Digg getting into the toolbar business: Smart Rihanna going back to Chris Brown: Dumb Adam Corrolla taking his show online: Smart Andrew Baron’s analysis of why TV Studios will die : Smart Money’s diminishing returns : True We need more ass wiping businesses : True Obama’s budget i...

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a BBC Business article by Tim Weber from last week's economic summit in Davos. In How companies tackle the interweb thingy , he points out that while every company worth its salt has a website, many "are still struggling to move beyond having a colourful website t...

Building today reports that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' e-tendering system has been used only 50 times in the 15 months since its launch. The institution is said to be ‘baffled’; its executive director Joe Martin remarks: "never underestimate the power of inertia.� Drivers Jo...

Reading PR Week magazine last week, I enjoyed a page of the "top five New Year's resolutions made by the UK's comms professionals". Briefly, these were: Survive the credit crunch Embrace the digital age Win an industry award Find a work/life balance Invest more in CSR All pretty laudible, but I thin...

Publisher Ubisoft brought us up to speed on its financial performance today, tallying up first-half sales of €344.5 million ($443 million USD). CEO Yves Guillemot also confirmed that the next Assassin's Creed was in development. That shouldn't come as a surprise, considering the financial success ...

The R-word has arrived. In his Brickonomics blog, my good friend Brian Green today talks, not for the first time, about "the recession in construction", which he says "is looking increasingly desperate as the giant commercial sector appears to be heading for a nasty fall". Earlier this year, like ma...

Brian P. Simpson has written a nice piece on how governments first create a crisis by regulating capitalism and then blames it on capitalism when the effects of government regulation screw up everything "requiring" more so called "government action". Gold......

OK so call me an alarmist. Amazon and eBay have adjusted their sales outlook for the fourth quarter and their numbers aren’t rosy at all. Amazon.com projected it would earn $6 billion to $7 billion during the fourth quarter, down from the $7.2 billion it had previously forecast. That’s b...

Joint Aconex MD Leigh Jasper has been interviewed by Jodie O'Keefe for the April/May issue of Australian Anthill magazine (a magazine focused on fast-growth companies). The feature, The Hard Way  (NB: intro only - subscription required; a subscriber and EE reader sent me a copy of the full text...

Two months ago ( INCITE = ThinkProject! ), I wrote about Australia-based construction collaboration provider Nexus Point and the Incite product. I have just received a helpful email from Sean Kaye, Nexus Point's managing director, updating me on a few details. First of all, Nexus Point Solution...