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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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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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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