This is a very short blurb, here's the whole thing: Blockbuster (BBI) on Wednesday said it expects to have 10,000 DVD rental kiosks in operation by the end of 2010 following the acquisition by partner NCR (NCR) of TNR Entertainment, the second-largest player in the business. TNR operates about 2,200 kiosks in supermarkets under the MovieCube and The New Release brands.
As Reuters noted today, the leader in the sector is Redbox, a unit of Coinstar (CSTR), which has more than 12,000 locations.
It doesn't mention the financial issues I wrote about earlier.
Expect to see the automation of every job that can be automated. Most of these jobs will be the jobs that have no barrier to entry. That's scary. Competition for a first job is going to become fierce and the 'free rider' problem is going to become even more pronounced than it already is.
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
A great example of why timelines and projections are always off...
Japan, (arguably) the world's leaders in robotics, is getting hit by our financial melt down harder than we are.
FTA: In his "Daily Notes on the Global Economy," Carl B. Weinberg of High Frequency Economics notes Japan's drop in exports last month -- down 45.7 percent from the previous January.
How will this impact the projections of singulatarians and robotopians? Well, the news isn't great. Its bad enough Bush did everything he could to delay the benefits of stem cell research, now economic failures on his watch are going to delay everything else as well.
FTA: In his "Daily Notes on the Global Economy," Carl B. Weinberg of High Frequency Economics notes Japan's drop in exports last month -- down 45.7 percent from the previous January.
How will this impact the projections of singulatarians and robotopians? Well, the news isn't great. Its bad enough Bush did everything he could to delay the benefits of stem cell research, now economic failures on his watch are going to delay everything else as well.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Who said I was a pessimist?
"In all of 2008, 2.6 million people lost their jobs, the largest slump in employment since 1945. Economists estimate the actual unemployment rate is 13.5 percent if you include underemployed and discouraged workers, who have stopped looking for a job."- From DemocracyNow.org
"Nearly as troubling, hundreds of thousands more people sought full-time work in December but could not get more than part-time jobs." - NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/economy/10jobs.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink)
In other news, we'll all probably have a lot more time to write for The Daily Otaku! The glass is half-full!
"Nearly as troubling, hundreds of thousands more people sought full-time work in December but could not get more than part-time jobs." - NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/economy/10jobs.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink)
In other news, we'll all probably have a lot more time to write for The Daily Otaku! The glass is half-full!
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