When Freemium Fails – The Wall Street Journal.

August 25, 2012 Leave a comment

I thought you would be interested in the following story on WSJ.com.

When Freemium Fails

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443713704577603782317318996.html

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Dell’s Virtuous Cycle Stops Spinning – The Wall Street Journal.

August 25, 2012 Leave a comment

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Dell’s Virtuous Cycle Stops Spinning

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444082904577607842238443130.html

The Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader for iPhoneTM delivers the latest global news, financial events, market insights and information to keep you ahead of the curve. Get the information you depend on plus entertainment, culture, and sports coverage when, where, and how you want it from the most credible source for news and information. Click below to download the WSJ Mobile Reader for free from the iTunes App Store.

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Video – Research Suggests People Are Actually Less Intelligent in Small Group Settings – WSJ.com

August 21, 2012 Leave a comment

Have you ever clammed up at a party or found yourself tongue-tied at a meeting for fear of saying something stupid—even though you consider yourself at least as smart as anyone else in the room?

via Video – Research Suggests People Are Actually Less Intelligent in Small Group Settings – WSJ.com.

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Video – Interview Exclusive: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop – WSJ.com

August 21, 2012 Leave a comment

More than seven years before Apple Inc. AAPL -0.72% rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring product: a tablet computer with a wireless connection and touch screen—all features today of the hot-selling Apple iPad.

via Video – Interview Exclusive: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop – WSJ.com.

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Video – Once-Dominant Japanese Electronics Firms Now Lag Behind Apple, Samsung – WSJ.com

August 21, 2012 Leave a comment

Smartphones are now playing center stage in the consumer-electronics world, not only delivering staggering sales growth, but also cannibalizing sales of digital cameras, portable game machines and other strongholds of Japanese electronics.

via Video – Once-Dominant Japanese Electronics Firms Now Lag Behind Apple, Samsung – WSJ.com.

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Video – What Lessons Can New Tech Learn From Apple Success? – WSJ.com

August 21, 2012 Leave a comment

Apple Inc. AAPL -0.21% surpassed Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.62% Monday as the largest U.S. company ever, measured by stock-market value.

Apple hit the new milestone—$623.52 billion—at a time when its influence on the economy, on the stock market and on popular culture rivals that of some of the most powerful companies in U.S. history: General Motors Co., GM +0.82% whose Corvette and Impala typified a confident postwar manufacturing giant; Microsoft, whose technology heralded the arrival of the personal computer and the early Internet age; and International Business Machines Corp., IBM -0.14% whose buttoned-down rigor inspired rivals to reach for greatness.

“It is one of those iconic companies,” says Richard Sylla, professor of financial history at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “When I think about these companies, their products were used by all kinds of people and their leaders were considered geniuses.”

via Video – What Lessons Can New Tech Learn From Apple Success? – WSJ.com.

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In Silicon Valley, Patents Go on Trial – The Wall Street Journal.

July 25, 2012 Leave a comment

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In Silicon Valley, Patents Go on Trial

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443295404577543221814648592.html

The Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader for iPhoneTM delivers the latest global news, financial events, market insights and information to keep you ahead of the curve. Get the information you depend on plus entertainment, culture, and sports coverage when, where, and how you want it from the most credible source for news and information. Click below to download the WSJ Mobile Reader for free from the iTunes App Store.

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Cnooc to Buy Nexen for $15.1 Billion – The Wall Street Journal.

July 23, 2012 Leave a comment

I thought you would be interested in the following story on WSJ.com.

Cnooc to Buy Nexen for $15.1 Billion

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577544470741886332.html

The Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader for iPhoneTM delivers the latest global news, financial events, market insights and information to keep you ahead of the curve. Get the information you depend on plus entertainment, culture, and sports coverage when, where, and how you want it from the most credible source for news and information. Click below to download the WSJ Mobile Reader for free from the iTunes App Store.

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Marc Andreessen: Why Software is Eating the World – WSJ.com

July 19, 2012 Leave a comment

Interesting essay by Marc Andreesen (2011, WSJ):

This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I’ve observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market.

In an interview with WSJ’s Kevin Delaney, Groupon and LinkedIn investor Marc Andreessen insists that the recent popularity of tech companies does not constitute a bubble. He also stressed that both Apple and Google are undervalued and that “the market doesn’t like tech.”In short, software is eating the world.

More than 10 years after the peak of the 1990s dot-com bubble, a dozen or so new Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter are sparking controversy in Silicon Valley, due to their rapidly growing private market valuations, and even the occasional successful IPO. With scars from the heyday of Webvan and Pets.com still fresh in the investor psyche, people are asking, “Isn’t this just a dangerous new bubble?”

Read further: Video – Groupon Investor Marc Andreessen Insists there is No Tech Bubble, Apple and Google are Undervalued – WSJ.com.

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Becoming more strategic: Three tips for any executive – McKinsey Quarterly

July 19, 2012 Leave a comment

From McKinsey Quarterly:

We are entering the age of the strategist. As our colleagues Chris Bradley, Lowell Bryan, and Sven Smit have explained in “Managing the strategy journey,” a powerful means of coping with today’s more volatile environment is increasing the time a com pany’s top team spends on strategy. Involving more senior leaders in strategic dialogue makes it easier to stay ahead of emerging opportunities, respond quickly to unexpected threats, and make timely decisions.

This is a significant change. At a good number of companies, corporate strategy has long represented the bland aggregation of strategies that individual business unit heads put forward.1 At others, it’s been the domain of a small coterie, perhaps led by a chief strategist who is protective of his or her domain—or the exclusive territory of a CEO.

Rare is the company, though, where all members of the top team have well-developed strategic muscles. Some executives reach the C-suite because of functional expertise, while others, including business unit heads and even some CEOs, are much stronger on execution than on strategic thinking. In some companies, that very issue has given rise to the position of chief strategy officer—yet even a number of executives playing this role disclosed…..

Read rest of arficle here Becoming more strategic: Three tips for any executive – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy – Strategy in Practice.

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