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Comment Re:Quarterly Focused? (Score 4, Informative) 222

by firellama on Friday June 24, 2011 @03:59PM (#36559454) Attached to: Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns

Quarterly Focused means that they are looking to hit their quarterly financial targets rather than the strategic long-term objectives. Companies that do this tend to be loved by analysts, but encounter difficulties when competition leaps ahead (usually by investing in R&D or technological breakthroughs).

How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds 237

Posted by timothy on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:11PM from the with-maps-microscopes-and-strippers dept.

prone2tech writes "Both NPR and Wired are running stories about how nearly two decades ago, a dogged, absentminded Canadian geologist named Charles Fipke who was practically down to his last nickel when he discovered diamonds in the Northwest Territories. Back then there was no such thing as a Canadian diamond, and today, Canada is the world's third-largest producer. The story behind the addition of Canada to the ranks of diamond-producing nations leads back to this one man. His discovery started the largest staking rush in North America since George Carmack found gold in the Klondike a century earlier."

Comment Re:SearchStatus for Firefox (Score 1) 113

by firellama on Thursday October 19, 2006 @04:46PM (#16507987) Attached to: Alexa, Amazon's Most Flawed Idea

What you are basically saying is that Google Pagerank is useful. What's really different if you don't bother with Alexa? Google Pagerank = Google Pagerank + Alexa Rank

Intel's Sales Down, Current Gen of Products Weak 249

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 06, 2006 @01:28PM from the ouch-indeed dept.

DoctorBit writes "According to an article in EETimes, Intel's processor sales dropped 52 percent this April as compared with April one year ago. Unit sales dropped 21 percent and prices dropped 40 percent. The article concludes with an industry analyst's assertion that 'Intel has obviously given up on making any money on their current generation of processors and has started a price war with AMD.' The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Intel has just put several of its money-losing communications businesses up for sale and notes that 'it remains to be seen what Intel will do with its other money-losing businesses, Itanium microprocessors and flash memory chips.' The article quotes an industry analyst saying 'If you look at Intel today, it's hard to find a trace of the technology or the people that they spent more than $10 billion on.' Ouch."

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