Carbonite moved to Lewiston/Auburn Maine in 2011 and Rush gave it press when it dropped its India based employees. Provided about 150 jobs.
But stock dropped the other day at this onset of publicity. The Market sensed a trend in consumer incentive to look elsewhere?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855457/posts
I know people have dropped their yearly subscription with no refunds-so Carbonite had subscribers over a barrel.
Competitors of Carbonite are: CrashPlan+,Backblaze,MozyHome which can be Free -all have been reviewed above Carbonite [5].
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/maintenance/tp/online_backup_services.htm
LegalZoom was in the midst of an IPO announcement time frame. But, RocketLawyer has become the fastest growing in competition in legal prep with LZ.
http://www.rocketlawyer.com/news.aspx
So was the $66K that co-founder Brian Liu from Carbonite donated to the Obama 2012PAC worth the price of doing business to have Obama on his own personal dance card? Do then Boards gather and think differently?
Donald Trump backed Mayor Emanuel in Chicago, but that becomes the cost of doing business in a more bricks and mortar case scenario...cost of doing business in a city planning way.
I think is a risk for smaller corporations involved in these PACS, as the business, jobs and consumers are the ones most effected, not the Politicians. Maher gave a whopping mil so he is not so much at risk and now will be a speaker at a Dem event.
Rush will have his listeners, there is no question about that. If not on free radio FM/AM, paid satellite, Internet providers- all want Rush! More people probably used Carbonite because of Rush as Rush*Babies Trust Rush-so people buy.[15 mil listeners]
Beck knows controversy, left FOX and moved to Texas to produce his Internet TV and the Blaze. Blaze Editor “Billy” is always on Twitter for breaking news. A big Beck advertiser is Carbonite with ticker tape running across his home page. Regus is a big sponsor,Lifelock,Goldline.
http://www.glennbeck.com/connect/newsletter?gclid=CJH-iKLP1a4CFYgRNAodxH-DeQ
Howard Stern has been pretty silent on all this..Carbonite has no problem using Stern to push its products.
BUT ABC NEWS BLOG won’t let it go: Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says ‘Everything’s Cool’
Bottom line .... desert Rush because the Lefties are squawking & you will be cutting off your nose to spite your face .... Carbonite Fluked themselves. Rush’Babies’ back up their support of Rush with their pocketbooks .... the Lefties squawk & run. If every Lefty who lodged a complaint with a sponsor/advertiser also purchased something from them, this would be a much more damaging problem. But ... they hit and run and disappear into the vast liberal wasteland until the next issue comes up for them to swarm like African bees.