Microsoft-Yahoo

Jul 17, 2008 03:33PM | by Alvin Lin in Business Community Entertainment

For those who haven’t been following the business news, Microsoft made a bid to acquire Yahoo recently (rejected), and since then Microsoft has been making moves to deliberately assassinate Yahoo’s stock price, while also trying to force a hostile takeover over one of the Internet’s first big-time companies and websites.  At the same time, Jerry Yang (Yahoo co-founder) re-took the reigns of Yahoo as CEO and has been re-positioning the company’s business while also protecting Yahoo from a hostile take-over.  The press, depending on what you’ve read, has been saying otherwise.

The entire situation can be found here in a NY Times article with Jerry Yang.

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Justin Lin: ‘It’s all about marketing and distribution’

May 26, 2008 06:44AM | by Alvin Lin in Business Culture Entertainment

“That’s why Lin’s bottom line with his self-financed latest pic, the Bruce Lee mockumentary Finishing the Game, is control of marketing and distribution. Or at least significant input. He wants to learn how it’s done; figure out how to build a network for exhibition and distribution of Asian American indie film on his own, if necessary. “That’s the next step,” he says. “It’s all about distribution and exhibition and marketing--figuring out how to do that right. That’s what the growth of the Asian American cinema is going to hinge on. I’m not worried about the talent...I’m not even worried about the money. It’s about getting people to watch these films, and proving there’s an audience.”

http://instantyang.blogspot.com/

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Asian Female Execs Held Back Due to Stereotypes?

Apr 17, 2008 03:58PM | by Alvin Lin in Business Community

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(WOMENSENEWS)--While U.S. corporations are creating and touting their diversity programs, professional women of Asian descent say their needs in the workplace are often overlooked and that these initiatives do not always include them as much as other women of color.

The results, Asian women say, is that they are often locked out of top jobs in the workplace. Compared to other minority groups, Asian women make up a particularly minuscule portion of Fortune 500 corporate officers.

To combat this, female executives of Asian origin who have moved into high ranks within their companies say that it is up to them to shatter the stereotypes of being mild-mannered and submissive and promote themselves vigorously within the corporate setting.

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Hollywood agent: “You guys buy, dress, think…like White people.  There’s no demand for Asians”

Apr 3, 2008 07:01AM | by Alvin Lin in Business Community Culture Entertainment Fashion People

“The best advice I ever got was from a Jewish American agent, and he said, “Look Sung, I don’t care what color you are. If you can make me money, you could be blue. It doesn’t matter. You don’t have to speak one word of English. If you can make money for us, you’re going to be put into movies.” And a lot of people point fingers at the actors and say how could you take this role, but Asian Americans need to step back and take a look at themselves. Besides the educated filmgoer, the general public doesn’t care about Asian Americans. They’re not going to go out to buy a ticket because there are Asian American actors or an Asian American director.

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Xenophobic Congressman, and Bill Gates’ Response: ‘Blocking Immigration Forces Outsourcing’

Mar 25, 2008 07:00AM | by Alvin Lin in Business

This is what Gringey said:

“Wariness over bringing in foreign talent reflects a number of concerns. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) expressed unease that “Asian and Indian names” increasingly dominate newspaper lists of top SAT scores in his Marietta district, and asked Gates whether “youngsters who look like me"- the congressman is white - might find the influx of skilled foreign workers to be a deterrent in pursuing careers in technology and engineering.”

This is Bill Gates’ response, saying that trying to slow immigration screws America and forces outsourcing directly to those countries. This congressman needs to be blasted for the xenophobic, racist thinking that people with Asian last names aren’t American.

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