Month: September 2015

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”

—John Vansant Wanamaker (1838 – 1922)

“Nobody knows the exact number,” Hoffman says, “but probably about 50 percent of what you’re spending online is being stolen from you.”

—Bob Hoffman in 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/

We are definitely in the last phase of capitalism.

We are definitely in the last phase of capitalism.

Originally shared by Peter da Silva

“Even an SOE [State-owned Enterprise] that exists to fulfil a public function neglected by the market or which is a natural monopoly would nevertheless be forced to act ‘on the basis of commercial considerations’,” said WikiLeaks in a press release introducing the leak. “Foreign companies would be given standing to sue SOEs in domestic courts for perceived departures from the strictures of the TPP, and countries could even be sued by other TPP countries, or by private companies from those countries.”

http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2015/07/30/wikileaks-reveals-cbc-and-canada-post-may-be-sold-under-tpp-agreement/