Sunday, 2 August 2009

Why Google wishes Steve and Carol a happy marriage

"Two parties need the tie-up announced last week between Microsoft and Yahoo not to fall flat on its face almost as much as Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz. One is the British consumer and all the companies that want to reach him or her. The other, oddly, is the senior management team at Google. Even more bizarrely, they both need it to succeed for the same reason: competition."

from The Observer, 2nd August 2009

This is exactly the sort of thing I mean...

Why is there none of this going on at Blinkx?

Why is there such a massive mismatch between what Chandratillake says and what he does?

A perfectly reasonable question for a shareholder to ask, no?

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30 July 2009


Autonomy Corporation plc


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Director's Share Purchase


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Autonomy Corporation plc ("Autonomy") announces that Robert Webb, Autonomy's
Non-Executive Chairman, notified the company that on 28 July 2009 he purchased
8,109 Autonomy Corporation plc Ordinary Shares in the open market at a price of
1224p per share. Following this transaction, Mr Webb's total beneficial holding
in the Company is 8,109 Ordinary Shares.


from ADVFN

Rivals strive to topple Google in quest for the 'perfect search'

"Over the past 10 years one company has led a revolution fuelled by our insatiable appetite for information. Now Microsoft and Yahoo are taking Google on as the world races into a new and expanding era of online search..."

From The Observer, 2nd August 2009

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Follow-up letter to Dr Michael Lynch of Autonomy

Dr Michael Lynch,

CEO, Autonomy Corporation,

Cambridge Business Park

Cowley Rd

Cambridge

CB4 0WZ

1st August 2009

Dear Dr Lynch.

Many thanks for your letter of the 29th July: I am fully aware of how busy you must be and appreciate your taking the time to reply.

And I am, of course, reassured by your comments about the quality of the Blinkx management team. I’m not sure how I square your reassurances with the fiasco of the Miva ‘bid’, but I’ll let that pass.

Just one follow-up point – to which I don’t require an answer, but which you may care to ponder in a quiet moment: if Blinkx has that bright and successful a future ahead of it, why aren’t the management team buying shares in the company? Don’t they want to be as rich as you are, one day?

Yours sincerely,

What happens when a CEO shoots their mouth off to journalists and then doesn't deliver...

“Boatloads of Money” Brings Boatloads of Trouble to Yahoo’s Bartz: The D7 Video (Plus How the Deal Almost Sank)

UK Online video viewing drops below global average
























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From New Media Age, 30th July 2009

Genius...