2 posts and columns on Jim Keyes

Chapter 11, In Which Blockbuster Does the Inevitable

in News on September 23, 2010 at 9:06 am PT

Repudiating claims last year that Blockbuster intended to file for bankruptcy, spokesperson Karen Raskopf said the troubled video-rental chain had “lots of plans to grow our business.” That may well have been the case, but they don’t seem to have done much good, because Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy today.

TiVo and Blockbuster Join Farces

in News on March 25, 2009 at 4:50 am PT

Blockbuster says it has big plans to grow its business. But if inking a video-on-demand deal with a declining DVR pioneer is one of them… well, that’s not much of a plan, is it?