Posts tagged with:business

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

Three years ago, on the “How To Web” conference website, Raluca Georgescu, a former secretary and beauty editor for a local women’s’ site, was presented as the creator of “one of the most important local entertainment websites”, an obvious lie to anyone who knew the Romanian internet. After I published that on my blog, they […]

The goodbye letter from Popcorn Time is a tear-jerker. Building a business on top of stolen content really brings the best in us.  

Apple just release the new OSX titled Maverick for free. I was expecting a move like this from Microsoft. Because their real business is Office, not Windows. Windows is just a window to doing a lot of things. And now is the time, with the PC market going down. 

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

The CEO of Central Media Enterprises, Adrian Sârbu, a Romanian, has quit today. He will stay on board until the end of 2013 and then make his next move. He made waves a few years ago when he was named CEO, being the highest position a Romanian entrepreneur has ever occupied The smart money is […]

Laughed so hard on his interview with a local newspaper’s site on how he was so smart on selling and needing new challenges and now he inspires other people. The truth: he sold his business because it was losing money and he was not capable to take it further than good domain names took it. […]

One o the things we Romanian lack is the spirit of criticism. In the communist era it was forbidden to criticize, at first the leader and then everybody. University professors were not allowed to express any opinion abut their colleagues academic papers. Factory workers were not allowed to criticize other workers. Firings were rare and […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]

I’m half-way through “Trust Me, I’m Lying” by Ryan Holiday and I could not help myself notice the similarities of blogs like Gawker and Business Insider to Romanian news sites in the domain of shocking titles and fake articles. The question is when or how will it end.