We’ve seen a lot of M&A activities in recent years. I’m just curious why there isn’t an equivalent in geographic terms – meaning, why isn’t one country acquiring another? If that happens, maybe we could eventually attain Giordano‘s vision of world without strangers. Related post:World On Fire Technorati Tags: M&A geographic borders Giordano
Someone commented on my previous post on “Is Lee Kuan Yew a fascist?” by saying: I thought the point of this website was no “touchy feely” ideas?! Why don’t you have the balls to make any real statements and need to word everything as a question to protect your sorry ass? Here’s a few examples… Read More »
Let’s ignore for a moment the different spin different people put on the percentage of users who paid or didn’t pay to download Radiohead’s virtual album, “In Rainbows”. I think one way to deal with the issue of “to pay or not to pay” is to create incentives for people to pony up their hard-earned… Read More »
The last couple of days have been extremely hectic as I sought to transplant myself from Manila to Shenzhen, so updates were few and far between. Doesn’t mean I’m not giving pause to the pecularities in life. One thing I observed is that real estate agents (since I’m house hunting) in Shenzhen are as aggressive… Read More »
You are always on your own. Even if you work for a big company, you will always be on your own. Companies aren’t people. They’re things and they don’t have feelings. If you are expecting the company to “take care of you” or “do the right thing”, you’ll be disappointed. There are no strong bonds… Read More »
Take a look at this image (apologies for the small size as it’s taken from FORTUNE‘s online article, “Meet the Pivo 2: The car won’t reverse“) and the accompanying caption: At Nissan’s tech center in Japan, the shape of the future is a closely held company secret. I find the caption laughable because if they… Read More »