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5 looming questions about the Amazon-Zappos deal

Amazon's acquisition of Zappos is notable on a few fronts. The combination is largely complementary, but there are a few questions hanging. With any luck there will be a few answers on Amazon's second quarter earnings conference call. Among the questions about Amazon's $847 million purchase of...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Zappos, Mitchell, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Mozilla executive director search to loop in community

The Mozilla Foundation is being pretty open about its search for an executive director and plans to loop in community members to help select candidates. On Mozilla's Usenet group last night, Mitchell Baker, known as Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler, said she is part of the team defining the search process...

Tags: General, Open Source, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-25

SaaS: IBM helps drive $10 billion Software as a Service opportunity

Will 30% of new business software be delivered via a SaaS model by 2010? IBM is doing everything it can to help make the industry prediction a reality, an IBM PartnerWorld reality in particular.Dave Mitchell, IBM, Program Director, Software as a Service, has a message for Independent Software Vendors ISVs...

Tags: Enterprise, IBM, Software

Blog posts 2007-03-13

A tiered Internet is nothing new: and here's how VoIP call quality suffers

The big telecom and cable behemoths would love to charge high bandwidth services extra for fast service. One variation of this proposal would offer these services under a tiered rate structure where you would pay more money for preferential bandwidth. That's what Shaw Communications wants to do. Despite the cries...

Tags: QoS

Blog posts 2006-03-15

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Facebook as a living obituary aka 'goodbye old friend'

Kudos to Facebook on a great ideaI love the idea of a profile turning into a memorial after somebody dies. It gives everyone a place to express what they are feeling about the loss. It gives everyone a place to tell their stories. It let's those who barely knew them...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

AOL names its Board of Directors

AOL, which is expected to be spun off from Time Warner as an independent company later this year, has named the members of its Board of Directors, who will join CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong at the table. They are: Richard Dalzell, former Chief Information Officer of...

Tags: America Online Inc., Board, Board Of Directors, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-26

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Amazon same day delivery squarely aimed at brick-and-mortar rivals

Amazon is using its distribution, information technology and shipping prowess to try and gain sales from brick-and-mortar retailers all the way up to Christmas. As Amazon continues to grow its rivals won't be Google and eBay as much as your local Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl's. Enter Amazon's...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Sales, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Google's third quarter: Expectations are high

Google's third quarter is expected to be strong and analysts are already busy raising targets for the fourth quarter. The search giant reports earnings Thursday and Wall Street is expecting earnings of $5.42 a share on revenue of $4.24 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. However, most analysts...

Tags: Paid Search, Revenue, Google Inc., Analyst, Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Yahoo's sale of Alibaba.com stake opportunistic

There's a fair amount of hubbub about Yahoo's decision to sell its stake in Alibaba.com, but it's really just an opportunistic trade. Reuters notes that Yahoo is selling its entire 1.14 stake in Alibaba.com, China's B2B e-commerce giant, to net about $150 million. The move makes sense...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba.com, IPO, B2B, Investment, Taxes, Financial Planning, Financial Services, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Goldman goes ga-ga for Google, cites YouTube, Europe and display ads

Goldman Sachs figures Google will come out of the downturn with revenue growth rates in the mid-teens in 2010. Goldman Sachs added Google to its "conviction buy list" with a 6-month target of $560. Overall, the investment firm sees Google excelling in Europe as travel and e-commerce...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Goldman, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Target's departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity for GSI Commerce?

Target plans to leave Amazon's e-commerce platform to build its own site ahead of the 2011 holiday season. The transition is going to be one of the more visible IT projects in the next two years. Amazon will take a bit of a profit hit from the...

Tags: Information Technology, GSI Commerce Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, E-business, Target, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Retail, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

The Speakers Group: 'Women will be better represented'

The last couple of weeks begot a bit of brouhaha when The Speakers Group posted a "top 10 list" of social media speakers that included only men. The Internet backlash was severe from a social media community up in arms, questioning why the speakers bureau couldn't find at least one...

Tags: Women, Speaker, Blog, Social Media, Charlene, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-04

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Google's Chrome OS: A threat to Intel and the rise of ARM chips

Google's Chrome OS, which generated an extreme amount of hubbub, is a defensive move as much as it is an offensive one, say analysts. Nevertheless, Google's move will have a wide impact on the industry. Analysts were handicapping Google's move into operating systems on Thursday and some...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, ARM, Operating System, Analyst, Google Chrome, Intel Corp., Chip, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Amazon's Kindle price cut: Thank Prime View's acquisition of E-Ink

Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299, a $60 drop that may stoke demand. But Amazon's move has more to do with scale than any competitive threat. Let's face it: A $299 Kindle 2 still isn't cheap, but it is quite notable that...

Tags: Acquisition, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Sales, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Churchill Club podcast: The Cybersecurity Challenge

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts examine the cybersecurity conundrum and whether the U.S. can herd enough private---and public sector---cats to secure the Internet. With the world increasingly going "cyber," how is cybersecurity keeping up? Exponentially more data is stored...

Tags: Cybersecurity, Podcasts, Internet, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

New CIO's vision: Democratizing Data

DC's data feed of crime data on Google Maps links a police report to the location. W. David Stephenson knows our new federal CIO pretty well: he's been cowriting a book with him: Democratizing Data, to be published by O'Reilly. So I turned to Stephenson...

Tags: Performance, Data, Vision, DC, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-08

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and on Demand: Working With the Data Form Web Part and SharePoint Designer With Raymond Mitchell (Level 100)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a powerful tool for customizing the look and feel of the SharePoint sites. SharePoint Designer can also help to build interactive dashboards. The presenter of this webcast shows the magical Data Form Web Part and how one can use it to display SharePoint data...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-02-18

Should Mozilla stay out of the whole IE/EU antitrust mess?

Mozilla Foundation chairperson Mitchell Baker believes that because Internet Explorer is integrated into the OS this give Microsoft an unfair advantage in the browser war. As a result of this Baker is in favor of EU involvement to try to level the playing field. Is this a bad move for...

Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Leadership, Strategy, Open Source, Internet, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-02-11