Month: November 2013

This article talks about the not so recent emergence of soldiers for hire. Mercenaries have been around since the Medieval Times. In Iraq and Afghanistan,…

A real life example of Mergers and Acquisitions can be seen in the recent back and forth between Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A Banks Clothiers…

In the Wall Street Journal article, “M&A Mystery: Why are Takeover Prices Plummeting?”, Monga outlines the recent decline in frequency of acquisitions occurring as well…

An article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Startup Scrambles to Replace Eggs” details the plans and progress of Hampton Creek Foods to recreate the…

Apple seems to be looking to join the gesture-technology movement with an acquisition of PrimeSense. Bloomberg Businessweek said it could not completely confirm the report…

In class I chatted about the challenge of funding basic science in a world of which the US is an ever-smaller slice.Note 1 The economic…

Online retailer Flipkart is looking to cut down on technology refinement costs by opening its technology platforms to software coders.  Making its source code open source allows firms or individuals to freely create new applications for the entire ecommerce industry.  The company made its product “Phantom” open source three months ago and just recently made “HostDB” open source.  Contributors to open source code do not receive payment their work, which greatly cuts down on costs.  Companies do not necessarily benefit from contributors’ work, but often small improvements can be implemented into their programs.  Allowing the public to create this new code reduces risk and cost to minimal values. 

Smaller companies have made a habit out of pinpointing Facebook’s weaknesses and then do a better job than social media giant could do. Instagram’s photo-intensive…