WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30
Steel Eye for the CEO Guy

By: Jeff Heilman
January 2008

That's Palo Alto, CA-based SteelEye Technology, Inc., a provider of data and application solutions for disaster data recovery and business continuity—the latter a topic soon to be covered by Corporate Leader magazine.

Previewing the 2007 top-level findings of their annual Business Continuity Index, SteelEye found that CEOs and other C-level execs are starting to take business continuity seriously--and the degree to which their businesses depend on technology. IT departments rejoice--you are emerging as a top CEO priority.

And while we are on the West Coast, let's swing by Silicon Alley Insider's blog for more tech biz.

Why does Wall Street hate Google? Principally, says Henry Blodget--that's Blodget 2.0, back on terra firma after his dot.com infamy as a Merrill analyst--because Google “is actually serious about spending tens of billions of dollars to become a wireless company.” Why make investors wait on an uncertain long-term play, complains Street, but Blodget says go for it--while cautioning Google to cool it on ideas like becoming a renewable energy company.

The IAC-Liberty Media "cage match" grows uglier by the minute, as foes Barry Diller and John Malone get “preposterous” and “go off the deep end” in their board control battle.

And have big media and advertisers figured out the Web yet? Still working on it, but here’s former AOL chief Jonathan Miller on when brand advertisers will finally follow viewers onto the Web: "Wait until there is a bona fide hit online; as big as a hit TV show or movie. Once that happens the floodgates will completely open for the industry."

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