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BlizzCon Ticket Fiasco Update

Sunday, August 17, 2008

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Earlier this week, we covered the quick sell out of BlizzCon tickets as well as the problems that arose from the massive load on the servers.  On Wednesday, the president of Blizzard, Mike Morhalme wrote an apology and presented an opportunity for those who were unable to purchase tickets due to the Blizzard Store problems. “Soon, [...]

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Long Tail Theory Under Fire, Not Profitable After All

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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For the business folks in the ground, a recent Harvard study has come out that is declaring the much-referenced Long Tail Theory is infact false, and in most markets the “long tail” is not profitable after all or has very little room to profit from, where as attacking the “big hits” are much more profitable [...]

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CompUSA is Ressurected and Awesome

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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One of Giz’s readers report that Tiger Direct, after purchasing the CompUSA chain, has re-energized it and apparently stuffed it full of awesome before relaunching it: It’s a much better store than it used to be, full of components, motherboards, and lots of actually _helpful_ people who know computers. That’s pretty awesome… this is like old-school CompUSA, [...]

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