I am very curious to know if Apple is generating any revenue from app developers to promote their iPhone applications. I have to imagine that some apps are paying a large fee to be included in Apple’s full-page newspaper ads promoting the app store and the iPhone. If anyone has seen any articles or commentary [...]
I had the great pleasure of hearing Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer speak at a conference last week. In his incredibly entertaining, enlightening, and frightening remarks, he noted that in the previous 10 post-war recessions, the peak-to-trough decline in GDP averaged 1.7%. The average stimulus response during those 10 recessions averaged 2.9% of [...]
I stopped watching CNBC about 4 or 5 months ago when I could no longer handle anything they aired. Between the screaming octo-panels, the worthless guests (with the rare exceptions being David Darst, Byron Wien, and Bob Hormats – all 3 of whom are brilliant), the gibberish analysis, the amateurish reporting, and the complete disregard [...]
There’s been a ridiculous amount of coverage lately in the recruiting industry about Twitter’s impact on the space. I am a fan of Twitter and have found it to be an advantageous tool to leverage for specific applications in our business. I also think that it is an interesting and potentially valuable tool for job [...]
One of the most frustrating experiences I have with newspaper sites is trying to find a story on a newspaper’s website that I just read in the print edition. It happens quite regularly that I will read something interesting (I still read 3 newspapers a day) and decide that someone I know would benefit from [...]
Despite what will undoubtedly be more bad news when the April jobs numbers are released, there are a lot of companies with jobs listed on their company websites (still the 2nd best place to find a job behind a personal contact). Below are the top 100 companies with the most job listings on their company [...]
In addition to reporting the volume of job listings by state and by industry each month on LinkUp.com, we’ve also started looking at the top 75 job titles from our job search engine. Below are the top 75 job titles found on LinkUp in April. (The list is EXACT job titles so there may be [...]
In contrast to yesterday’s mixed signals on a state by state basis, there was no mistaking the message from LinkUp’s April jobs report on an industry by industry basis: it was all grim. Not a single industry showed an increase in new job listings in April, and the average decline in new job listings for [...]
From ‘Newspapers & Technology’ Dateline newsletter:
2 more publishers file for bankruptcy protection
American Community Newspapers Inc.’s bankruptcy could cost Gannett Co. Inc. hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Gannett’s printing group, owed $273,000, was listed as ACN’s largest unsecured creditor, according to the filing. ACN filed for bankruptcy protection April 28, citing a weak advertising market, according to [...]
The headline is not a critique of Warren Buffett in any way, I simply could not think of a word for newspapers that started with an ‘O’. In any event, Warren Buffett weighed in on the state of daily newspapers this past weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and articulated about as grim an [...]