We are on the cusp of voting for a new President. Frankly, I can’t wait. It’s just too much – too much advertising, too much news coverage of the candidates, to much of who dis’d whom. Despite all the prattle, there is one activity that political campaigns do well that continues to fascinate me: Opposition [...] ...
Amidst this week’s market turmoil, T-Mobile and Google announced the first Google phone based on Google’s Android platform. All the articles this past week, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times (An iPhone Rival Open to Whims) missed a very important point.
Most of the press is looking at the Android platform and [...] ...
In competitive intelligence, we often lack a perfect set of data, so we do a lot of analysis to fill in the blanks. Sometimes, though, you actually can find the dead-on-data you’re seeking. You’ve nailed it. That’s a lesson I learned at a barber shop a few weeks ago. I realized just how much information [...] ...
Before I left work for the ballgame yesterday afternoon, I read an article about the July 11 release of the new iPhone. The reviewer was impressed with Apple’s hardware improvements, such as the move to 3G technology, but was more impressed with the fact that Apple has opened its doors wide to applications developers. This [...] ...
Bain Capital Ventures just invested $53 million in LinkedIn, thereby assigning a billion dollar value for the social network that surprised some analysts in this down market. No matter, because it was the daughter of Holocaust survivors that told me its true value. If her story has any meaning, it presents testimony to social networking’s [...] ...