The “Global Partnership” announced on July 15, 2014, between Apple® and IBM may appeal to more enterprise business technology consumers than would otherwise appear to be the case. In a press release titled Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to… Read more ›
In an article written by Rolfe Winkler, titled “Android’s ‘Open’ System Has Limits”, which was published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Mr. Winkler notes how Google has deftly won concessions from Android OEMs. These concessions… Read more ›
On January 14, 2014, the news broke of a Federal Appeals Court ruling, which blocks the Net Neutrality rules of the U. S. FCC. If this ruling is upheld, then high speed data providers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc) can begin… Read more ›
The publicly announced acquisition of Mandiant by FireEye appeared to me to be perfectly timed. The press release about this acquisition was published on January 2, 2014, merely one day after Doug Gross, of CNN, posted the details of the… Read more ›
I’m interested in the online advertising business. When I read about Google’s performance for the 3rd quarter, 2013, exceeding analyst estimates, and noted more than a 12% follow-on appreciation in the per share price of Google’s stock by Friday, October… Read more ›
Small businesses often operate at a disadvantage when it comes to the range of options available to them for generating leads from online communications opportunities. Rarely will one of these lead generation systems include a ranking component. But a lead… Read more ›
ISVs interested in online marketing can use goals and events with Google Analytics to identify problems with web site content. Google Analytics is a free tool with a lot of features and capability, including goals and events. It isn’t easy… Read more ›
Most ISVs have an objective of establishing a recurring revenue model. When the end of a business year rolls around, these ISVs actively reach out to their customers to hasten subscription renewals. We think most of these ISVs would do… Read more ›
Building a presence on Facebook, Twitter, or even through a corporate blog has no other purpose as we see it (and strictly from a business perspective) than to create opportunities to engage with market participants. We have lots of recent… Read more ›
In order to formulate a competitive market plan it is essential to collect accurate information about competitors. Perhaps for this reason alone, with regard to developing an entirely valid understanding of the business operations of competitors in a market, it… Read more ›
