Tag: ceo

  • Blueface make personal attack, unfounded slurs on former customer

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    Blueface would appear to be losing it. Feargal Brady, Blueface CEO has, out of the blue, decided to start leaving deliberately inaccurate, bizarre and unsubstantiated accusations against me in comments on a post on this blog. Some of these allegations are more personal than factual. Challenged to back them up he has repeatedly demurred. Long…

  • Is Facebook's Search function useless?

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    I met the CEO of Telligent Systems, Rob Howard in Barcelona. Telligent are the company who make Community Server amongst other things. Rob and I had a great chat and decided to hook up on Facebook. It turned out to be a lot easier to meet in person then in Facebook! I typed Rob Howard…

  • Symantec CEO profits while company burns!

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    Good buddy Dennis Howlett has uncovered, through some clever financial detective work (Dennis is a former accountant), some very dodgy dealings. It seems that the CEO of Symantec, John Thompson, made $1.5m profit on the sale of Symantec shares very shortly before the announcement to the market of losses by Symantec (and the inevitable share…

  • World champion blogger?

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    I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…

  • Arguments against business blogging?

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    A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…