Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

A plan provider once asked me if I had written a comprehensive article on why trustee-directed 401(k) plans are superior to participant-directed plans. Although I believe in this argument, I haven’t ...

The Betamax machine launched the video-store era, even though the recording format was quickly overwhelmed by rival JVC's VHS format. (Oregonian) Sony's "time-shift machine" was revolutionary. For the ...

Back in 1975, Sony introduced Betamax, an analogue video format meant to serve as an alternative viewing experience to JVC’s video home system (VHS). Since that day, Sony has waged battle with JVC to ...

Competing cryptocurrencies have been in the news lately. This VICE Motherboard roundup is a good list of some of bitcoin’s most promising challengers. But it makes a comparison which reveals a view ...

Yesterday, Sony announced that it would cease manufacturing Betamax tapes and close the last remaining factories in March 2016. The news came as a shock to the technology world, mostly because ...

In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...

Replay: The VHS vs Betamax war is the oldest business anecdote in the book. Well, maybe not the oldest, because it happened in the seventies. Here's what really went on. Whenever a new product comes ...

I’m a fan of both Amazon and Walmart. I’m a customer of both and I enjoy studying both companies, gleaming insights to best practices from two of the largest and most successful companies ever. I ...

A plan provider once asked me if I had written a full-blown article on why trustee directed 401(k) plans are better than participant-directed plans. I haven’t even if I believed in it (which I do), ...