Clear Channel (CCMO) CEO Bob Pittman at the 4As Transformation Conference –...
By Tom Taylor The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info. The Clear Channel (CC Media Holdings, Inc., PINK:CCMO) CEO drew the analogy to how Steve Jobs once viewed...
View ArticleBest Buy (NYSE:BBY) CEO Brian Dunn Resigns Amidst Financial Losses
By Amy Gilroy Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) announced that CEO Brian Dunn has resigned, and will be temporarily replaced by Director G. Mike Mikan, a former CFO of UnitedHealth. The chain is now searching for a...
View ArticleToyota (NYSE:TM) Unveils Mood Sensing Car Electronics System
By William Damsky Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) has developed a prototype of a mood sensing system for the car that uses sensors to determine if the driver is happy, sad, angry or neutral because...
View ArticleFacebook UnFriends Its Fan Base
By VFC’s Stock House What should have turned into an historic day for the post-recession IPO market has turned into a calamity. Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is a business based on leaving its users...
View ArticleFord’s (NYSE:F) New Silicon Valley Lab Opens
By William Damsky Ford Motor Company’s (NYSE:F) new Silicon Valley Lab is now open to help cultivate new ideas in car electronics. “We want Silicon Valley to view Ford as a platform that is open,...
View ArticleThe Car to Surpass the Smartphone in Innovation
By Amy Gilroy While smartphones and tablets have lead the innovation in consumer electronics for many years, it will likely be the car that sees the biggest advancements in electronics in the future,...
View ArticleBy 2040 We’ll Watch Movies While Driving
By Amy Gilroy What will happen to car electronics when the self-driving car becomes real, as expected within 10 years? General Motors’ (NYSE:GM) Cadillac now plans to produce semi-autonomous cars on a...
View ArticleEven for Car Audio, High Consumer Confidence Could Mean Upbeat Christmas
By Amy Gilroy Research by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) found that consumer confidence to spend on technology actually reached its highest level for any September since the CEA began...
View ArticleThings Could Get Even Worse For Print Media
By Felix Richter Last month, we reported on the collapse of newspaper advertising in the past decade. Newspaper ad spending in the United States peaked in 2000 and has since then dropped to a level as...
View ArticleAre Automakers Running the Aftermarket Off the Road?
By Amy Gilroy This question is a question posed by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), as it’s the title of a seminar to be held at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January led by the...
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