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...columns, but "Anxiety of Influence" was not awesome [March 29]. I found it ignorant and sad that Stein described his wife's comment "God, I hope [our son] doesn't have Asperger's" as "trash-talking." If he did face such a challenge, Joel, would you love him any less...
Greenville's geek-savvy campaign was a fast operation too; it came together in less than 14 days. Highlights included a YouTube channel and a cartoon with instructions on how to participate in the glow-stick event (plus a tout for the town as the birthplace of a co-inventor of the laser, which gave rise to fiber optics). "We're a city in the midst of reinventing itself as a tech community, and we think Google Fiber could really help," says Aaron von Frank, the baby-faced 31-year-old tech developer who spearheaded the effort to get Google...
...irony is overpowering, says Lowenstein. "Less than a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when prevailing orthodoxy held that the free market could govern itself, and when financial regulation seemed destined for near irrelevancy, the United States was compelled to socialize lending and mortgage risk, and even the ownership of banks, on a scale that would have made Lenin smile...
...that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous but profitable units that sell two-way police radios, barcode scanners and networking equipment for telecom carriers...
...cost of that failure? By 2008, market value had fallen by more than $37 billion in less than 18 months, and in 2009, Motorola's market share was halved from the prior year. Motorola fell from the No. 2 mobile manufacturer globally to barely eking out a spot in the top five, leading some to suggest that the handset unit should close shop. Investors, including billionaire activist shareholder Carl Icahn, began agitating for Motorola's breakup...