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…
Economics 243 Fall 2018
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.
Currently there are 3 players – a fourth is now trying to enter. How are the incumbents fairing? – in general not well. So is…
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…
An early version of this was posted to my Autos and Economics blog in August 2013. Economics helps explain disarray in politics, at least politics…
American Airlines and US Airways group have recently negotiated terms with the US Justice Department which allow the two entities to merge. In order to follow through with the merger, American Airlines and US Airways the airlines have to forego a combined 104 flight slots at Ronald Reagan National Airport and 34 flight slots at LaGuardia Airport. The airlines were further required to give up gate rights in O’Hare International, Los Angeles International, Boston Logan International, Dallas Love Field, and Miami International.
A recent BloombergBusinessweek article covered Lionsgate Entertainment’s strategy to remain relevant and competitive in the film studio industry. Lionsgate is the studio that produced The…
According to Tim Higgins’ Bloomberg article, “GM’s Cadillac Marketing Chief Plans to Keep Ad Agency”, Cadillac is currently working on rebranding itself in the eyes…