Thoughts on Social Media

For all the attention on Nortel’s CDMA business, which was sold to Ericsson for $1.3-billion, most people are probably unaware that Nortel still has a GSM wireless business that had sales of…

Richard Lowe, president of Nortel’s wireless networks business, must be thinking about his life post-Nortel as he’s filed a creditor claim for $676,406.79 with a U.S. bankruptcy court.

In the…

According to ReadWriteWeb, Twitter has saved all of our updates, which means it’s sitting on a mountain of 140-character (or less) messages that have different degrees of value.

The…

Last week, TechCrunch reported that Dropbox had attracted two million users, just four months after it reached the one million active user mark. It got me thinking about why some…

To date, Nortel’s asset sales (aka “The Nortel Garage Sale”) have been interesting but not terribly exciting unless you take into account the public temper tantrums that Research in Motion had after…

For Twitter, advertising is low-hanging fruit to generate revenue. But Twitter continue to insist it’s not something being actively considered. So while Twitter makes up its mind…

According to the Wall St. Journal, Twitter could raise as much as $100 million from a group of seven investors that includes T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital and…

DemoCamp 22, which happened last night in Toronto, was really the “Yossi Vardi Show”. Vardi, a successful Israeli high-tech serial entrepreneur, regaled the crowd with insight, advice…

For Twitter, advertising is low-hanging fruit to generate revenue. But Twitter continue to insist it’s not something being actively considered. So while Twitter makes up its mind about…

It looks the federal government has been listening to the growing number of critics who have been chirping away about how foreign buyers are picking up Nortel’s assets with little opposition from…