Does Facebook’s face-plant mean we’ve learned something?
The relatively poor showing of Facebook’s initial public offering of its shares on the NASDAQ exchange shows that, perhaps, finally, the hype around the social networking site may finally be abating. As I post this, Facebook shares have closed around $31 after their third day of...
Stop picking on RIM
It’s no secret that Research in Motion has taken a beating lately – it’s been late to market with new products, its stock price and profits are down, its market share is nosediving, and as a result, the press has been all over it. But frankly,...
Taking a bite out of the Apple Jobs myth
For those of us who haven’t consumed copious amounts of Apple-flavoured Kool-Aid, the the posthumous over-the-top comparisons of Steve Jobs to Edison, Einstein, Da Vinci, etc., have been more than a little hard to take. Fortunately, sanity is starting to return to the conversation. Malcolm Gladwell,...