Tag Archives: silicon valley

In which our hero continues his tour of the computer industry with observations on, among other things, the art of presenting and the theory and practice of branding. One of the things I learned very early on in this business ...

Moving on from (Silicon Valley) douchenozzles… Now, it’s time for intrepid freelancer George Parker to meet The Prince. His name is Joe Nacchio, he was the CEO of Qwest Communications, and he’s now serving a six year jail term in ...

Two Parkers for the price of one this week (holidays and all that, normal schedule returns w/c August 5). George continues his tour of the wilder personalities of the computer revolution. Last week, I dealt with douchenozzle number one, Nolan ...

George is still in Silicon Valley, among the douchenozzles (with an occasional prince – but not this week). For new readers here’s a brief glossary of Parkerisms. BDAs are Big Dumb Agencies, BDCs are Big Dumb Companies (or Big Dumb ...

In which our hero continues his odyssey among the once-mighty tech companies of Silicon Valley and Houston. Unlike the New York, Mad Man sixties, when agency perks included smoking, drinking and screwing your brains out, during the California seventies, at ...

The world’s big companies, of whom Procter & Gamble is clearly one, have buckets of cash but nothing to spend it on. Or nothing they’re willing to spend it on anyway. P&G CEO Bob McDonald has been under the cosh ...

Publicis Groupe and France Telecom’s Orange have advanced their plans to set up a big new tech and new media venture capital fund by teaming up with Iris Capital Management in a deal with sees PG and FT taking a ...

Put it like that and it doesn’t sound so good does it? But we mustn’t mock, Google has put some flesh on the bones of its ‘Tech City’ for London notion, agreed with the UK Government last year which is ...

Cannes isn’t the be-all and end-all of the creative world (much as it would like to be so) but the pathetic performance of UK creative agencies in 2011 is really quite staggering. From 275 entries in the film category (the ...