Feb 11, 2019
At school, just before the start of summer vacation, our school’s head teacher would call us in the assembly to motivate us to keep working hard during the holidays. He once said that if we improved just 1% each day, we’d be twice as good when we returned...
Jan 23, 2019
Globally, the e-commerce is growing at 20 per cent per year. The upstarts like Etsy and Wayfair started as niche businesses but are expanding outside their niche. Ebay has had a head start. It has 177 million active buyers. But it is growing at just 5 per cent. 177...
Nov 14, 2018
This morning, I came to my office determined to do some real work. I had a report to finish and then some research to do for a project. I decided to tackle the research first. So I went online to look up some references. Soon I was on the sites not quite relevant to...
Sep 27, 2018
On his trip to London, Comcast’s CEO Brian Roberts took a cab to his hotel. On the way, the chatty cab driver persuaded him the merits of Sky – the British broadcaster with rights to broadcast popular sports like Football and Cricket. Comcast is giant of a...
Sep 6, 2018
Coca-Cola and Pepsi’s core market of sugary drinks has been shrinking for years. But the coffee market is expanding. Coke boss James Quincey had been looking into this market for a while, and Costa in particular. In May, Costa chief executive Alison Brittain was...
Sep 5, 2018
Amazon’s juggernaut keeps scaling new heights. It reached $1tr valuation recently. Amazon’s core business is warehousing and logistics, employing 600,000 people. The median annual salary its employees receive is $28,000. At Facebook, that figure is...
Aug 31, 2018
When President Trump picked the phone to speak to his Mexican counterpart, the agenda was to revamp the trade terms. The terms were probably already agreed, this was an act for the live TV. Since the car industry was most anxious about the US trade relations with...
Aug 29, 2018
When a company is relying too much on a core product or service, negative impact on its value is not a matter of “if”, it’s the matter of “when”. Tencent is massive in online gaming. With revenues of $11 billion and 47% gross profits, it is one of the world’s largest...
