January 28, 2004

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

From the Business 2.0 website comes their fourth annual list of the 100 dumbest moves in Business: Some samples: bq. In September, retail chain Urban Outfitters begins peddling Ghettopoly, a Monopoly knockoff. The top hat, shoe, and car are replaced with a machine gun, marijuana leaf, basketball, and rock of crack cocaine. Reacting to protests, Urban Outfitters pulls the game from its stores. And another: bq. After years of bombarding Web surfers with annoying pop-up ads, wireless camera maker X10 files for bankruptcy in October, listing debts of more than $10 million. Among the parties stiffed: AOL, Google, Yahoo, and AdvertisementBanners.com, which won $4 million in a lawsuit against X10 shortly before the bankruptcy filing. Some good ones there... Posted by DaveH at January 28, 2004 1:38 PM