Two Gartner analysts have laid out a doomsday scenario in which Microsoft’s Windows operating system is in danger of collapsing under its own weight. They point to Microsoft’s smaller and nimble rivals such as Apple and Linux as more innovative.
They have a point—up to a point. Microsoft has taken on the huge task […]

It used to be when you opened the New York Times to pages 2 and 3 there were a couple of things you could be certain of. There’d be the lead news articles on international events, and there’d be a Tiffany’s ad on the right hand side of page 3. This was a great […]

The newest general purchase payment card scheme in the US–Discover, which was launched by Sears in 1986–has just bought the oldest general purchase payment card scheme in the U.S. (and elsewhere)–Diners Club, which launched the modern card in 1950 in Manhattan.
Diners Club is the poster child for why first-mover advantages sound good in […]