Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Major magazine publishers are about to launch a new attempt to digitize their content, according to a recent article in the New York Observer. The publishers reportedly include Conde Nast, Hearst and Time. It’s said they’re getting ready to form a new company that will prepare digital versions of their products that can work across multiple platforms.
Fifty-nine U.S. senators are asking European antitrust regulators to conclude their review of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The move, led by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is an unusual one for the U.S. legislative body. It follows a similar action by the Department of Justice, which also urged the Commission to wrap up the investigation.
You may think it’s annoying when you see the same commercial repeated during a 2:30 ad break in prime time, but have no fear — there is a method to an advertiser’s madness. They simply want to make sure you are exposed to that product’s branding/logo even as you’re fast-forwarding past it on a digital video recorder.
I am still thinking about the George Soros quote from a recent posting. The billionaire financier and philanthropist was quoted in Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money saying that “Every bubble consists of a trend and a misconception that interact in a reflexive manner.” What he meant was that trends become what we think the underlying idea is — and that can be very different from the original.
Far from being put off by the iPhone’s lukewarm reception in China, Apple is reportedly trying to sign up other wireless carriers in the country besides its existing partner, China Unicom. China Mobile is still holding talks with Cupertino, the carrier’s Chairman and CEO Wang Jianzhou announced at the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong last week.