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April 13, 2006

Funding for Wordpress founders

- NevilleHobson.com

Matt Mullenweg, the man behind WordPress, has got a little funding: […] The growth of WordPress.com and Akismet has outpaced anyone’s expectations. Recently, I made the decision to sell a minority stake in the company to a few select... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | weblogs

March 27, 2006

Credibility isn’t equal to authority

- NevilleHobson.com

Who’s to be believed about the 60% Windows Vista code rewrite story which has been a lively discussion topic in a number of blogs during the past few days? According to Robert Scoble, it’s flat-out not true. He says... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Reputation | Software | Technology | public relations

March 25, 2006

FUD surrounds Vista

- NevilleHobson.com

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s postponement of the consumer launch of Windows Vista comes bad news about the actual code of the product, reported yesterday by Australian tech magazine Smarthouse: Up to 60% of the code in the... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Reputation | Software | Technology | public relations

March 17, 2006

Using Digg to game the stock market

- NevilleHobson.com

In yesterday’s show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release. That pales in comparison to this story from VNU’s Silicon Valley... ›››

Category: Ethics | Investor Relations

L’Oreal snaps up British icon

- NevilleHobson.com

Now this is an interesting business acquisition, announced today: High Street beauty products retailer Body Shop has agreed to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a deal worth £652m. The offer of 300p a share from... ›››

Category: Business | Communication | Investor Relations

March 14, 2006

Stimulating change in financial communication

- NevilleHobson.com

Two interesting business events that might appear separate but are in fact closely related: From BBC News: Shares in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have jumped by 30% on Monday following speculation of a bid war. On Friday the... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations

February 19, 2006

Imagine if Chevron had used a blog instead

- NevOn

Listening this morning to a BBC World Service radio interview with Peter Robertson, vice-chairman of the Chevron oil company, I was struck in particular by his commentary about a website where the public can join Chevron in an online... ›››

Category: Business | Communication | Investor Relations | Marketing | PR | Public Affairs | Reputation | Web/Tech | Weblogs | leadership

February 10, 2006

Engaging podcasts from IBM

- NevOn

I've been subscribed to IBM's investor relations podcast series "IBM and The Future of..." since IBM started this series last August. Eleven podcasts so far, each one providing a worthwhile learning experience on wide-ranging topics relating to society, business... ›››

Category: Communication | Investor Relations | PR | Podcasting | Public Affairs | Web/Tech | leadership

January 17, 2006

FIR Interview - Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek - January 17, 2006

- NevOn

Following today's joint announcement by Intelliseek and Buzzmetrics on the merger of those two firms into a new company backed by media group VNU, Shel and Neville spoke to Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek's Chief Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Officer. Conversation... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Podcast - The Hobson & Holtz Report | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

Intelliseek acquired, forms part of new VNU-backed company as VNU looks to be acquired

- NevOn

Two of the leading companies in tracking and analysing what consumers are talking about online have joined forces to create, in the words of the formal press release, the new global standard for measuring and understanding word-of-mouth behavior and... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Marketing | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

January 09, 2006

How Google could be the world's most valuable company

- NevOn

Google's share price could rise to $2,000, says the Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph quotes Caris & Co, a US stockbroker, saying that Google shares had the potential to climb faster with the launch of digital services. Those shares closed... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Web/Tech

January 07, 2006

Transforming corporate identities beyond the razzle dazzle

- NevOn

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly was the place this week for many companies to announce a dazzling array of new tech products, alliances and ventures. The best place I found to keep up with what was... ›››

Category: Advertising | Business | Communication | Investor Relations | Marketing | PR | Web/Tech | Workplace

December 22, 2005

A fortuitous move in a boom-and-bust tech business

- NevOn

Wall Street Journal: Seagate Technology has agreed to pay $1.9 billion in stock to buy rival Maxtor Corp. The transaction unites two of the biggest makers of computer disk drives, a boom-and-bust business in which Seagate has long played... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Web/Tech