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FUBAR Alert: SUN is not Setting – Well That’s What There PR Team says..
For Immediate Hype Release – From We Are Not Failing SUN PR Team Sun says ‘committed’ to leadership team, growth strategy * Sun’s comments come after collapse of talks with IBM BOSTON, April 6 (Reuters) – Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O) said it stood by its leadership team, led by Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, a day ...
Innovation is Happening – Can You Recognize It?
The post on Cisco that I just posted thanks to the AP :-) talks about how the opportunities for companies are now for big companies. That being said the big companies aren’t the only ones retrenching. The startup scene has been brewing strong for 8 months now especially early stage startups. Startups are nimble and ...
The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench
By Rachel Metz AP Technology Writer / April 5, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif.—On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be much of a connection between the servers that run corporate data centers and a handheld video camera you use to film family vacations. Yet both have somehow become part of the master plan at Cisco ...
Support @RelevantStudio – Jon Engle Fights for His Work
{Editors Note: Jon’s site is down for some reason so I’m posting this blog post here to get a groundswell of support for his trouble. It is a shakedown and he isn’t armed and no doubt this can cause irreparable harm to Jon. I am trying to get Jon’s ok to post this. If he ...
Firing of Facebook’s CFO Gideon Yu – Brutal Work Conditions or Culture? Both
I was waiting to comment on the release of Gideon Yu from Facebook, but given the new memo Kara Swisher posted I can’t wait any longer. I have information from a source close to the company that the reason for his leaving was the brutal work conditions. Lets be clear here Gideon doesn’t need the ...
Social Media Lessons From My Friends Who Are On Top of Social Media Trends
Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang, Altimeter Group’s founder Charlene Li, and Peter Kim, an enterprise social-technology researcher are all over the social media trends. This post on their talk yesterday at Web 2.0 Expo is right on the money. Ironically, I was giving a talk to top brands in LA that morning and many of my ...
Analysis: Sulake Big Revenues ?? Inside the Numbers
Sulake has a problem (updated with more figures) is a post by one of my twitter followers who pointed out some potential issues with the recent grandstanding by Sulake. I have never heard of these guys before but was impressed with their figures that they were doing tons in revenue. It was a topic of ...
Four Stages of Social Media – My Social Media Briefing With Senior Brand and Marketing Managers
Tomorrow I will be in LA to give a talk about the Social Media Opportunity. I’m excited to brief a select group of mainstream brand marketers about the research that I’ve accumulated over the past few years. One of the benefits of being a pioneer in social media and “present at creation” is that I’ve ...
Google Now Getting into Venture Capital – Google Ventures – It’s About Time
Google Ventures was announced today by Rich Miner and Bill Maris, Managing Partners, Google Ventures. What is interesting is that I was just at Intel Capital talking to Mike Buckley and we talked about the evolution of corporate venture capital. It’s a new ball game these days in corporate venture capital with all the cutbacks ...
Skype iPhone App Now Available in Apple App Store on iTunes – Here is Video of Skype iPhone
The long anticipated Skype for iPhone and iPod touch has hit the App Store, and it’s yours to download for free – here is the link to Apple iTunes App Store. This officially puts the nail in the coffin for the other Skype iPhone clone apps. Also 9 to 5 is reporting that you install ...
