Marketing & Innovation
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2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison
2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison. There are several ways of looking at the market share comparison map by iCrossing. One is to highlight that Apple now has gone over the 50% market share mark in many countries (per below). 2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison Another is…
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Chinese Internet industry ready to grow beyond borders
China will be the World’s next Internet giant! Which Internet company generates the greatest number of micro transactions for virtual goods on a daily basis? If they were asked this question, most of our Western readers would undoubtedly mention Google, or Facebook and they would be wrong. In this piece,…
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Startups Don’t Need Marketing … Or Maybe Later by Fred Wilson
Startups Don’t Need Marketing … Or Maybe Later. Is a piece by Fred Wilson, an NYC Venture Capitalist, about why Marketing isn’t what a startup needs when its initiative is kick-started. Startups need intuition, hunches, “segmentuition” as I often say, not pricy surveys or acquisition campaigns. All of that comes…
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New shopping cart being implemented at last … but not by IDEO
The new shopping cart is here, at last. In this interesting story, Yannig Roth provides a follow up to the early developments of new style shopping carts as was described in a famous 1998 IDEO video. New shopping cart being implemented at last … but not by IDEO As Roth…
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The workspace of the future will be all about conversations
The Workspace of the future, an industry analyst perspective In his introduction, Michael Burrell from Orange Business Services described some of the main market trends include: Consumerization of IT, tuning the way that IT is working on its head. The millenials are also changing things in the workplace Mobility is…
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Sujal Patel: EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon on storage
EMC has just taken over Isilon and both businesses share a common understanding of where the storage business is going. On November 17, as part of our November US press tour, we went outside of Silicon Valley. We took an early morning flight to Seattle to meet with the representatives…
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A look into Isilon’s software-driven plug-and-play approach to storage
Our second presentation at Isilon’s headquarters was dedicated to a closer look into Isilon’s software-driven storage solution and the visit of its lab. Brett Hestsel, VP of engineering, gave us a more detailed presentation of Isilon’s distributed storage architecture. Brett has been with Isilon for 3 years, after working 10…
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Emulex is driving convergence of networks in the data centre
Data and storage networks used to be separate, but thanks to Emulex and networks convergence, this is about to change. Our last but one visit in Silicon Valley on November 18 was with Emulex, and we were greeted by Steve Daheb, CMO & SVP business development and Shaun Walsh, VP…
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Terry Cunningham of i365 reinvents the VAR business
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of Marketing. The topic was the reinvention of the VAR business.…
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Zscaler wants to be the Salesforce.com of Internet security!
On November 15, I was invited with a group of journalist to a press tour in the Silicon Valley (a sequel to our June 2010 press tour in the Valley). Our first presentation took place in Sunnyvale, Calif. at the main office of Zscaler, a ground-breaking cloud security provider, which…
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What is a trusted advisor and how do you become one?
You may not yet be familiar with Cisco and its ‘trusted advisor’ approach – in which the equipment provider is raising the bar and advising its clients rather than just selling to them. But what is a ‘trusted advisor’ and how do you achieve that status? Professor Lee Schlenker from…
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7 reasons why Social Media is a perfect fit for B2B
As I have witnessed time and time again, it is customary to say that B2C is more adapted to the use of social media than B2B. As matter of fact, I am not at all certain that this is true. The fact that there are fewer B2B examples of the…
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