Big week ahead on Wall Street

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Description: One year after Lehman Brothers, the stock market is right back where it was. Beyond the anniversary, reports on the consumer loom. Source: CNN News Date: 9/12/2009 Keys: Marketing, pricing, new product development, technologies Link: http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/12/markets/sunday_lookahead/index.htm?postversion=2009091206 Questions for discussion:  Explain why the stock market fell and returned to the current valuation during the past… Read more »

YouTube may stream movie rentals

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Description:  Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday. Source: Reuters News Date: 9/03/2009 Keys: Marketing, pricing, new product development, technologies Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5816W120090903 Questions for discussion: Do you think… Read more »

UPDATE 2-Time Warner Cable, Verizon to test TV on the Web

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Two more U.S. pay-TV providers, Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N) and Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), plan to test systems to offer shows on the Web to paying customers in a bid to protect their subscription revenue. Source: Reuters News Date: 8/27/2009 Keys: Marketing, pricing, new product development, technologies Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN2732267220090827 Questions for discussion: Do you… Read more »

Corporate BlackBerrys to get Google Apps syncing

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If your office has given you a BlackBerry for work purposes, you may soon be accessing your Google Apps Gmail, calendar, and contacts via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Source: CNET News Date: 8/21/2009 Keys: Marketing, market segmentation, new product development, technologies Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10315236-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 Questions for discussion: How does this new product development help RIM and… Read more »

Robo-copter can navigate inside your home

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Just when you were getting used to the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the skies over your city, they’re beginning to enter buildings. Source: CNET News Date: 8/14/2009 Keys: Marketing, market segmentation, new product development, technologies Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10309811-1.html?tag=mncol Questions for discussion: What are the possible market segments that could see uses for these products?… Read more »

Should Starbucks ban laptops?

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In my local Starbucks, there’s a bald man who wears the same pristine white Prince tennis shoes every day. He is always perched on a stool, his PC open in front of him, typing away with the middle finger of each hand. He has one of those Bluetooth thingies in his ear and he’s often… Read more »

Google pushes for new law on orphan books

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If those organizations attacking Google’s book search settlement with publishers spent as much time lobbying Congress for better laws concerning those issues, perhaps the controversy would go away, Google’s chief Book Search engineer suggested Thursday night. Source: CNET News Date: 7/31/2009 Keys: Law, marketing, consumer behavior, technologies Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10300887-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 Questions for discussion: Do you think… Read more »