The tycoon known none other than Carlos Slim Helú, was up for the infamous Bill Gates tittle as recorded richest man in the world for 2008, when he had surpassed the 13 year-unbroken record. This may or may not see its place in the record books as anything extraordinary as the record held for only two weeks, around the time that Microsoft Office 2007 was officially released.
      More importantly than the shortly held title, in respect to this article, another noteworthy mention of the proverbial cannon ball dropped by the self made billionaire could have fallen to history, had this article not been written:
      Carlos Slim's milestone to success and notable mention came from his exploits of telecommunications industry in Mexico and much of Latin America [Wiki], not to computer sales, so it is no surprise that the owner of the CompUSA enterprise was keen on selling before the diving economic market had time to make its mark, which he wisely did.
      Without missing a beat, there was Systemax –you may know them better as owner of Tigerdirect– to take ownership of the moderately held franchise CompUSA, as Tigerdirect capitalized on CompUSA's Internet market, assuming their client base, newsletter subscribers, and web traffic. This move by the Internet base computer company was the first of many swift and seemingly quiet exploits of a dying market -- the in-store retail computer shop.
      Months after CompUSA closed its doors, and opened the proverbial Windows to Internet clientèle over tigerdirects database search engine of products, Circuit City went bankrupt. Once again, perhaps proving that the smart move was no mere fluke, tigerdirect bought over Circuit City's name, one again clientèle and Internet base, perhaps positioning themselves as one of the biggest Internet based computer retailers, right up there with newegg.
      If you were subscribed to either CompUSA or Circuit City's newsletters, you may think that you are being spammed like I initially did. Unexpectedly, about a week’s time after CC stock finally got delisted, and Circuit City finalized bankruptcy, I received a newsletter that Circuit City was having a sell. This to me raised an instant red flag as I, being in the IT field and once an employee of the now bankrupt company, knew that something just did not fit.
      Upon reviewing the newsletter, everything looked legit; no misleading links, nothing redirecting hyperlinks or mouse clicks, no malicious code, so I followed a link to CircuitCity.com, assuming that I'd get the infamous 404 error displayed -- no such page found.
      When the page loaded, in a mere few moments time, I was astonished to see the website was fully operational. Again this was strange as I had seen that the page was taken down only weeks before.
      I couldn't pass this up: I had to know what kind of prices would be listed for this, to me at the time, dead franchise. After a quick glance and a hit of a link, I noticed there were no phenomenal deals here, nothing that couldn't be found on newegg or tigerdirect for a better price (this is really what I was thinking at the time).
      So now I found myself pondering further as I noticed the results on the page looked very familiar. In only seconds I pinpointed that the search results, pictures, and listings were actually those from tigerdirect. It instantly clicked that tigerdirect had done it once again, but this time it hadn't shown the fluke of good business practice, but rather the genius of a company with an undeniable stronghold.
      I truly do applaud tigerdirect for this swift and perhaps too many, silent and seamless action. This is nearly the same way that I found tigerdirect had bought out CompUSA, followed by a quick Google search to verify my findings.
      It’s a cutthroat market out there: We use to say at Circuit City, that computer turnover took about six months -- the rate in which your hardware was obsolete -- and I now know that turnover of computer domination takes about the same.

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