Archive for November 2009

Research Highlights: comScore State of US Online Retail Economy in Q3, 2009

comScore’s Chairman Gian Fulgoni gave his quarterly run down of the online retail economy in the context of the state of the US economy.  Here are some of my highlights: Travel industry hit with the biggest drop in online purchasing by 6%, non-travel online economy dropped 1% Sales trends through the third quarter of 09 [...]

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Know when you’re beaten, but never give up!

Apple’s Market Cap Closing In On Microsoft’s (MSFT, AAPL) Remember when Apple was on death’s door and needed an investment from Microsoft to survive? Well, a lot’s changed since then.  In May 2000, Apple’s market capitalization was $17 billion. Today it’s $182 billion. Meanwhile, Microsoft was around $356 billion in May 2000. Today it’s around [...]

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A tiny banner ad is attached, with wax, to a fly at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 2009).

It’s alive! About 200 of the flies, in the 17th day of their 20-day life span, had tiny signs attached to them that read: “Eichborn: Publisher with the Fly” affixed to their legs with wax. (The fly is part of Eichborn’s logo.) The publisher was careful to tell people that the wax dissolved by itself [...]

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