From The Economist:Both the chairman and chief executive of Alcatel-Lucent resigned as it reported its sixth consecutive quarterly net loss. The merger in 2006 of France’s Alcatel and America’s Lucent formed one of the world’s biggest suppliers of telecoms infrastructure. Since then its market value has fallen by half, thanks to difficulties with integrating the… Read More: Thanks? No, thanks! »
In her article, “Fox In Yahoo!’s Henhouse“, Wendy Tanaka of Forbes wrote: “Icahn will have help in getting a Microsoft deal done. As part of his settlement with Yahoo!, two of his cronies will also get seats on the board.” Regardless of your opinion of Carl Icahn, I find it odd that a reporter for… Read More: Looking through coloured eyes »
A story on Hulu in FORTUNE magazine (“A New Way to Watch TV“, March 17) showed how an awkward sentence construction makes difficult reading. Quote:The drama surrounding Hulu’s launch heated up last August when NBC abruptly pulled its content off the Apple iTunes store – where NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock had… Read More: Awkward sentence construction »
What’s wrong with this trash mag? A C/Net blogger recently ripped apart a piece by its guest columnist, Roger Kay, who took potshots at Apple. With this kind of biased journalism, it’s no wonder BusinessWeek’s reputation is going down faster than a falling satellite. Ha Ha Ha Pardon me. Related post:How not to conduct an… Read More: Another BusinessWeek columnist takes a hit »
I wonder if it could have been rewritten to avoid misinterpretation: Vonn aims for career downhill record Vonn Breaks US Career Downhill Record Related post:Writing headlines
Story: Toshiba Concedes Defeat in the DVD Battle Quote:In a pitched two-year battle, Sony and Toshiba tried to woo Hollywood studios to release movies in their formats and to persuade computer and game console makers to use their disc drives. The struggle was reminiscent of the 1980s battle between the VHS format of Matsushita and… Read More: Even NYT couldn’t get its facts correct »