The motor industry needs to evolve. In Southampton, UK, Ford is considering closing the factory that produces it's Transit vans and relocating to Turkey. Many people rely on the factory for employment.
The future doesn't have to be bad for anyone made redundant though. The silver lining is that former employees of motor manufacturing companies can work together to produce their own vehicles, either own-branded or on behalf of, and funded by, another manufacturer. They have the relevant experience, after all. A small group of people in the Midlands could produce the engine, another group in Southampton could produce the shell. This is how businesses should work within the network economy.
Imagine being part of a company, owned by 30,000 people including yourself, that produces vehicles in the homes/sheds of it's employees/shareholders! Imagine building a gearbox and then sending it on to someone living in the next City to have it tested and added to a vehicle. Your parts could create a new vehicle or they could be sold to a parts retailer. Profits shared between the owners of the company, who also happen to be it's employees. The co-operative may be the perfect business for the network economy.
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Friday, 8 August 2008
BT creates life!
British Telecommunications PLC is hoping to create the first Artifical Intelligence based network system.
The proposed system will repair itself and will enable the group to cut costs.
Sounds good!!
The proposed system will repair itself and will enable the group to cut costs.
Sounds good!!
Monday, 18 February 2008
Yahoo! says no!!
Yahoo! has said no to Microsoft after the takeover bid earlier this month. The company said that Microsoft's bid undervalued it's shares, the price of which will keep rising. AOL Time Warner has put forward a proposal for a merger of AOL and Yahoo! to keep it (Yahoo!) out of Microsoft's hands.
Yahoo! shares may be almost full-priced now, the shares won't keep rising for long and there won't be many more opportunities for people to make a profit from the shares other than from the dividends.
Yahoo! shares may be almost full-priced now, the shares won't keep rising for long and there won't be many more opportunities for people to make a profit from the shares other than from the dividends.
Lara Croft's National Treasure
SCI Entertainment, the company behind the extremely successful Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films, should produce a film that combines Tomb Raider with the National Treasure films. Both films total two in number and by creating a combined third one they become intertwined and make a double trilogy that will earn both SCI and Disney substantial revenues from the film and the inevitable games.
From a successful collaberation will come more opportunities for both companies to make more money. Shares in SCI are worth buying just because of the value of their brands, ie Lara Croft:Tomb Raider and Kane & Lynch.
From a successful collaberation will come more opportunities for both companies to make more money. Shares in SCI are worth buying just because of the value of their brands, ie Lara Croft:Tomb Raider and Kane & Lynch.
Friday, 1 February 2008
The Battle for ITV
The newspapers are all adding their pennys worth into the debate over whether Rupert Murdoch's BSB should have been allowed to keep the 17% stake in ITV or if they should have just never been allowed to go above 7%.
It seems our own Sir Richard Branson is buying up ITV shares and may be taking it over. Sir Richard is an excellent businessman who has built up one of the best known brands from nothing, he started selling records when he was 17! Definitely a great role model for budding entrepeneurs.
If Sir Richard was successful in obtaining ITV then the Virgin Group would be one of Britain's most successful media conglomerates with interests in tv, radio, broadband and publishing. To add more value to the Group I think he needs to launch a Social Networking site, he could give access to films and tv programmes to people, they could also let him know what they think of his products/services.
ITV and Virgin are good buys, buy up shares because they are going to keep rising.
It seems our own Sir Richard Branson is buying up ITV shares and may be taking it over. Sir Richard is an excellent businessman who has built up one of the best known brands from nothing, he started selling records when he was 17! Definitely a great role model for budding entrepeneurs.
If Sir Richard was successful in obtaining ITV then the Virgin Group would be one of Britain's most successful media conglomerates with interests in tv, radio, broadband and publishing. To add more value to the Group I think he needs to launch a Social Networking site, he could give access to films and tv programmes to people, they could also let him know what they think of his products/services.
ITV and Virgin are good buys, buy up shares because they are going to keep rising.
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Google looking at Malaysia for it's server farms
Google is looking at Malaysia as a possible site for the Worlds largest server farm. The company is looking at Malaysia aswell as India and Vietnam to site their servers.
Malaysia has it's own 'silicon valley' called the Multimedia Super Corridor which was launched about a decade ago and such a large investment by Google Yahoo! would be a major boost to Malaysias economy and make it a global player in the Network technologies industry.
Malaysia has it's own 'silicon valley' called the Multimedia Super Corridor which was launched about a decade ago and such a large investment by Google Yahoo! would be a major boost to Malaysias economy and make it a global player in the Network technologies industry.
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Shares of SCI drop 50% after talks collapse
SCI, the company behind the successful Lara Croft games, has seen the value of it's shares drop down 54% to 26p after it called off potential merger talks due to bids being too low.
Eidos Interactive, a subsidiary of SCI Entertainment Group PLC, produced the Lara Croft series of games and sold over a million of its Kane and Lynch games since November 2007. The shares in such a company should be acquired by everyone because, due to the 'crash' it is currently undervalued and the rights to the Lara Croft brand alone could be sold for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.
http://corporate.sci.co.uk/
Eidos Interactive, a subsidiary of SCI Entertainment Group PLC, produced the Lara Croft series of games and sold over a million of its Kane and Lynch games since November 2007. The shares in such a company should be acquired by everyone because, due to the 'crash' it is currently undervalued and the rights to the Lara Croft brand alone could be sold for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.
http://corporate.sci.co.uk/
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