3 posts and columns on Aretha Franklin

Like Old Music On Compact Discs? Sony Has a Deal For You.

in Media on June 20, 2011 at 4:16 pm PT

Some pretty good ones, actually: Lavish box sets featuring artists like Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis. Important to remember: People are still spending more money on discs than on digital music.
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Amazon Attacks BlackBerry Owners’ Credit Cards With New Mobile App

in Media on April 9, 2009 at 7:47 am PT

Good news for Amazon, bad news for me: The online retail giant has created a version of its popular iPhone app for lowly Blackberry customers like myself. Jump ahead a bit and you can start to get a sense of how this might actually create a market for mobile advertising.
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BoomTown Decodes Microsoft's Steve Ballmer's Letter to Yahoo (The Kiss-Off Edition)

in News on May 4, 2008 at 3:58 am PT

Must we? We must! Previously, BoomTown decoded the first mean Saturday letter, sent at the beginning of April by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang, in which Ballmer threatened to go hostile with his unsolicited takeover bid. But this new one sent yesterday is a such a doozy that it cannot be ignored. Thus, we wade in with really big boots.