For young workers, the future is here already
FORTUNE — Anthony Little, a trader based in New York, strides across the trading floor with a Bluetooth headset tucked neatly into his ear as the lights on his trading turret flash urgently, indicating three additional incoming calls. In an animated discussion with a client based in Chicago, he gestures…
New Business Strategies(TM) Reveals Six Laws of Social Business
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Mar 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –New Business Strategies, a strategic marketing consultancy, announces the six laws companies should embrace to drive ROI from their social business strategies. Recent polls found that over fifty percent of B2B companies are seeing their sales cycles lengthen or change. To accelerate sales cycles,…
Atlassian buys its way into HipChat
Atlassian, is adding a real time component to its collaboration software suite with the acquisition of San Francisco-based HipChat. The Australian software trailblazer would not disclose terms of the deal but HipChat’s three co-founders Pete Curley, Garret Heaton and Chris Rivers will be joining Atlassian to continue to grow and…
For young workers, the future is here already
FORTUNE — Anthony Little, a trader based in New York, strides across the trading floor with a Bluetooth headset tucked neatly into his ear as the lights on his trading turret flash urgently, indicating three additional incoming calls. In an animated discussion with a client based in Chicago, he gestures…
Lexmark acquires Brainware
Lexmark International (NYSE: LXK) today announced the acquisition of Luxembourg-based BDGB Enterprise, including its US subsidiary Brainware, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, for a cash purchase price of approximately $148 million. Brainware now joins Perceptive Software, a standalone business unit within Lexmark. Brainware’s chief executive officer, Carl Mergele, will report…
ContactMonkey makes sharing your contact information stupendously easy, raises …
If you agree with me that sharing and saving contact details to digital address books is still a tedious pain even in this day and age, you’ll be happy to meet my new buddy ContactMonkey, which offers a ridiculously simple and effective way of frictionless, cross-platform sharing of contact information…
Research and Markets: Global Application Infrastructure and Middleware Market …
DUBLIN — Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/de0688/global_application) has announced the addition of the "Global Application Infrastructure and Middleware Market 2011-2014" report to their offering. TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global Application Infrastructure and Middleware market to grow at a CAGR of 7.2 percent over the TechNavio’s…
Tim Cook’s post-PC iPad domination dream crushed by reality
Despite Tim Cook’s declaration that we live in a post-PC world as he presented the new iPad to the world, analysts at Gartner forecast that demand for PCs will accelerate in the next two years. Apple CEO Cook dreams of a world in which fondleslabs not only outsell PCs but…
Dachis Group Kicks Off 2012 Social Business Summit Global Series in Austin
World’s Biggest Brands Convene to Explore the Growing Impact of Social at Every Level of the Organizational Chart AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire – Mar 8, 2012) – Dachis Group, the world’s leader in Social Business solutions, announced today the kickoff of the third annual Social Business Summit global series, taking place in Social…
Why Businesses Should Abandon Locally Hosted Software In Favour Of SaaS …
Go cloud!Cloud computing solutions are evincing interest of businesses across the globe. Companies make cloud services available through four avenues SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and BPaas, of which perhaps the best known is software-as-a-service (SaaS) making programs available via the web for word processing, email, spreadsheets and so on. While…