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About Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News, as well as a long-time media, technology and business journalist.
He experimented with online news delivery a quarter century ago, with a text-only online service called StarText at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.Disclosure
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has interests in two Web startups, which he cannot disclose until formally launched. They do not involve enterprise computing. He holds interests in technology companies only through mutual funds in which he has no say in their selection of investments. He has worked for Reed Elsevier PLC, Ziff Davis Media and the A.H. Belo Corporation.
Biography
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News, as well as a long-time media, technology and business journalist.
He experimented with online news delivery a quarter century ago, with a text-only online service called StarText at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.-
Programming note: Welcome Andrew Nusca to our blog
As you may have noticed we've had a bit of a graphic swap at the top of the blog. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has been swapped for Andrew Nusca. Tom will continue on Between the Lines as a guest...
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Don't Forget to Turn Out the Lights, Tony
The announcement that Amazon is buying Zappos is so sad. What online retailing needs is more innovators, not fewer. Jeff Bezos of Amazon (recommendation engine and free delivery over $25) and...
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Shopping together, online: Into a closet vs. real-time
So, Zappos has begun to test its "My Zappos"Â social shopping service, first alluded to here in June. You can put shoes, clothes and accessories into your personal closet, online. You can blog...
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On Wall Street, the time value of money has been redefined. It does not include you
An electric signal takes a nanosecond to travel a foot, essentially. These days, that distance matters. At least on Wall Street. If you want to discover prices on stocks first – and act on...
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Catch Yourself If You Can: A Con Artist Guide To Forging Checks
Frank Abagnale has spent 35 years helping the FBI fight forgery, embezzlement and identity theft. This is a guy who spent five years in prison after starting out in adulthood as a con artist. Now,...
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Want To See (And Talk About) What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'
Zappos, the online retailer of shoes and clothing, is about to become a social networking site, borrowing aspects of Twitter and Facebook and applying them to their customers’ particular...
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The Real Case in Social Media: Zappos CEO Not All Atwitter About Twitter
When reporting first began on ZDNet’s look at Zappos’ use of social media to build its online retailing business, its CEO, Tony Hsieh, had just crossed 600,000 followers on Twitter. This...
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'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'
Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive (which owns CNet and ZDNet). Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at...
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AP, Meet AC. And, BTW, News is Not Really 'Monetizable,' on the Web.
The Associated Press was created in 1846 as a news cooperative. The idea was to allow member newspapers (and later, radio and TV stations) to combine costs in covering, reporting on and...
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The Cost of the Free Internet
The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a...
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Brick and Click Stores: How Circuit City Could Re-Open Its Doors
Why doesn’t a consumer electronics store work this way, in the age of the Internet? You walk into the digital photography section. On a slanted shelf sit 15 different cameras, each tied to...
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Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years
The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of...
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Tweet This: IAC Might Be Interested in AOL (Says Barry Diller)
Well, maybe the founders of Twitter and the CEO of Yahoo aren’t interested in acquiring AOL. But IAC chairman Barry Diller might be. The Time Warner online service, which is openly for sale,...
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Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?
Ed Whitacre. The quintessential amalgator of companies. He's going to save GM, as its new chairman? Don't get me wrong. He did a pretty amazing job with the hand he was played in...
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Schmidt: Bing Has Not Changed What Google Is Doing
No big surprise here, but the arrival of Bing is not causing Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lose any sleep. When asked by Fox Business Network's Liz Claman if Google was putting any additional...
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Behavioral Data: Valuing Customers. Then Avoiding Them.
There’s little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you’re doing on the Web, all the time. And that there’s a clear (profitable)...
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CircuitCity.com Is Back Online. And, Yes, You Can Return HP, IBM and Toshiba Products. Now.
CircuitCity.com was reborn on May 22, brought to you by the Systemax folks who bought remnants of the CompUSA chain and operate TigerDirect.com. When CircuitCity.com first came back, its return...
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Happy Birthday, Zappos: A Billion-Dollar Business Built on ... Culture?
The number one objective of Zappos -- known mostly for its selling of shoes online (and its free two-way shipping) -- is to establish a great company culture. If you do that, CEO Tony Hsieh...
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Bing vs. Bing: Pitching To Be Its Pitchman?
You had to expect it. The personage who writes the Bing blog and column for Fortune is "moderately outraged" by Microsoft's use of his pen name as the name of its latest search engine. Gil...
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Let's All Do the Wave ...
Ah, yes. Just what we need. And, oh, yes, it's inevitable. An inbox that pulls together every email sent your way. Every instant message sent your way. Every image. Every social network...
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