Business 2.0 lists the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2006.I loved this YouTube video of a BBC interview with an "IT expert" on an Apple industry move. They accidentally brought on the wrong guy, and a taxi driver off the street ended up in the analyst hot seat trying...
George Santayana, too, despaired of a generation’s ignorance, warning that ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ That was 1905. Really, don’t we all know by now that finding examples of teens’ and twentysomethings’ ignorance is like shooting fish in a...
Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad's documentary-essay films integrate performance, music, and innovative documentary techniques to raise politically sensitive questions, particularly on topics of race and religion. Muhammad positions himself as an interlocutor between Malay-Muslim, Chinese, and Indian communities of Malaysia and Indonesia to...
UnitedHealth Group Inc. and its former chief executive officer, Dr. William W. McGuire, made headlines again last week in connection with alleged backdating of stock options. This time, though, it was as part of CNNMoney.com's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business'' during 2006. Now in...
To: LABOR EDITORS Contact: Chris Kofinis of WakeUpWalMart.com, +1-202-486-6422 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, as reportedon CNNMoney.com, Business 2.0 released its 7th Annual look at thedumbest moments in business from the past year and declared Wal-Martits grand prize winner for the #1 "Dumbest Moment in Business" for2006. ...
Poll Also Finds Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil Most Overpaid CEO -- Paris Hilton Named as Most Overpaid Celebrity DULLES, Va. -- AOL Money & Finance (http://money.aol.com ) today released the results of its Best and Worst in Money 2006 poll* (http://money.aol.com/best-and-worst-in-money-2006/ ) as voted on by...
"TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY" -- *** -- Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen; rated PG-13 (vulgarity, violence, profanity, drugs, brief sex). "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" is every bit as dumb as the dumbest of this year's movies -- especially...
Back in 1981, Journey was one of the first bands to air a live concert on MTV. This was during the days when TVs weren't made with built-in stereo. So the concert was aired as a "simulcast," which meant the audio could be picked up on certain FM-radio frequencies. ...
This probably will be my dumbest column of the year, and I say probably to allow for some future knuckleheaded analysis that may fly off my fingers on a moment's notice. A column predicting the next World Series champion ensures that the writer will A)...
Maybe drafting Deron Williams wasn't the dumbest idea since New Coke, after all. Rate the Jazz guard's back-to-back games against the Hornets' Chris Paul "PG" for "pretty good." Both had their moments, each team won a game. ...
THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF TIME INC.'S BUSINESS 2.0 features its annual roll call of the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business,'' and Google gets its own special treatment, coming in at No. 18 and No. 19 on the list. No. 18 details how a new...
Some publications make an annual event of presenting the richest, the most available, even the dumbest Darwin Awards people in America. Offering a different take on hero worship, the editors at Wired magazine recently announced in print their own list of the 50 Best...
NEW YORK -- Business 2.0's February issue features an annual roll call of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. This year's list even includes some brilliant companies: Google is on the list twice! Grand Prize Winner, Dumbest Moment of 2005-- "Bubble Trouble": AvalonBay Communities is...
NEVER, NEVER ON NOVEMBER 10, 1955, IN ALL OF THIS STIRRING, ALL the hell-raising that went on in this hall, could I ever have imagined that I would be sitting here at this table again fifty years later. It was all arranged differently than...
WHO DO YOU think are the stupidest people in the world? Iranian bikini salesmen? Tanning salon operators in Death Valley? Up until a few weeks ago, I wasn't sure, but now I believe I have found the group deserving of the title Dumbest...
Byline: T.L. STANLEY Executives at CBS call it a Rolaids moment. They decided, about five seasons ago, to put the young hit "Survivor'' on Thursday nights to go toe-to-toe with one of the most powerful shows on TV, NBC's smash...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. landed a spot on Business 2.0 magazine's list of the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" for 2004, just barely. Here's what came in at No. 99: "Save 30 percent! Or, on second thought, don't buy from us at...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The latest issue of Business 2.0 (www.business2.com), on newsstands January 31, features the magazine's fifth annual list of the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business," spotlighting the biggest business blunders and comical corporate missteps of 2004. This year's list of foolish business moves highlights icons ranging from Barbie...
THE DUMBEST MOMENTS IN BUSINESS HISTORY BY ADAM HOROWITZ AND THE EDITORS OF KBUSINESS 2.0 £9.99 Nicholas Brearley Publishing ISBN 1-85788-351-9 Josh Quittnor, the editor of the San Francisco based Business 2.0 magazine provides a introductory statement to this book that tells us that it is a collection of...
Is it human nature to laugh about others' mistakes? C'mon, admit it--there have been a few times when you have watched someone make an obvious blunder and snickered to yourself. Maybe seeing someone else make a mistake is an opportunity to release some...
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