market-share on S Anand

Shrink a market

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

For every dollar of revenue Microsoft made, it took away six dollars of revenue from their competitors. Every dollar of Microsoft’s gain caused an asymmetrical amount of pain in the marketplace. They made money by shrinking the market.

Business continuity planning

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The Economist on Business Continuity Planning.

The effect on Ericsson, a Swedish mobile-phone company, of a fire in a New Mexico chipmaking plant belonging to the Dutch firm Philips, has become a legend. The fire, in March 2000, started by a bolt of lightning, lasted less than 10 minutes, but it caused havoc to the super-clean environment that chipmaking requires. Ericsson, unable to find an alternative source of supply, went on to report a loss of over $2 billion in its mobile-phone division that year, a loss that left it as an also-ran in an industry where it had once been a leader.

Second largest PC and Web base

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

China, which anyway has the largest mobile user base, has now beaten Japan to the second largest PC and Web base in the world. Wonder how they do it.

Move away from IE

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:00:00 +0000

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.

Browser stats

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:00:00 +0000

The latest browser stats say that 69% of the world uses, Internet Explorer, while only 27% use Netscape. BrowserWatch says 57%-26%. Netscape 6 might do something about it, given that Microsoft’s split.