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Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, Advertising Age, and CIO Insight. Before going into journalism, he was head of product marketing at a publicly-held...- more about Erik Sherman »
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- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Sirius Earnings Improvements Don't Help Customer Retention, Other Problems
- Sirius XM SIRI CEO Mel Karmazin has again tried to strike an upbeat tone at the company's latest earnings announcement. But, again, the business fundamentals have to make you wonder if the company has a viable long-term future. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Microsoft Announces More Layoffs as October Tech Job Cuts Take Huge Leap
- The monthly Challenger, Gray & Christmas numbers on announced job cuts are in. Although in general cuts dropped by 16 percent, high tech fared far worse as Microsoft plans additional layoffs past the 5,000 anticipated earlier this year. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Jobs CEO of Decade Says Fortune: Give Me a Break
- I can understand why people on balance admire Steve Jobs as a CEO. I can understand why Fortune might want to feature Jobs and Apple as a winning combination to feature. But CEO of the entire decade? Oh, please. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Skype Saga Turns Out To Be Clever Negotiation
- For some time it's been clear that eBay needed to dump Skype, the VoIP service for which it paid $2.75 billion in an acquisition that made no sense then and seemed even crazier as time went on. So little surprise when eBay announced a deal in September. But there was...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Google Already Making Microsoft Mistakes It Wants To Avoid
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to avoid repeating Microsoft's mistakes. Bad news, Eric: you already did. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Google Develops New Update Compression
- Many managers tune out at technical details, but this is one time that they shouldn’t, particularly if they work at companies that distribute and update software. Google's Chrome team announced a new compression algorithm (via Slashdot.org) that it expects to keep updates small. To consider the importance, think of the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Study Shows Companies Terrible at Forecasting Cash Flow
- When the economy tanks, the first thing you hear is "Cash is king." An old business phrase, to be sure, but one that has decided impact in any industry, including high tech. It doesn't matter what your revenues are if you don't have enough money to pay the bills or...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Google Second in Sponsored Search % after Yahoo
- There's a report from comScore that Microsoft remains third in search a month after the launch of its new service, Bing, and the onset of a $100 million advertising campaign. But there's another interesting view from Compete, another web metrics company. Not only has Microsoft had a huge uptick in...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Microsoft Retail Outlets? True "Box" Stores and Other Nightmares
- Sometimes you come across a story that reads like someone's bizarre dream. But Microsoft opening retail stores? The result of a bad case of Apple envy which still remains king of retail store operations is going to come back to hound the company for a long time. This is so...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Intel Six Month View Shows Tough Task to Come
- Intel's announcement of second quarter earnings -- including a 12 percent rise in sequential quarterly revenue and 5.5 percent increase in margin -- made a lot of people happy. But from an industry view, I think the picture may be far more mixed and suggests that Intel will have quite...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- PC Market To Shrink for First Time Since 2001
- According to the latest forecast from iSuppli, 2009 will be the first year since 2001 that PC unit shipments will drop. The market analyst suggests that the unit decline will be 8.1 percent as the economy is still rough and uncertain. And that is a pretty grim prediction. Here's the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Microsoft at End of Year: Portents of Strong 2010?
- Michael Hickins and I were talking about Microsoft earlier today and the easily confusing question of whether free online Office at this point would be stupid or brilliant. My take is that it's probably the result of some clever strategy; I won't speak for Michael on this (as if I'd...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- ScriptLogic Windows 7 Study Is A Crock; Media Swallows It Anyway
- The marketing tactic of spreading FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- is nothing new in the computer industry. Many companies point to questionable studies as their tools of dissemination, like a PR agency study for Credant Technologies that I recently deconstructed. Well, there appears to be another bogus study,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Microsoft Free Web Office -- Really Stupid or Incredibly Smart?
- The news on Microsoft Office 2010 is coming hot and heavy now that the company is releasing details on the new version. And one of the big notes is that people will have access to web versions of the Office suite for free. It sounds like a counter to Google,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Google Patent App: Telemarketing Piped Into Your Call
- So you thought little services like Google Voice might come without a price to pay, eh? Not so fast. A patent application published today gives one idea how the company can find new ways to deliver advertising. A hint: they've got your number and they're not afraid to use it...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Google Grows Non-Ad Revenue Part of Business [UPDATED]
- Google's financial performance in the second quarter of the year was most impressive, and there are many places you can read about it. So let's look at some things that most people haven't, like non-ad revenues. One of Google's big weaknesses, perhaps its largest, is the utter dependence on advertising...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Could Copyright Change Fix Old Media? David Marburger Q&A
- My colleague David Weir at BNET Media recently disagreed strongly with an idea presented by brothers David Marburger, a media lawyer with Baker Hostetler, and Daniel Marburger, a professor of economics at Arkansas State University. The concept is to change copyright law to allow again the use of common law...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Bartz's Big Weakness: Hubris
- Earlier I posted about what might be Yahoo's big mistake: putting itself before its customers. But news brings a matched observation for company CEO Carol Bartz: hubris. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Yahoo's Big Mistake: Putting Itself First
- You know things are bad at a company when the earnings release crows about exceeding the "midpoint of revenue outlook range." And given the recent history of Yahoo, there's no question that things have been bad. But has the departure of Jerry Wang and installation of Carol Bartz as CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
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