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 Transform Enterprise Mobility, the two compan...

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 deliver default status for Google's sea...

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 malicious attack on SnapChat on the CNN website. In a recen...

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 18, 2013, I decided to take a look at the ...

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 better at this type of task if sales management approached th...

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 experience with Facebook and Twitter as public venues tha...