In response to Jaeh Song’s blog on Bill Gates. This shouldn’t be an issue, the man is doing everything he- can manage to do to help give back to this world. It is not a marketing move. The malaria shots do not come with windows logos on them. It’s social activism and should be encouraged […]
Now I know game theory isn’t taught in our comm 101 course, nonetheless, it is a topic which intrigues me and one which I have decided to do research upon. A game is a situation in which decision makers rely on the decisions of the other players to make an optimum decision. It’s the study […]
Recently Facebook had it’s offer to buy snapchat for $3 billion rejected. To me that is an astounding figure. I wondered how a company like snapchat, or Instagram could be valued at such prices without producing any revenue. The apps are free to download, and there is no in-built advertising. After reading up on […]
I eat the same insipid food at the cafeteria everyday, and my life would be dull if it weren’t for sriracha sauce. I decided to do some more research on sriracha sauce, and came across the inspiring story of Mr. David Tran. Mr. Tran is the founder of Huy Fong Foods, and the inventor of […]
Yahoo recently sacked around 600 employees after concluding from their performance evaluation methods that the sacked employees were under performers who were bringing the company down. Yahoo’s metric was a bell curve which measures productivity of employees as assessed by the management. A lower standard deviation is representative of a homogenized organization of equally productive […]
While I very much enjoyed the swot analysis on snapchat in xin jiang’s blog, I do not necessarily understand why she is so shocked that he rejected this offer of $3 billion. Snapchat, Instagram and the like have been fortunate to be caught in the social bubble so they will not be valued at exactly […]
I read an article yesterday on how a doctor in Maine managed to cut his cost in half by refusing health insurance. By posting flat rates on his website, and refusing any private or government sponsored insurance he was able to provide the same service to his clients at a drastically lower cost. Some clients […]
The first thing I learned while researching credit cards was something called the Credit Score . It turns out that maintaining a high credit score is imperative, as it will save you a lot of money. Any loan is technically credit but amongst all loans credit cards are the most important to understand given how […]
How should businesses combat internet piracy? Piracy is very hard to defend on moral grounds, because it’s theft (copyright infringement, intellectual property, illegal distribution, etc.) . If consumers are given easy access to a quality, inexpensive alternative to what is currently offered on the market what’s to stop them from taking it? Why don’t businesses […]
Earlier this year the government announced that it would be auctioning off a vacant wireless spectrum. This was seen by Verizon as an opportunity to gain a foothold and expose a big market. A move that threatened the stranglehold Bell, Telus and Rogers have on the market , and one that led them to actively […]