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...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...“If brands are worried about meeting quarterly targets, they can’t afford to lose Amazon sales.”...
...Read his inspiring 2005 commencement address at Stanford University — and my favourite passage. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....
...Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...Robert Levitan, CEO of New York-based Flooz.com Inc., says his product is more than a gift certificate because it isn’t confined to one merchant; it can be used at many....
...But the low-slung open-top vehicle’s exposure to the elements and surrounding traffic made it a commercial flop. To flout social norms is also hazardous....
...“But I don’t expect it to stay in the low 40s.”...
...That is the best thing the PAL deal has going for it. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...“There’s a fear factor and an anger factor” about Amazon among publishers, but the etailer is “a great pal of ours”, Ms Friedman claims, adding that Open Road “doesn’t have the legacy relationship with them...
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...“We thought Honda would take every Toyota customer,” says Jesse Toprak, vice-president for industry trends with Truecar.com, a US car-buying website. “That didn’t happen at all.”...
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...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...“Most of our users haven’t played video games before,” says Sebastien de Halleux, chief operating officer and co-founder of Playfish....
...My pal, Sydney Williams, passed along a YouTube phenom you have to look at. Go to YouTube and search Susan Boyle for a feel-good moment like you won’t believe. Watch the full 7-minute version....
...Mobile phone owners can use one of the new internet-based mobile VoIP (voice over internet protocol) services such as Jajah (www.jajah.com), Yeigo (www. yeigo.com) or Rebtel (www.rebtel. com) to cut call...
...“This is brutal,” said Marc Groz, chief executive of Topos, a quant hedge fund, who was senior associate at Morgan Stanley at the time of the 1987 crash. “’87 doesn’t compare to this – it’s so systemic.”...
...As the guys at BCG say: the ego of a salesman can take a tremendous beating. stefan.stern@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/stern...
...It takes up to a minute to download a song from the V-Cast service offered by Verizon Wireless, an AT&T competitor, even on its 3G network....
...“They [the banks] were as involved in this thing as Kenneth Lay was, you don’t steal billions of dollars by yourself....
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