business strategy
How BuzzFeed UK handles its redundancies will tell us a lot about the future of the business Paid Members Public
BuzzFeed UK to make 45 staff redundant [http://uk.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-uk-to-make-45-staff-redundant-2017-12?r=US&IR=T] > The website’s London workforce was briefed on the plans on Thursday evening. In a tweet later confirmed by the company, media and politics reporter Mark Di Stefano said 45 of the
Euromoney Institutional Investor sells niche hedge fund titles to Pageant Paid Members Public
A press release landed in my in-box this morning: > Pageant Media, the business information specialist, today announces the acquisition of Hedge Fund Intelligence, a series of business information, data and workflow products – including EuroHedge and AsiaHedge – and global events, which provide a 360-degree view of the hedge fund world.
Oculus joins the Facebook flotilla Paid Members Public
Is Facebook becoming a good old fashioned conglomerate? Felix Salmon thinks so [http://feedly.com/e/tRs6jlWF]: > Zuckerberg knows how short-lived products can be, on the internet: he knows that if he wants to build a company which will last decades, it’s going to have to outlast Facebook
Employment and the ageing journalist Paid Members Public
Talking of team diversity (as we were [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/03/diversity_makes_for_better_journalism.html] ), how about age [http://onpr.com/will-they-still-need-you-when-youre-64/]? > For all but a very small minority of people at the top, the corporate world is a cult of youth. The ‘up
31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/81S5RrVaWUL._SL1500_-3577.html] I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241001773/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=
Amped about ampp3d and rigorous innovation Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/ampp3d-3427.html] When I first heard about Trinity Mirror’s Us vs th3m [http://usvsth3m.com], I rolled my eyes. Did the UK really need another Buzzfeed clone? Were our publishers incapable of innovating rather than jumping on yet another bandwagon?