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Ziff Davis Teeters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-very-big-club dept.

Longtime Reader writes: "It is a short article with links all over the place, but Linux and Main is running a story that says Ziff Davis might file for bankruptcy this week. The company plans to stay in business by expanding its focus on computer games, the story says." To get you started, reader idiotnot contributes this link to coverage in the NYT.

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  1. You can't be serious!?!? by Ruger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For the love of god, hire some more women.

    Why? The gaming population is approx. 99.44% male. The fact is that that PC gaming (heck all gaming) is predominately an XY passtime ...why do people feel the need to have a gender balance (which is actaully an imbalance in many cases) in places where none exist?

    No booth babe pictures.

    You can't be serious. Have you ever been to a Car or Boat show? The majority of the people that attend these events are guys! Guys hot women! Marketers want to draw attention to their male oriented products! Simple math: A (XY product) + B (what attacts guys) = C (booth babes).

    They only time an industry, institution or organization needs to hear the call "You need to hire, recruit, attract more women" is when they do not accurately reflect their audience/populous. It don't see that as an issue here.

  2. The media are all corporate stuts. ('Ho's make $) by crovira · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The rags are as contentless as an unopened box of Kotexs.

    These magazines are nothing but ads while revenue per page is plummeting.

    I think that we should put the blame where it lies and exile a few Spammers to Antartica without tents or heaters.

    And I notice that if me and thee have to declare bankruptcy (after having been "let go," down-sized or otherwise left in a bleeding heap of tortured flesh, laser spot-lit by dimming fibre, on the shoulder of the information super-highway (hadn't heard that old saw in a while I bet :-), we can go suck broken wind.

    But corporations are still taking their really big debt problems to Chapter 11 and sticking their suppliers and workers with the bill.
    More candidates for Antartic exile.

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