Tag Archives: Failure

Why Investors Should Worry About Cleantech’s Response To 60 Minutes

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Two weeks ago, 60 Minutes aired a 14-minute segment called “The Cleantech Crash.” The segment was not well-received by the cleantech industry. Climate Progress dismissed it as a “hit job.”...

Next Nintendo Console Rumors

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The Wii U is in trouble. Nintendo failed to come within striking distance of lofty sales projections, third-party developers are few and far between, and even a well-reviewed Mario game. It’s bad...

New England Patriots Face Failure for Super Bowl 2014

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The two sides were fully armed with their individual players. On one side was Tom Brady while on the other was Peyton Manning. The New England Patriots locked horns with the Denver Broncos. And the...

Gun-Toting At The IRS

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The IRS wields enormous power, but should agents be armed too? With all of the controversy facing the IRS and the tax system these days, it can seem doubly scary to contemplate tax collectors being...

Yahoo’s COO de Castro Hit Two Of The Three Main Causes Of Executive Onboarding Failure

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It’s not a surprise that Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has fired COO Henrique De Castro. Yes. He was her first big hire. Yes. It is going to cost Yahoo crazy amounts of money to pay him off. But he does...
    






The Partridge Family’s Dave Madden dead at 82

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The world lost another great actor this week. Actor and comedian, Dave Madden, best known for his grumpy role in the 1970's sitcom "The Partridge Family," died at a hospice center in Jacksonville on...
    






Will Wearable Computing Be Tim Cook’s Rubicon or Waterloo?

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Many misinterpreted my column of yesterday as predicting that Tim Cook and Apple will fail. Even Paul Carroll, my “New Killer Apps” coauthor, took it that way, and suggested that Napoleon at the...
    






Nintendo’s Imagined Success Is More Dangerous Than Their Current Failure

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There’s big news today that Nintendo has drastically revised their fiscal year forecast of Wii U sales, cutting the prediction from 9 million to 2.8 million,  just a few months before the goal was...
    






Acetaminophen Warning

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It was only recently that some of the dire consequences of taking overdoses of OTC drugs were examined by the FDA. In particular, acetaminophen which is found in such over the counter medicines as...