart valve or something like it that every engineer in the place has been working on for two years, has just passed its first human clinical trials with flying colors.

It is not either or. I believe in entrepreneurship and in market forces. But there is also a place for government action. And there are spots where both have consistently failed.

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