Archive for March 2010
Talk About a Real Company Town
Topeka, Kansas Mayor Bill Bunten yesterday signed a proclamation temporarily changing the city’s name to “Google, Kansas – the capital city of fiber optics”. Residents will have to put up with that mouthful until the end of March as Topeka tries to get Google’s attention wrt their broadband experiment.
No word on whether residents will be required to name their offspring born in March after the Web search giant.
Link via TechCrunch.
Mr. Gimbel Takes Mr. Macy To Court
Last August Mr. Macy (Eric Schmidt of Google) and Mr. Gimbel (Apple’s Steve Jobs) had to part ways. It was ostensibly for antitrust reasons — the 2 competing companies had common board members, including Schmidt himself. Today we found out another reason: Apple has filed suit against mobile handset maker HTC (JC Penny?), who just happens to make many of the Android-based phones that Google’s so fond of.
I’m not thinking Macy’s is gonna want to send customers to Gimbels the way they did before.
