But if they did take off, I have no doubt retailers like Target would be thrilled to double the size of their music stock while halving the floor space–in a sense, that’s who MusicPass is really aimed at: retailers, not consumers. I might be wrong, but I suspect few of the ...
businesses and farmers by raising import duties by more than 20%, leading to a loss of confidence in Wall Street and the fail of many overseas banks. It was widely considered a signal of U.S isolationism. [Pictured: Sen. Smoot and Rep. Hawley on the steps of the Capitol on Dec. 7,...
Pebble’s story underscores the risk that early innovators face. Think about the eight-track player, Betamax, Blackberry and TIVO. Great new technologies often go the way of the dodo bird. It also underscores theinherent risk of investing in startups. Moststartups fail fairly early, and tha...
Why has the decade ended in such seething mean-spiritedness, where Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas savage each other in “The War of the Roses” with infinitely greater malice than the Bickersons or even George and Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; where Andrew Dice Clay’...