Posts tagged with:internet

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

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. […]

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 […]

It’s been in the news, but there is no secret to Romanian IT professionals that ROTLD (the manager for Romanian internet domains) is behind its times in security and management (and even in communication skills, since the Tuesday incident has not been addressed in any way by ROTLD officials and not even mentioned on their […]

Our good friend Vivi is looking for ideas and recently i found a good one. Every clothing and perfume brand has an online store with a database a consumer can check for fake products. But every brand has it’s own online site and not everybody can go with a laptop and mobile internet shopping. So […]

According to this badly written presentation, Rand Fishkin from SeoMoz will be present to an event called SEM Days in Bucharest on June 5th. Good for Romanian Search enthusiasts, they will have much to learn from him. But, upon further research, he will not be present in person, but will answer questions via skype. OK, […]

I’ve remembered one argument some bloggers have when they speak about me: he’s a nobody, meaning nobody ever heard about me, i have just a small audience that does not matter in the real world. Partially true.  There are 5 to 7 million Romanians online every month on the internet and only 120.000 visited my […]

I’ve been involved in the Romanian Internet for over 6 years and during this time I’ve accumulated a lot of information. The least of my favorite part is the personal gossip. People fail to understand that a blogger writing about business decisions is not interested about who is leaving his wife for the secretary and […]

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]