Ridiculous Griffin

Scary News for Small Businesses in NY

The reason why small businesses in NY can do better than other small business might be because they are not many Wal-Mart in New York. Wal-Mart tried to open store in New York already but they have failed.

Now it is back, and mounting an aggressive campaign to crack the country’s largest urban market. Wal-Mart is looking at properties in each of the five boroughs and has hired Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s former campaign manager, Bradley Tusk, to help coordinate its lobbying efforts.

They are desperate to open stores in Queens and Staten Island and since people are crowded in New York, they are going to make hell of a money if they success in this campaign. However, if they open, many sole proprietor will suffer and end up closing their store, because they cannot compete with Wal-Mart's low price.

What are American Soldiers suppose to do?

America soldiers are still fighting hard for their own country, they are doing their best to follow their orders, but it is not easy for them to follow it, when they do not really know the enemy. And because they do not know the enemy, they cannot just open fire at anyone because they might be civilian.

Six American soldiers were killed and more than a dozen American and Afghan troops were wounded on Sunday morning when a van packed with explosives was detonated at a new jointly operated outpost in southern Afghanistan.

If they go soft on the Afghanistan, more America soldiers are going to die. I am not saying they should just shoot at every Afghanistan they see, but they have to come up with some kind of plans to identify their identity, or some sort of things.

Dell is about to make a big move

Dell, the third largest computer company, is in talks to buy Compellent Technologies, which is a data storage company, after losing bidding war over 3Par to HP. 

The company announced today that it’s in talks to acquire Compellent for $27.50 a share in cash, valuing the business at about $876 million. The companies declined to comment further, saying no agreement has been reached.

 Compellent's stocks are going to go up by high if they agree to this deal, and I think it is going to happen, soon or later. It would be wise to buy Dell or Compellent right now, before Dell buy them.

What is this E-books going to do?

Barnes and Nobles, ordinary book store came up with the E-book with the touchable and color screen for the E-book users.

Well, it’s time for some progress. Barnes & Noble’s new Nook Color ($250) is the first big-name e-book reader with a color touch screen. It has confusing aspects, but it’s light-years better than last year’s slow, kludgy black-and-white Nook. (The company says the new Nook was designed by a new team, based in Silicon Valley and composed largely of former Palm employees.)

It does look handsome, but I do not think they are going to sell a lot of product because why would people buy that when there are Ipad and Galaxy Tap. Compare to them, it has no special feature, and Ipad and Galaxy Tap has all the features that Nook Color has, but more.