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Wish everybody well . . . the market will take care of dumb competitors: I meet with a lot of people, a lot of startups, and many many times they will tell me how their competitors are messing up, how f*!d they are. Often I get to hear about their competitors more than they tell me about themselves. My advice is...; Tags: Competitor, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Best Affiliate Programs (exe): Discover the newest best affiliate programs and promote them before your competitors have even heard about them. By the time your competitors start to see what's going on, you are already making money from the next killer product. Best Affiliate Programs helps you to make more money online.; Tags: Competitor, Money; Software downloads 2008-01-11
Creditmatics (CAB): Computer Aided Business StrategiesCABS is a new genre of s/w apps.Creditmatics1.0 enables you to create opinion poll data and use it to estimate why certain groups of customers choose your competitors' services, and, also to analyze the estimated change in customer preferences by changing features of your loan/credit schemes vis--vis...; Tags: Competitor, Computer Aided Business Strategies, Productivity; Software downloads 2006-10-26
Evaluating Your (and Your Competitors') Overall SEM Presence: Knowing what the competition is up to isn't just idle curiosity. From a SEM perspective, it can help to identify gaps in one's own program, bidding opportunities, SEO flaws and techniques, new advertising approaches and even gaps in the competitors programs that can be exploited. It can also help a...; Tags: Competitor, Gap, Productivity, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2006-07-25
Focus on Competitor Analysis: Competitor analysis has developed from a simple emphasis on gathering data about competitors to a much greater in-depth analysis of customers' strategies and actions. The most competitive businesses are those that effectively transform data relating to competitors into "decision-relevant" insights. This actionlist explains how a greater awareness and understanding of...; Tags: Competitor, Analysis, Competitor Analysis; Download resources 2006-06-01

Filling in the Data Leaks (Protecting Your Personal Stuff): Leakage of confidential intellectual property can seriously threaten an organization's viability. Once released over email, the transmitting flood of data which was once between company and client can fall into the hands of competitors, sometimes even forwarded by potential clients to competitors. Do you want to give your competitors shortcuts...; Tags: Competitor, Essential Security Software, E-mail, Intellectual Property, Online Communications, Research & Development, Business Operations; White papers 2006-01-12
Dynamic Keyword (exe): Dynamic Keyword is an all-in-One PPC Pay Per Click Keywords Analysis Tool. It helps view competitors' bids, check competitors' detailed information, identify which competitor Fraud Click your ad and analyze keywords value in more than 20 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea,...; Tags: Competitor, Analysis, Dynamic Keyword, Dynamic Keyword Freeware, Roi/Tco, Channel Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing; Software downloads 2005-12-19
Webcompetitor (exe): Instant web-based evaluation of your visibility compared to your competitors. Score and rating of competitors. Score and rating of search engine. Score and rating for words. And many features.; Tags: Competitor, Search, Channel Management, Marketing; Software downloads 2005-09-02
Analyzing Your Competitors: Use the strategic group map technique to determine where your competitors are in the market, where you are and where you need to be.; Tags: Competitor, Productivity, Business Management; Whiteboards 2005-07-19
Market Positioning for Start-Up Businesses: Are people finding many of their best prospects already working with competitors? When one pursues a new opportunity, is someone else capturing the prize? If so, it's probably time to look carefully at the market positioning. The market position is the place one occupies in the mind of prospective clients....; Tags: Competitor, Positioning, Market Position, Branding, Marketing; White papers 2005-04-01

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Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics: In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...; Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Gallery: Google's Knol takes on Wikipedia: Google has unveiled its own "unit of knowledge" with a competitor to Wikipedia called Knol. Google's online encyclopedia promises to lend some credence by identifying the authors. by Andy Smith; Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Online Communications, Andy Smith, Google, Knol, wiki, encyclopedia; Image galleries 2008-07-24
Facebook gets serious about app quality: Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings: Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...; Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience: Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....; Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot; News items 2008-07-23
VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale: updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...; Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot: Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to bootKyte ClarificationsHi, this is Gannon from Kyte. I'd like to clarify a few issues raised by your article:Your article compares kyte.com to qik.com. First off, Kyte.com is our corporate site, not our service, so this comparison is irrelevant. Our...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blogging, public beta, Qik, Kyte; Discussion threads 2008-07-21
Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot: Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...; Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-20
Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?: After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...; Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-18
iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?: iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?Is it a battery issue for the turn by turn?Some have said a a turn by turn would be a massive drain on battery performance. Could it be that Apple actually wants a 3rd party...; Tags: Engineering, iPhone 3G GPS, antenna department, GPS, IS IT, Garmin Ltd., Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPhone, battery; Discussion threads 2008-07-18