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By Chris Selland on March 7, 2010
What does the Flash vs. HTML5 debate – over the future of web video – mean to Adobe’s future?
Posted in Business, Software | Tagged $GOOG, AAPL, ADBE, flash, HTML5, iPad, Video, Web
By Chris Selland on February 21, 2010
Tech is poised for growth in 2010 but it’s increasingly looking like a much better year for the well-established and well-respected tech companies, and a challenging environment for the second-tire companies.
Posted in Business | Tagged $CSCO, $GOOG, AAPL, crm, Dell, HPQ, ibm, MSFT, orcl, S, Uncategorized
By Chris Selland on February 14, 2010
Is Google Buzz just a Twitter wanna-be, or is it a key component of a much larger strategy to take on Facebook and own the infrastructure of the social web?
Posted in Business | Tagged AOL, Facebook, google, Google Buzz, Google Reader, Google Wave, Twitter, YouTube
By Chris Selland on January 29, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
First I should get my opinion on the $AAPL iPad out of the way. Yes, I want one – but I will probably get rid of my iPhone if I do. Lack of multitasking and a keyboard drives me nuts. I want a $GOOG Android phone.
iPad is cool media consumption device, [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged $GOOG, AAPL, apple, AT&T, Cloud Computing, google, iPhone, mifi, mobile, NVTL, S, T, Telecommunications, Verizon, VZ
By Chris Selland on January 14, 2010
Lots of activity in $RNWK this morning as the share price is up ~16% at the time of this post – following yesterday’s announcement that founder and longtime CEO Rob Glaser is stepping down. Investors are clearly seeing this as a path to the sale of the company as Canaccord Adams upgrades them on buyout speculation and [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged RealNetworks, RNWK, stocktwits, Streaming media, Uncategorized
By Chris Selland on January 12, 2010
Looks like there’s a good chance my predictions that Salesforce.com ($CRM) will get more aggressive on the M&A front in 2010 are coming true. Fellow Enterprise Irregular Larry Dignan has more details on the $500 million convertible bond issue.
Of course, $500M likely does not a ‘game changer’ acquisition buy, but it can certainly help fund [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged crm, EPAY, Mergers & Acquisitions, salesforce.com, SLRY, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, VOCS
By Chris Selland on December 22, 2009
This is by no means a comprehensive list – it’s admittedly biased toward the tech sectors I follow most closely (software and wireless) – but here are a few companies I’ll be keeping an eye on as we move into the new year – some as short-term opportunities, others with a longer time horizon. If, [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged $GOOG, AAPL, crm, Dell, FBOOK, Java, NUAN, NVTL, orcl, rimm, S, sap, T, Uncategorized, VZ, YELP
By Chris Selland on December 15, 2009
Image by louisvolant via Flickr
I was initially skeptical this morning on MKM’s buy call on $PALM, but thinking it through the scenario is at least interesting.
While the Sprint-only ($S) Pre has had a very tough time competing with the iPhone and other high-end smartphones, the newer and lower-end Pixi is being heavily promoted & discounted [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged $NOK, AAPL, AMZN, iPhone, palm, Palm pixi, Palm Pre, S, Smartphone, T, Uncategorized, VZ, WMT
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By Chris Selland on December 14, 2009
I made a bit of a wisecrack (I do that often…) yesterday on Twitter in response to Ray Wang of Altimeter Group’s tweet that traditional CRM vendors are making "Not much progress on Social other than adding "another" channel."
My response to Ray’s tweet was that SCRM ‘09 sounds a lot like eCRM ‘99, which [...]
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Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Analysis, Barbara, Barbara French, Bob Warfield, buzzword bingo, crm, crm vendors, customer environment, eCRM, Enterprise 2.0, harmless game, Humor, Infrastructure 2.0, ipo money, Jeremiah Owyang, John Moore, letter acronyms, nasty notes, quot, Ray, Ray Wang, Real-Time Web, response, SCRM, Sharing, Social, Social Media, today, tweet
By Chris Selland on December 1, 2009
I’ll admit it – I love ‘holiday prediction’ time. It gives us all a chance to reflect on the year past and think about what’s going to happen in the year ahead.
2009 has been a tough year although we do seem (despite the Dubai woes which are literally taking place as I write this…) to [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Akamai, Amazon, Analysis, apple, AT&T, AthenaHealth, Comcast, Dish, Emdeon, google, ibm, Infrastructure 2.0, iPhone, linkedin, mobile, Nuance, predictions, salesforce, Social Media, startups, TiVo, Verizon
