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Google's Cash Cow: You
Sep 04 20084:17 pm EDT -
Bob Rice Blogs: A Beautiful Irony--V.C.'s Displaced By Technology
Aug 28 20084:21 pm EDT -
Bob Rice Blogs: Late Summer Here, and in Googleville
Aug 28 20082:04 pm EDT -
Bob Rice Blogs: AT&T v. Verizon. Who's the Pawn?
Aug 28 200810:15 am EDT -
Celebrity Blog: Bob Rice on Portfolio.com Thursday
Aug 27 20086:00 pm EDT
Google's Cash Cow: You
Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a touch nervous about installing Chrome, its new browser soft ... Continue
Bob Rice Blogs: A Beautiful Irony--V.C.'s Displaced By Technology
What's wrong with the industry is this: These days, it's just too cheap to start new companies ... Continue
Bob Rice Blogs: Late Summer Here, and in Googleville
As I see it, the summer solstice has passed not just for us, but for Google too. Three reasons why ... Continue
Bob Rice Blogs: AT&T v. Verizon. Who's the Pawn?
Great moves most certainly are not found, or disproven, by crunching numbers ... Continue
Celebrity Blog: Bob Rice on Portfolio.com Thursday
Bob Rice, this week's Playa, has had many careers. He was an attorney with the U.S. Justice Dept., a partner at law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, a CEO of tech startup and now runs merchant bank Tangent Capital, which he founded in 205 ... Continue
Glenn Beck Blogs: Long Hours, the FCC and Obama
I want to finish by answering a few of the questions that some of you posted earlier ... Continue
Glenn Beck Blogs: Management on the Fly
I'm a self-educated guy. I certainly have less official business schooling than anyone who has ever written anything for Portfolio ... Continue
Glenn Beck Blogs: The B-School of Scandal
My brand is based on making the news interesting, relatable, and funny ... Continue
Glenn Beck Blogs: On Radio, Platforms, and the Value of Rush Limbaugh
My politics only influence my business in the sense that I run it the way I expect conservative politicians to run our government ... Continue
Celebrity Blog: Glenn Beck on Portfolio.com Thursday
Television host and conservative pundit Glenn Beck challenges everything from politics to political correctness on his hour-long CNN Headline News show ... Continue
Did anyone at Microsoft ever watch the (gasp!) offensively funny show Family Guy?
Ex-Morgan Stanley exec Zoe Cruz is now heading her own hedge fund. Are Wall Street's leaders done?
Martha, Bernie and Skilling know that what you wear for court can go a long way in public perception.






