Gender, Porn and Business

(2/28/2014) A female students at Duke University was exposed by a Fraternity about her porn side-job. This news now spread through the campus and caused some troubles to the students. If she can be accepted as a Duke student, why do we care about her side-job that provides some services to the society?

Let us say Hefner (Playboy's publisher) wants to attend the MBA to improve his adult business. Would the business school accept his application?

In-Game Purchase, Are You the Generous 0.15%?

(2/28/2013) Most of mobile games on Apple's iOS and Android are free. To compensate the game development cost, the gaming companies offer in-game purchases to allow players to pass faster, get tips to receive 'treasures', or get 'one more chance' to defeat the enemy. But, how many of them are paying? Not many, only 0.15% of gamer ever pay for in-game purchase but this part counts around 50% of revenue for those game developers. If you are a game developer, how can you design your game to be business sustainable?

Comcast-Time Warner Merge

(2/21/2014) One figure, it may make you think twice about Comcast-Time Warner merger deal. This is a news report from CNN about how this merger may impact consumers. 

I searched 'Comcast' on NBCNews.com (Comcast is NBC's parent company) today (several days after the merge deal surfaced), and this is what you get: nbcnews only has pure factual news reports about this merger, there is no any critical analysis about its impacts to many viewers and internet users. Should the DOJ approve this merger?

Let us see how other news website's turn out. All searches are based on last 7 days (2/14-2/21) and made on 2/21/2014.

Huffington Post (2/21/2014)

New York Times (2/21/2014)

Fox News, (2/21/2014)

CNN.com (2/21/2014)