Author: Jack Lail

  • Yahoo turns 10!

    Yahoo is a decade old tomorrow, March 2. Hard to believe, revenues of $3.57 billion, net income of $834 million, a market cap of $44.41 billion. … Hey, maybe there is real money in this Internet thing. In the early years, it was the site with the funny name where you found stuff. It survived…

  • Will Sudduth (2/27/1925-2/23/2005)

    I went to my Uncle Will’s funeral Saturday in Hickory, N.C.(William Sudduth, 2/25/1995 – 2/23/2005, a native of Coila, Miss., who lived nearly all his adult life on Snow Creek Road in Hickory in a house I spent many hours in as a child.) The service included his sons, and grandsons and a couple nephews…

  • Stopping the Presses

    The Internet has changed the economics of the publishing industry in a way commercial television never did. The price of news and information has irrevocably been pushed way down the supply/demand curve. The Web has also destroyed the functional monopoly of the local daily newspaper with the very high barriers to technical entry. Anyone can…