Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak (/ ˈ k oʊ d æ k /), is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York , and is incorporated in New Jersey . [ 2 ]
The more obvious, public reason for Kodak's failure was the inability to adapt to technological change in the industry -- that is, embracing digital imaging trends.
The irony is, these so-called failures were also successes, anticipating smartphones and other technologies we now take for granted. ... Kodak stopped making the cameras in 1988, although it ...
The Icarus paradox is a neologism coined by Danny Miller in his 1990 book by the same name. [1] The term refers to the phenomenon of businesses failing abruptly after a period of apparent success, where this failure is brought about by the very elements that led to their initial success.
Eastman Kodak (NYS: EK) carries $293 million of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road.
Changing Focus: Kodak and the Battle to Save a Great American Company is a book about the corporate history and future of the Kodak corporation. In particular, it discusses Kodak's efforts to maintain and diversity its photography businesses in the face of challenges from digital photography, and the mixed results of these efforts.
After falling almost 80% so far in 2011, you'd think all the worst-case scenarios had already been priced into Eastman Kodak (NYS: EK) shares. Whatever the third-quarter report might say, shares ...
The Kodak DC20 was an early digital camera first released by Kodak in 3 June 1996, in Australia at price of AU$560. It had a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$299 when most other digital cameras at the time cost well over $1000, and was the first product sold by Kodak through its website. [2]