Annals of IP: One of the most interesting and useful products available today is the Chromebook, a very streamlined type of laptop that uses the CHROME operating system created by Google (when it was still Google…don’t which department it’s in now that ALPHABET is up and running). The idea behind the product is very, very …
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Prince Royce: Stand By Me
The Hunt For New Music: Prince Royce is probably new to you. He should not be. He’s a crossover Spanish language singer with a great voice and terrific production values. One way to judge a new talent is to hear them perform something that someone else has performed before, something you know well. With that …
Turning Points
Paying Attention: A modern F1 car is amazingly intricate, advanced, and complicated. Designed to a specification (a “formula”) dictated by the F.I.A., (Fédération Internationale de L’Automobile, the ruling/sanctioning body for most international racing) that all who hope to participate in the F1 series have to adhere to (and…it’s not easy to have your team/entry accepted…the …
Mosport GT thriller gives Risi best result of the season
It is the Houston-based team’s best finish of the season and their second podium in 2011, and the entire event presented a great spectacle for the large number of Ferrari of Ontario guests watching.
POST RACE DEBRIEF: LIME ROCK 2011
Another promising start to a race weekend cut short by fate and luck.
Alibaba ClickPak
Press Clippings: The biggest tech IPO of the year is coming–maybe the biggest tech IPO of all time. Best to be informed now, because there may not be a chance to buy on the dip as with Facebook and Twitter. Below, required background reading on a new-to-America company that you may not have heard of …
Will Alibaba Be The Godzilla of IPOs?
Press Clippings: Unless you are paying zero attention to the stock market, technology, the internet, massive merchandising trends, and the coming showdown between Amazon dot com and Alibaba dot com (and if you’re reading this piece, you are not in the zero attention category), you know two things: Alibaba, China’s online shopping behemoth is going …
DEBRIEF: Long Beach 2011
When it comes racing, if there are two places more distant in philosophy, belief systems, dress code, and karmic intensity than Sebring, Florida and Long Beach, California (AKA Los Angeles ), I have yet to see them.
Branding Google Glass
Paying Attention: You’re a smart young thing with a hot new product and aspirations of an IPO. You know that branding is something you have to do and do right to build the business, imprint the brand, jump the stock price. You can either start from scratch or you can learn from the masters. …
Hemingway on Trust
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them….”