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I teach college classes on innovation, as well as speak regularly on the topic.  And I am frequenty asked how to determine whether new products are sustaining innovations, or disruptive ones.  In 2008, the most common product I was asked about was the iPhone.  To me the answer was obvious.  As a...

The Rocky Mountain News has folded up shop.  After 150 years, no more newspaper in Denver, CO. (read article here).  This is newsworthy because of the size of Denver, but the trend has been obvious.  The newspaper's owner (Scripps) closed the Albuquerque Tribune and Cincinnati Post last year.  A...

The business news in 2009 is about as expected in 2008.  The recession is deep, and shows no sign of abating (see news here.)  Meanwhile many are disappointed in the extremely expensive stimulus bill passed by Congress, including both democrats and republicans.  Television press of all sorts took...

General Motors per share value plunged to $1.56 today - reaching a company value of less than $1billion (read article here).  The company hasn't been worth this little since before paved highways were common.  Investors obviously don't give the company much chance of surviving. General Motors sim...

The newscasters around Chicago have been lit up with indignity the last 2 days.  Forbes magazine released its in-house study of Americ'as most miserable cities, and ranked Chicago 3rd - behind Stockton, CA and Memphis, TN (read article here).  As you might expect, even though Chicago has long had ...

General Electric's (chart here) future earnings and valuation were recently lowered by an analyst at J.P. Morgan (read article here).  Reviewing the difficulties facing GE he commented, "Former [Chief Executive Jack] Welch built a culture of earnings management that was unsustainable."  One of th...

Dell had a tough day Thursday when J.P.Morgan downgraded the stock to the equivalent of a sell (read article here).  The stock continues its relentless slide - despite the return of Mr. Dell as CEO (chart here).  Some quotes: "Our downgrade ... focuses squarely on the potential that Dell's PC expo...

The U.S. banks are asking for more bailout money - and Congress is resisting (read article here.)  Most people don't understand why banks are failing, and lots of them are ready to say "let them fail."  But why they are failing is important - because the solution has to be linked to the diagnosis,...

Last week was quite a contrast in tech results.  Google announced it had hired 99 new employees in the fourth quarter, but was planning to lay off 100.  Not good news, but a veritable growth binge compared to Microsoft - that announced it was laying off 5,000 from its Windows business.  To pu...