] May's purchase of 62 Marshall Field%u2019s
] department stores from Target Corp. for $3.24 billion in
] June is probably what killed the Lord & Taylor deal, said
] Frederick Marx, a retail analyst with Marx Layne & Co. in
] Farmington Hills.

LOL! Frederick Marx. RETAIL analyst.

Oakland Mall plan is dropped by retailer

] Santa Monica, Calif.-based Stamps.com (STMP: Research,
] Estimates), a provider of Internet-based postage
] services, Tuesday announced a new service dubbed
] PhotoStamps that lets customers transform digital photos
] into customized stamps.
]
] But is PhotoStamps legal postage?

] Stamps.com has a license to sell U.S. postage.
]
] And it says that PhotoStamps complies with all U.S.
] Postal Service (USPS) regulations so that you can use
] your PhotoStamps to send anything normally sent through
] the mail, including letters, postcards and packages.

awww yeah! you know I am sooo going to abuse this!

Picture yourself on a stamp?

] But overhauling a traditional service design is no
] one-shot, onetime deal. Because technological and
] infrastructure changes, competition, and industry
] restructuring are ongoing, service companies need to
] constantly experiment and fine-tune their systems if they
] are to negotiate these changes in a sustainable manner.

This article addresses numerous topics springing from the current transformation from early stage information economy to more mature models.

For me personally, it's a ringing endorsement for the constant creation and destruction of an organization from within. It also lays out a recommendation for a process based organization much like what AMHC is undertaking.

Boot Camp for Service Operations

] "Publishing is broken," he said. "Sales are low, there's
] no money, and deadlines and delays are a headache. You
] have three months to sell a book and then it's obsolete.
] Last year, I realized all the pieces were there finally
] for publishing e-books."

Good ole Adam finally cracks the nut!

Net Publishing Made Profitable

] Covad executives know that despite improved finances and
] some support from the FCC's Powell, the company cannot
] rely on the Telecom Act to keep its business growing.

Covad tries an end run

] But that%u2019s exactly what Google%u2019s IPO threatens.
] By moving to an auction format with Google executives
] guaranteed, by the terms of the offer, access to the
] books so they can judge demand for themselves, the Google
] IPO shifts the balance of power toward the company and
] away from the underwriter. The auction format is designed
] to get Google the best price for its shares and to leave
] as little money as possible on the table. There will be
] no guaranteed post-IPO appreciation for investment
] bankers to pass on to favored clients. The auction
] process indeed goes a long way to eliminate the very idea
] of favored clients since the deal will be dominated by
] individual investors who set their own price and demand
] on the Internet. And as if that%u2019s not enough to kill
] any prospects at a post-IPO bounce, if Google sees
] evidence of more demand than expected, the company has
] reserved the right to increase the number of shares in
] the offering.

Good for Google that they have the cache to be able to create this kind of reform. However, I have to say that WHEN the IPO market returns in stride (and it will), most companies will not take this tact, simply because the i-banks will rather say 'no' than risk further degrading their gravy train.

As much as I think this is a relatively small evil in the face of it all, I don't miss this crap that much.

IPO's and Google

] In the current climate of consolidation, independent
] broadcasters simply don't survive for long. That's why we
] haven't seen a new generation of people like me or even
] Rupert Murdoch--independent television upstarts who
] challenge the big boys and force the whole industry to
] compete and change.

This is the original essay from Teddy.

My Beef with Big Media - By Ted Turner

HURRAY!

America's Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies

] Pity Marc Benioff. Sure, his net worth may well exceed
] $250 million when Salesforce.com, the company he helped
] to start in 1999, goes public, most likely in the next
] couple of months.

It's Not Google. It's That Other Big I.P.O.

] "After a deep three-year slump that erased more than one
] million jobs, U.S. technology companies have begun hiring
] again, marking a so far modest but solid trend that could
] well brighten the country's economic outlook," The Wall
] Street Journal reported in a front-page article today.

There is no spoon.

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