David Card
David Card
David Edward Cardis a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...
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The Office Live initiative is intriguing in that it provides services for smaller businesses that are paid for by advertising rather than software sales.
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The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.
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The issue for an Internet-only company to service their audience and their marketing partners is better if they have traditional media offerings, too. I'm a believer in multimedia media companies.
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The future of media is that audiences -- and advertisers -- want their content services from the same brand across multiple platforms.
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Flash-device sales will surpass hard-drive sales. But the technology is not important. What's important is reaching a certain capacity at a certain price point at a certain size.
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There's a definite perception that people would be unwilling to invest or are nervous about that. Although, frankly, if people invest in tobacco companies, then I don't know. Not my place to be a moral judge.
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The thing you can do online that you can't do in the physical world is interactivity and two-way conversation.
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At some point, you want to prevent the other technology from being adopted.
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Microsoft is looking to put more eyeballs in front of its search engine.
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If they put it on the front page with a link and a picture, people will get what is going on. They will just be surprised that Amazon is doing it.
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Nothing ever replaces anything. When TV came along, radio didn't go away. This has the potential to unlock local ad dollars, but Amazon doesn't want to take phone calls.
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On one hand they're suspicious of them because of how big their market share is and the fact that they have that uniform pricing. On the other hand, they legitimized the digital music business.
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When you break down the barriers between communications, every IM user is able to send and receive more messages, which means they'll be spending a little more time on their messenger, and get a few more impressions.
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When VCR's reached about 15 percent penetration in the United States, that's when Blockbuster was created. You had this whole new business explode.