Thursday November 28, 2024

Wasn’t Ready.

Joe Biden now says he wasn’t ready for the attack on him by fellow Democratic candidate for President, Senator Kamala Harris, in the recent debate.  The question is why not.  Biden has a long legislative record, and he knows he must defend it during the lead-up to and in the primaries.  He has been taking […]

Expensive

Walmart is learning that taking on Amazon is expensive.  It is set to lose a billion dollars this year as it grows its online business.  This has apparently ignited tensions inside the company as executives jockey for power.  Walmart might be forgetting that Amazon itself lost billions as it built market share.  There was a […]

Taking The Blame — Sort Of

Samsung’s chief of mobile phones has publicly taken the blame for the failures of its fold-out phone.  He says he released it too early.  This belated PR move is proper but hardly enough.  There are many waiting with pre-orders for the instrument who now don’t know when they will get it, if ever.  Samsung itself […]

Better Than Nothing?

Ten Democratic candidates for president “debate” tonight and 10 more tomorrow night.  There is no time for them to get into issues and there are too many of them.  They are in the stage because it is a first — and perhaps, last — chance to be in the national limelight.  For most, it won’t […]

Essential

It is essential for  online information purveyors to catch cheaters because crooks diminish the credibility of the companies’ services. Consider Google Maps.  Millions of businesses have posted false location and phone information in order to dupe potential customers.  Google is working hard to root them out, but it has a long way to go, and it […]

Off For A Week

I’m taking a week off while traveling.  I’ll be back Monday, June 24.   Tweet This Post

The Big Lie

Habitual prevaricators tend to believe lies they tell, even when presented with evidence to the contrary.  Here is a case.  Trump is claiming his internal polling shows him ahead in every state his campaign has surveyed.  Other polls not from his campaign show him well behind.  Trump is not the only one to believe himself […]

Losing The Workforce

A struggling company faces a challenge when it loses the confidence and dedication of its workforce.  In order to turn around it needs hard work from employees and not complaints and slow-downs.  This is the HR problem Tesla is facing.  Workers are losing faith in the company and its leadership.  Meanwhile, Tesla continues its struggle […]

Looking For A Market

Boston Dynamics, the research company that builds pedal robots, is releasing its first product, called Spot.  Spot is a yellow and black quadruped canine whose head is a television camera and teeth a robot arm.  The only challenge for Spot is whether the marketplace needs a robot that can walk like a dog and is […]

Unintended Consequences

Sephora, the beauty products retailer, is facing a social media storm that comes from an Instagram mistake.  An online query whether it shipped to Israel followed by another query whether it shipped to Palestine produced a botched answer through no fault of Sephora.“Sephora does not ship to Israel or the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza […]