Financial Times Charges Execs $4000 To Get Harassed On A Social Network [Bad Business]

I’ve a passion for Business and keep looking for good articles. Today, I checked if I could find more info by entering ‘financial business’ in Google and found this:

Trying to keep the Poors out of its exclusive social network, the Financial Times is charging 2000 for an annual membership in the “FT Media and Technology Executive Membership Forum.” This includes discounts on FT conferences, where all the real networking is done anyway. Really, can you imagine joining this site and messaging another exec because you don’t have enough pull to e-mail them? I can, and that’s why this is such a terrible idea for anyone with valuable time. The tech and media bus

source: Financial Times Charges Execs $4000 To Get Harassed On A Social Network [Bad Business], Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip

Aargh, not exactly what I was looking for, but a good read nevertheless.

HIStalk Interviews Don Holmquest, MD, JD, PhD, President and CEO, CalRHIO

For the most part, we have been working on trying to get the technology vendors selected and get the kind of endorsements it will take to make the business model w ork. … Anybody that makes use of our network and receives financial benefit will be expected to pay some appropriate share of the cost….

source: HIStalk Interviews Don Holmquest, MD, JD, PhD, President and CEO, CalRHIO, HIStalk

Hmmm, I have too look further into that for my Business blog.

McCain’s ‘economic guru’ and the market meltdown

A regulatory structure set up for banks in the 1930s needed to change because the nature of business had changed, … In the past year, UBS has written down more then $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 j obs….

source: McCain’s ‘economic guru’ and the market meltdown, Crooks and Liars

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