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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Boston Business Journal is reporting senior executives at VistaPrint are scheduled to receive generous pay increases, bonuses and perks even though the company's stock has dropped 27 percent in the last year:
The brunt of the salary bumps was mostly reserved for the company's top lieutenants. For example, CEO Robert Kean ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Steve Rubel public relations executive at Edelman and blogger wonders if we are living in a perfect storm for print media. Steve points to three factors at work that indicate we are: rising fuels costs and distribution of print; consumer awareness of their environmental impact when consuming media; and popularity ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Kodak's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez penned an opinion article for today's USA Today reminding us not to forget our founding printers: John Dunlap of Philadelphia and Mary Katherine Goddard of Baltimore. The two are responsible for printing the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. In his ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
American Business Media had a short brief in their latest E-news update on future postal rate increases:
Under the postal reform law passed in 2006, the Postal Service is entitled to increase its average rates by class annually by a percentage equal to the prior year's CPI increase. Given its precarious ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Dan Pacheco, senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian wrote a blog post over at PBS' MediaShift Idea Lab blog about the newspaper's success in building profitable print media products around its Web products.
Despite all of my futuristic ramblings about the virtues of social networks, our niche print ...
Posted in Innovation, New Media, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Bob Neubauer editor of In-Plant Graphics Magazine has posted a two part series on his drupa 2008 Journey:
Bob's Drupa Journey: Part 1
Bob's Drupa Journey: Part 2
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Motorola and Kodak have announced the MOTOZINE ZN5 mobile phone that combines technology developed by both companies. According to the release:
The MOTOZINE ZN5 combines a high-quality phone and camera experience to help content-craving consumers seize inspiration and share the content they create and love with the world. Unveiled today in ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Entrepreneur.com has the story of Jim Daniels owner of Rhode Island-based JDD Publishing. Daniels' company publishes Internet marketing books, services and software via the Internet. Not satisfied with the return electronic advertising was bringing, Daniels set out to use his database of leads and customers to create a direct marketing ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Jim Lyons points to a IdahoStatesman.com article on HP's plans to "streamline" it's Imaging & Printing Group.
The Idaho Statesman article says HP "will shrink its worldwide Imaging & Printing Group from five to three global business units." The article says the restructuring is a cost-cutting measure.
The Associated Press says the ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Here's the Summer Reading List from Dr. Joe’s Q3 Economic Outlook Webinar held earlier today.
Morgan Stanley Internet Trends
just published 6/12/2008; great stuff about social networking, new gadgets
Amazon Kindle – As big as the iPod?
Look at the Kindle on amazon.com
Why is it called the ...
Posted in Economics and Research Center | No Comments »