The May Report: 2/26/2011: It is 2:55am Saturday morning. TMR never sleeps and Mike Rhodes finally speaks! Sync Tech Center is merely changing address- corrections to Flyover Geeks article and an Interview with Mike Rhodes sets the record straight; The story is being given to TMR first — before social media, before The Sync newsletter,…
Archive for February, 2011
The May Report: 2/25/2011: Bulletin: The sun has set on SYNC-ing ship: Rhodes’ dream goes down the drain. Hats off to cub reporter Ed for breaking news that The Syncubator is to close marchFIRST — a fateful day! And what becomes of the $5MM fund, whatever fund there was? Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com…
The May Report: 2/20/2011: After Stroger removed her gall bladder and sent her home, Melanie is still not OK and is in Rush Pres. St. Lukes tonight for more surgery Monday; Alex Zoghlin explains the Google mix-up; Mike Rhodes has canceled all but one Sip@TheSync per month; The ordeal of Friday and more… Editor and…
The May Report: 2/17/2011: Melanie admitted to Stroger Cook County hospital on an emergency basis and faces surgery this morning for an enlarged and infected gall bladder with many stones; George Deeb, founder of iExplore, tells the story of ups and downs and how the company was re-born after 9/11 with nine volunteers and no…
The May Report: 2/16/2011: Kris Hammond and sidekicks Larry Birnbaum, Owen Youngman, and Rich Gordon — sorry about having reversed that name in the header — have gotten a $4.2MM grant from the Knight Foundation to help local journalists do their jobs more effectively; Meanwhile Hammond’s $700K grant to come up with jokes is ridiculed…
The May Report: 2/14/2011: Will Kris Hammond massacre Valerie Pajak at the MIT-EF debate Tuesday night? — remember what today is the anniversary of; Jeopardy is much harder for Watson than chess; Why is Frank Gruber in hiding over his failure to be selected for a panel at #SXSW?; For starters, three who were “pushed…
The May Report: 2/11/2011: After spending $100K on marketing, months of planning and an inability to sign HTC as the lead sponsor, Kolenmesse, a German-based event planning company, backs out on sponsoring MobileAppEx trade show in Chicago; Interesting tidbit about UIC’s OTM: Nancy Sullivan hired Kathy Liu who used to be at the ITA and…
The May Report: 2/10/2011: Come on, Shefsky & Froelich, man up! The slimeballs (that is strictly my opinion and does not constitute defamation) at Affluence.org ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Details on unpaid and stiffed consultant Reyne Haines and plenty more to come…. Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. Assistant editor: Melanie Adcock, iPHONE:…
The May Report: 2/9/2011: Another consultant hired by Affluence.org comes forward to say that he too was not paid a dime for months of work; The UIC story looks like it may end up being a big one but I can’t say much right now; ADT’s UNCD bearings selected by Merck-Millipore; Tarkus Murphy, Bill Price,…