Today, one needs to be literally living under a rock to have not heard about the Facebook® acquisition of WhatsApp™. Everywhere across the media spectrum heads are being scratched on why Facebook would spend (wait for it……) $19 BILLION dollars in total for a company that most anyone outside of silicon valley never even heard of. (more…)
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Net Neutrality And What It Might Mean To You
It would seem my ideas or the possible implications about the upcoming (hypothetical) changes in the way the web is both used and/or allowed access, to or by service providers is becoming more prescient than I first envisioned.
Today it was announced that the cable giants Comcast™, and Time-Warner™ have plans to merge with Comcast buying the former for around $45 Billion or there about. One might look at such a merger through the same prism as earlier media giants joining, then basing their presumptions on why things will be better in the end for shareholders through “synergies.” Which we know from example after example never seem to materialize. (more…)
There Will Be Crying
A funny thing happened to the financial markets since the new year. Suddenly, a great many unicorns are pulling up lame, and what about the rainbows they were paraded across you might ask? Well, they seem to have been painted with watercolors, for the reign of reality has shown they were far from anything naturally weatherproof. Let alone permanent. (more…)
Casual Friday Or Sensibility Optionable?
If there’s one thing I’ve taken notice of more and more; it’s they way people now dress. I can not believe how some people (a great many I will add) are leaving their homes dressed in attire that can easily be referred to as bed wear, along with absolutely outrageously bold or cartoonist flair. (more…)
The Next Segment Of Luxury: Subscription Everything
If there’s one thing that will always be in fashion, or in vogue it’s this: Someone having something others don’t by one of two means – “in the know” or, they can afford it. Followed with the willingness to flaunt it. (more…)
