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...

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Illinois' Governor Rod Blagojevich has burst onto the national scene.  Not in a good way, obviously.  What's surprising, though, is how people are reacting to the fact that today he retu rned to work and has shown no inclination to resign.  They seemed surprised.  They seem perplexed that he did...

A year ago Sam Zell was telling Chicago that he knew how to make money in newspapers.  He was certain, absolutely certain, that Tribune Company newspapers - including The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times - would soon be returned to higher readership, higher ad rates and greater profits. Â...

Last month I posted an interview with an internal recruiter from Oracle Australia, David Talamelli, and decided this will become a regular feature. I have always wanted to profile interviews on the blog however up until nowI did not feel Australia had enough of a local online market to generate inte...

What to do with GM and Ford?  It sort of sounds like "what do we do about our miscreant son ______?"  The reality is that both companies are on the brink of failure - and no one believes they can survive without some sort of government bailout.  The national news is now active in the debate about...

What a day this Monday is turning out to be.  Circuit City files for Chapter 11 (read Reuters article here, and Marketwatch article here).  Sirius radio looks like it will follow soon (read article here).  And Deutsche Bank analysts are predicting GM will end up wiping out shareholders through e...

Companies get into trouble when they stop developing scenarios and plan to succeed by merely Defending & Extending what they've always done.  In the last few weeks we saw Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers disappear because they did not prepare for market shifts.  Merrill Lynch almost followed t...

Circuit City (see chart here) has announced it will close another 155 stores (see article here).  Here, right before the big holiday buying season, Circuit City is contracting drastically.  The company is almost out of cash, and is running into problems obtaining inventory.  And with the likely ...

Readers of this blog know my lifecycle references.  We start out in the Wellspring of ideas.  To be successful we have to find the Rapids of high growth.  In the Rapids life is  beautiful as we make money and everyone wants to give us more.  When growth slows we hit the Flat...