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View ArticleOnly Two in Five Americans Read a Newspaper
Newspapers around the country are struggling. 2009 saw a few newspapers change their business model to an online focus or shut down completely. 2010 will most likely see the same struggle and, perhaps,...
View Article"New Media" Series on Public Television
"The Future of News" brings together some of the brightest minds in new and traditional media. The new 10-part television series produced by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., debuts in Janury 2010 on...
View ArticleI Received an Email From Wilma Jordan This Morning
After the dot-com crash and the planes hit the buildings, everything stopped, of course. The last phone call I received on this subject involved the possibility of us buying one of their recent...
View ArticleHow Passionate and Excited Are You?
During another staff meeting, as I told the story of the two frogs that fell into the milk bucket (the lazy one drowned in minutes but the hard-working frog created a layer of cream to climb on and...
View ArticleChinese Corruption Crackdown Spreads
With the news that Chinese graft-busters have targeted officials in the Guangdong city of Maoming in their on-going anti-corruption drive, foreign businesses operating in China need to reassess their...
View ArticleUlitzer Blogger Meets President of Philippines
Today, I received an email from Inday Vinas, one of our Ulitzer authors, and her photo meeting and shaking hands with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. She writes,...
View ArticleUlitzer Expands Its Holocaust Research Project Syndication
Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new-media" platform in the world, announced today that the news syndication for Holocaust Research Project topic on Ulitzer has been expanded. HEART on Ulitzer was...
View ArticleSYS-CON Projects All-Time High Revenue
That was our 2010 projection two months ago. Today, as of January 28, 2010, we booked more revenue for 2010 than the entire fiscal year 2009 actuals, including unearned income with record sponsorship...
View ArticleHow to Commit Suicide with Email Marketing
Ulitzer has several topic sites on the subject of "email marketing" including Content Marketing Journal, Internet Marketing Journal, Marketing & Sales on Ulitzer, Marketing Automation, and Sales...
View ArticleBarbara Corcoran's Real Estate Morality Play
I remember seeing this woman, Barbara Corcoran, on TV walking inside a house with a fortune teller, spreading fumes as the fortune teller whispered some sort of prayer so that the house would sell real...
View ArticleFreedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press -A Case Study
We are observing three groups of new media participants on blog portals, Twitter and Facebook as we enter a new decade for online media. 1) Old school journalists with their traditional values - I...
View ArticleIs This The Beginning of the End For Adobe?
I don't know what the outcome of Steve Jobs / Adobe fued over Flash Player will be, but in 10 years we will remember Adobe as the software company who "declared death" against SYS-CON Media. Similarly,...
View ArticleEscaping from the Blizzard of 2010 to Cat Cay Paradise
I left SYS-CON's offices in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, right on time just before the snow storm closed the airports. These live pictures below show East Saddle River Road through my iPhone on my way...
View ArticleSAP CEO Apotheker Unexpectedly Quits
SAP AG announced late Sunday that the SAP Supervisory Board has reached a mutual agreement with CEO Leo Apotheker not to extend his contract as a member of the SAP Executive Board. The company press...
View ArticlePrime Minister Ingraham Arrives in Cat Cay
The Right Honorable Hubert Alexander Ingraham, Prime Minister of The Bahamas arrived in Cat Cay on Saturday, February 13, 2010 to begin the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Cat Cay. Prime Minister is...
View ArticleOn2 Stockholders Approve Merger with Google
On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced that its stockholders approved the merger of On2 with a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc. at its Reconvened Special Meeting held earlier today. On2...
View ArticleGoAdv Acquires Italy's Top Blog Network Blogosfere
GoAdv, one of Europe's fastest growing digital media companies (http://www.goadv.com), has acquired Italy's top blog network as part of its worldwide growth strategy. Blogosfere, launched in 2005, now...
View ArticleBeautiful Weather This Weekend in South Florida and the Bahamas
We had beautiful weather this weekend in South Florida and the Bahamas. I spent all day Saturday and Sunday doing outdoor activities. I played 9 holes with my friend Roger Strukhoff before he left for...
View ArticleDavid Skok Authors Startup and VC Blog on Ulitzer
When I saw David Skok's name on recent Ulitzer authors page I was pleasantly surprised. David is one of the key figures in the technology space for the past two decades, including his venture capital...
View ArticleIn Memory of Turhan Selçuk
The last time I saw Turhan Selçuk (88) was at a dinner at his brother İlhan Selçuk's house in 1982 that I attended with my boss Doğan Hızlan. Turhan Ağabey came to dinner with his wife Füruzan and...
View ArticleWho Am I Following at My Twitter Page @FuatKircaali?
Well, online media businesses should beware. Media moved on to "new media" and TechTarget's media technology is last century. Look at our Cloud Expo home page! The content on this page is...
View ArticleBobby Moynihan: "New Media" Correspondent
I was on the road driving Saturday and Sunday. We celebrated Lauren's 13th birthday late last night. Today was a very busy work day. Before I went to bed I browsed through "60 Minutes" and "Saturday...
View ArticleSYS-CON Announces "iPad Summit" Colocated with "Cloud Expo" in Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that the first International "iPad Summit" (www.ipadsummit.net), will take place November 1, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California....
