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Too Much Autonomy at HP is Costly
- November 20, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Financial Management, High-tech, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, News
No CommentsHP announced, today, that it would be taking an $8.8 billion charge resulting from accounting anomalies and improprieties discovered at Autonomy, a British Software maker that it bought last year. The announcement has caused HP shares to drop more than 13 percent. The autonomy acquisition was done under former CEO, Leo Apotheker’s watch. The acquisition
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The New “Big Apple”
- August 21, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Brand Revitalization, High-tech, Information Technology, Innovation, News, Stock Market
Yesterday, Apple Inc. became the most valuable company in history in terms of market capitalization at $623.52 billion, surpassing the record set by Microsoft in December of 1999. It is ironic that a company that was near bankruptcy when Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1997, and which Michael Dell once told an audience that
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It Looks Good On the “Surface,” But…
- June 19, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Innovation, News
Microsoft, on Monday, introduced its new Windows 8-based Surface PCs/tablets. The product was introduced to a select media audience. Features include a cover that doubles as a keyboard, A “kick stand” that allows the user to prop the device up for easier viewing. Also included is a USB 2.0 port and, of course, Microsoft’s Office
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RIM is on the Brim and No Mas for Nokia?
- June 14, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Innovation, News
At the end of last month, Research In Motion on Tuesday announced that it could (meaning “would’) report its second consecutive quarterly operating loss and said it had engaged Morgan Stanley to help it review its business, which, by interpretation, means a probable effort to sell. This was, and still is bad news for the
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Top Tech Companies Are In “Fast Company”
- March 18, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Information Technology, Innovation, News
Fast Company has published its list of businesses which they consider to be the most innovative. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are considered to be the best “transformational firms,” and are obsessions of the business world…” All four jostled for FastCompany’s No. 1 title–with Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, Apple’s Siri voice assistant, Facebook’s Timeline interface,
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The PIPA/SOPA-pera: Hollywood Versus Silicon Valley
- January 20, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Copyright Infringement, High-tech, Media, News
Protect IP Act (PIPA), emanating from the U.S. Senate, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), from the U.S. House of representatives, have unleashed activism on a major scale. Disgusted by the lack of forethought in the construct of these two bills, major web-site operators initiated black-outs that spawned angry phone calls, e-mails, and telegrams
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Microsoft versus Google: “It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again”
- March 31, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Anti-trust, High-tech, News
Disruptive innovation, as originally coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves ‘up market,’ eventually displacing established competitors. Google is a classic distruptor, helping, along with Apple Computer, usher in a whole new computing
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Crossing the Paradigm Bridge
- March 15, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Information Technology, IT Architecture, News
Five years ago, we predicted the advent of the “internet appliance” which would become the 4th high technology paradigm. With the 4th paradigm came concern, mainly within corporate IT circles, about the so-called “consumerization” of IT. Apple Computer, which spearheaded the newest technology paradigm, has, as of this month, put the pressure on with the
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Microsoft + Nokia: A Living Dog Is Better Than a Dead Lion
- February 14, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, News, Telecommunications
On Friday, February 11, 2011, Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, and tech giant, Microsoft, announced an alliance to make smart phones to attempt to take market share of from Apple and Google. Nokia will abandon its open-share smart phone software and use, instead Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. The announcement caused Nokia shares to
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Changing of the Guard – Potential Perils in Top Leadership Changes at Chief High Tech Rivals
- January 22, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, News, Succession Planning
Last Monday, Steve Jobs announced that he will be taking a leave of absence in order to focus on his personal health issues. While this is not the first time that Mr. Jobs has taken a medical leave of absence, the tech genius and chief visionary of the company, this time, did not indicate a
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