For the most part, however, Condé executives acknowledge only mild concern about such things as the Internet, shifts in the ad landscape and succession planning.
He pointed out to me that, after the Internet shifts its attention elsewhere — so, very soon — Mohamed will still have to attend high school and live in Irving.
Since 2004, companies have more than doubled the amount they spend on ads on the Internet, shifting that money away from more traditional outlets like television, radio and print publications.
Many wonder whether Yahoo will be able to maintain this strategy as the focus of the Internet shifts from pages of text to audio and video delivered over high-speed connections.
"But what they didn't understand is how the Internet shifts power to the customer.
Today, with the internet, shifts that once took decades to occur are happening within months and years.
Mobile has changed the way we use the Internet, shifting from what was originally a desktop phenomenon to devices we carry with us all time.
LiveRail had already learned a valuable lesson that as the Internet shifts to mobile, the public market doesn't take very kindly to desktop-centric tech companies.
With the Internet shifting inexorably to smartphones, losing visibility into iOS users — the users who spend the most money and time online — will skew the data and render it unreliable.
Mr. Huang is particularly intrigued by the idea of using the Internet to shift processing to powerful centralized computers.