View ArticleThe Secret Behind The Incredible Growth of Cloud Expo
I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a...
View ArticleCloud Expo Istanbul Summit
According to a recent study from IDC the Turkish enterprise application software, or EAS, market has slowed significantly as a result of the global economic crisis. The EAS market grew 2.6 percent...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken...
View ArticleWhy Didn’t I Start Salesforce.com?
Between 1991 and 1994 I worked for the French company Rhône-Poulenc in its U.S. headquarters in Cranbury, New Jersey. Rhône-Poulenc is the biggest French company in the world and is owned by the French...
View ArticleMark Hurd and Steve Mills
I was 25-26 years old when I worked at IBM. Steve was not much older. IBM, like many companies, plots a career path for every new employee it hires. It moves them from job to job grooming them from...
View ArticleTwitter Down, Arab Revolution on Hold
Newsfuzion.com posted at 10:00 Eastern time "Twitter is back up and functioning normally. Let's hope it stays that way." Other reports say access is intermittent. Breaking News from Libya and other...
View ArticleOpen Letter from Sofia to First Lady of Syria Asma al-Assad
The recent highly publicized piece in Vogue magazine describes you as a humanitarian with a passion for children's issues, among other things. Like you and Mr. President Bashar al-Assad, loving parents...
View ArticleUS Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind in Syria
Yesterday (Sunday) AP reported that "State Dept. issued travel warning on Syria" and this morning (Monday) Reuters filed a follow-up report that "US offers free flights out for employees in Syria." As...
View ArticleSofia's Abduction to Syria: Interview with Diane Macedo of Fox News
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and...
View ArticleA Bedtime Story for Sofia Who Remains Abducted in Syria
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and...
View ArticleUncle Who Kidnapped Sofia to Syria Still a Practicing MD in Chicago
More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an...
View ArticleMy Abducted Two-Year-Old American Guest Worker Daughter in Syria
Since her abduction by her mother last summer, my two-year-old US citizen daughter, who is in ailing health, remains in her abducted country of Syria under the immigration status of "Palestinian...
View ArticleState Department Photos of My Abducted Daughter Sofia in Syria
Wednesday morning I received new photographs of Sofia from the State Department in Washington, DC. Sofia remains in Syria since being abducted in July 2010. The day after my last tweet regarding the...
View ArticleMy Two-Year-Old Daughter Sofia Facing Life-Long Disability in Syria
The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department...
View ArticleFeras Bankosly, Uncle Who Kidnapped Sofia to Syria, Is MD in Chicago
More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an...
View ArticleSofia Facing Bloodiest Easter Abducted in Syria
Uncle Feras Bankosly MD's "physician license" in the United States should be revoked immediately due to his abduction of Sofia from her home in March, 2010, as he has endangered Sofia's life by keeping...
View ArticleUS Embassy Staff Out Of Syria, Leaving My Two Year-Old Daughter Behind!
The US State Department on Monday said that it has ordered some non-essential US embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria because of the "uncertainty and volatility" in...
View ArticleNext for My American Baby in Syria: A Refugee Camp in Turkey
The US State Department on Monday said that it has ordered some non-essential US embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria because of the "uncertainty and volatility" in...
View ArticleSyria's First Lady Gets My @SyrianPresident Parody Account Suspended
According to the story published by The Guardian, Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails revealed. A senior aide to Asma...
View ArticleArt Collectors Beginning to Hone in on 19th Century Oriental Rugs
Jan David Winitz, president/founder of Claremont Rug Company, today said that certain types of antique Oriental rugs are experiencing a significant upsurge in attention among collectors and investors....
View ArticleNW Rugs Offers a Handpicked Selection of Genuine Antique Rugs from Asia
The popularity of handmade Persian and Oriental rugs is a direct result of their versatility as decor items, as well as the immense skill and craftsmanship it takes to create them. Many homeowners who...
View ArticleSo You Want to Buy a Persian Rug
Last September I made the mistake of trusting a local business in Florida and buying three Persian oriental rugs from Nader Amini, the owner of Amini Rug Gallery here in Fort Lauderdale. Mr. Amini came...
View ArticleSo You Want to Hire a Realtor in Istanbul
When I turned 50 I decided to live in Istanbul as I had been away from home for the past 30 years. After my experience (my luck) with realtors, architects and a landlord straight from a horror movie, I...
View ArticleAvoid Amini Rug Gallery and Nader Amini If You Are Shopping For a Persian Rug
My lengthy text messages with Nader Amini, the owner of Amini Rug Gallery on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who has a long list of Better Business Bureau complaint cases, lawsuits, and...
View ArticleAn Email From a Former Colleague 12 Years Later
"It's been many years. But whenever Sept 11 occurs, I remember where I was that day -- in the SYS-CON offices, watching the disasters on the computer monitors. And I always think about your reaction to...
View ArticleTwo Years Later, Florida Court Has Yet to Rule to Evict People from Sofia's...
Six years have passed since the global news coverage of Sofia's abduction to Syria and she has now been waiting for more than two years for the Broward County Court's decision in Florida to evict the...
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