Description: As workers spend more time on Facebook and Linkedin, companies are developing social-networking services for the office. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: 05/28/2010 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2010/05/27/tm_social_net_enterprise.fortune/ Questions for discussion: Do you think there is a special role for social networking applications in workplace environments? What advantages and disadvantages are there to installing social networking… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Rex on Techs: Don’t Write Off RIM
Description: April and May may have been the cruelest months for Research In Motion, but just you wait for the new BlackBerry 6 operating system and new handsets. Rex Crum reports. Source: Marketwatch.com – video report  Date: 05/24/2010 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/rex-on-techs-dont-write-off-rim/84AABC3A-44F1-47E7-88F5-086FDAACECC8 Questions for discussion: What is the association between profits and stock value? How has… Read more »
Inside the ugly world of vulture finance
Description: By his own admission, Allan Jones of Cleveland, Tennessee, has had to tighten his belt. He apparently still has his two jets, his vintage Rolls, his Bentley, and the Maybach his son drives to high school when the boy’s own car is in the shop. But Jones did have to sell the 157-foot yacht,… Read more »
Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
Description: Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand. Source: CNNMoney.com  Date: 05/26/2010 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/27apple.html   Questions for discussion: Summarize the key points made about technology in this article? Who… Read more »
Facebook Bows to Pressure Over Privacy
Description: Ever since Facebook was founded in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has pushed its users to share more information about themselves. Time and again, users have pushed back, complaining that some new feature or setting on the site violated their privacy. Source: NYTimes.com  Date: 05/26/2010 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/27facebook.html?scp=4&sq=Facebook&st=Search Questions for discussion: Summarize the… Read more »
digits: Google TV Debuts
Description: Jessica Vascellaro has details on Google TV, which was just unveiled by the internet giant at its developers conference in San Francisco. Plus, social networking for kids and retailers use their stores to speed up shipping for online orders. Source: Marketwatch.com – video report Date: 05/20/2010 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/digits-google-tv-debuts/AC797B3D-EE37-48A4-BC25-D0E1E7A5EE64 Questions for discussion: Who is the… Read more »
Steve Jobs Makes The Worst Trade Ever
Description: Brett Arends tells us about one of the greatest trade blunders ever – a decision by Steve Jobs in 2003 to accept a safer but much lower returning investment in exchange for his 55 million Apple Stock options, now worth nearly $13 billion. Source: Marketwatch.com – video report  Date: 05/18/2010 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/steve-jobs-makes-the-worst-trade-ever/74CD1F05-723A-4E63-BB16-DA4AC94AFFD5 Questions… Read more »
Home Depot is still a fixer upper
Description: When Home Depot reported its first comparable store sales growth in almost four years on Tuesday, plenty of investors wanted to see it as evidence that housing is back. “Our sales are an indication that the economy is recovering and the consumer is back,” Carol Tomé, Home Depot’s chief financial officer, hopefully told The… Read more »
Fear index soars to 14-month high
Description: Wall Street’s key measure of volatility skyrocketed on Thursday, as all major stock indexes plummeted on concerns about the European debt crisis. Source: CNNMoney.com  Date: 05/20/2010 Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/markets/VIX_fear_index/index.htm Questions for discussion: What is the VIX? How is the VIX related to stock market activity? How do you think investors will behave over the… Read more »
A Treatment for Declining Sales
Description: Epidavros Day Spa, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., bears the name of the ancient Greek coastal town known as a healing sanctuary. But by the end of 2009, owner Sandra Rovira says the spa’s atmosphere was anything but restorative. Source: NYTimes.com  Date: 05/20/2010 Link: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/a-treatment-for-declining-sales/ Questions for discussion: What did you learn from this… Read more »
