IFIC chairman steps down while his company, Norbourg, investigated by RCMP: “MONTREAL (CP) - The chairman of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada stepped down Thursday after RCMP and other police officers swooped down on several offices in Montreal and Toronto as part of a major fraud investigation against his company, Norbourg Asset Management Inc.”
With [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s son quits as a News Corp. exec: “LONDON (MarketWatch) — Lachlan Murdoch announced plans to leave the family business Friday, saying he’s quitting as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. to return to his native Australia.”
My take: The position of “deputy chief operating officer” of the media conglomerate was specially created for [...]
The Kelsey Group: “Seattle-based Marchex, which is the parent of TrafficLeader, the SEM/SEO firm behind several YP (and newspaper) simplified search marketing programs, has announced the roughly $30 million acquisition of IndustryBrains, which operates a vertical/contextual ad network.”
Relatively little press has been given to Seattle, Wash.-based Marchex’s acquisition of pay-per-click contextually-targeted advertising network IndustryBrains in [...]
Future not so friendly (Edmonton Sun): “Telus has blocked access to a union-run website, claiming it posted confidential information and was attempting to harass and intimidate workers by publishing their pictures.”
I’m grossly disturbed with the news that my Internet service provider, Telus, blocked my right to visit any Web site that I desire to read, [...]
IAC Completes Acquisition of Ask Jeeves: “IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Ask Jeeves, a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services.”
As I previously reported in late March 2005, Barry Diller’s company IAC was proposing a $1.85 billion all-stock deal to acquire Ask Jeeves, Inc. [...]
News Corp to buy Intermix for $580 million on Yahoo! News: “News Corp. on Monday said it would buy Intermix Media Inc., owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million in a move to expand the media conglomerate’s Internet offerings.”
Absolutely stunning, and thrillingly, good news to happen in the online social networking [...]
It appears, according to a published news report in Friday’s Capital News by contributor Jason Luciw, that despite the continued spin from Orchard Park Mall administration, Kelowna’s venerable mall is suffering. Two anonymous store owner-managers, who declined to be identified as they’re trying desperately to renegotiate high lease rates because of the downturn in traffic [...]
A lot of ink has been splashed on the pages of Central Okanagan newspapers the past couple of weeks on the decision taken by Interior Health Authority to open an outreach service office and dirty needle safe drop-off and exchange on Kelowna’s Leon Avenue two doors to the west of the Kelowna Drop-In and Information [...]
Doug’s note: This is a re-post from an written opinion piece I posted on another weblogging service that I am consolidating here, on Doug’s Blog. It was originally posted Sunday, June 5th, 2005.
News that Apple is dumping long-time business partner IBM Corp. and marrying Intel Corporation beginning in 2006 is both shocking and a bit [...]
Subway Ends Free-Sandwich Promotion: “The Subway restaurant chain is ending its decades-old free sandwich promotion, company officials said Thursday, amid concerns that counterfeiters were creating and selling copies of the restaurant’s proof-of-purchase stamps and cards. Under the Sub Club promotion, which had run in some form since the 1980s, customers received a stamp for every [...]
