Posts Tagged with strategy

SDI Technologies Extends Compatibility to iPad

There are few who pay particular attention to the alarm clock in their hotel room. Those who do may find a nifty innovation in the rectangular timepiece. Nearly 40% of the 4.9 million hotel rooms in the United States have an iHome propped up on the bedside table. Looking a lot like the conventional hotel [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Ford Brings Back the Explorer

As the old adage has it “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
The Ford Explorer was once one of the biggest of them all, rolling off the car lots by the hundreds of thousands per year around the world since March of 1990. But a decade later, with the recent dramatic increases in gas [...]

Filed under: Environment, News on June 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Funding Boost for UK High Tech Businesses

Funding from the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF) was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who claims it demonstrates a “commitment to the industries and the technologies.”
The UKIIF was announced by Brown last June and will target slow growing businesses, start-ups and spin-outs including those in the pre-profit and pre-revenue stages of development.
It was [...]

Filed under: News, Uncategorized on February 25th, 2010 @ 11:34 am

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Haiti Donations Exceed $150 Million

The earthquake that hit Haiti last Tuesday has prompted an unprecedented flurry of donations that vastly exceeds the amount raised for previous international catastrophes over the same number of days.
Donors have already contributed more than $150 million to major U.S. relief groups for the catastrophe in Haiti. By comparison, such charities had only raised around [...]

Filed under: News on January 19th, 2010 @ 8:00 am

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eBay CEO Focuses on Businesses and Consumers

No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]

Filed under: Business, News on September 15th, 2009 @ 10:44 am

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Microsoft to Launch Opensource Foundation

In an effort to get further involved in the growing opensource movement, Microsoft has announced that it will be creating and funding ($1 million annually) the CodePlex Foundation. The initial framing of the announcement, is as a neutral place for companies and developers to share ideas and interact, ultimately increasing the commercial opportunities for all [...]

New Study on Influenza Vaccination

I just read an article on the Economist summarizing a study conducted by scientists from Clemson and Yale that details strategies for vaccinating large populations. This new research disputes the long held notion that protecting the individual is the best way to combat a virus. An idea that goes against the current practice of vaccinating those [...]

Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 26th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm

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Non-Profits Making Acquisitions?

I’ve often written that non-profits and charities world be well served by taking cues from the business world by developing practices such as performance evaluations and affinity marketing to grow their reach and fundraising capabilities, but acquiring public companies is not something I would have thought to suggest. But that exactly what UK-based Housing 21, [...]

Filed under: News, Philanthropy on August 19th, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

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Brand Identity in the Age of Social Media

Whether or not you agree with the comments made by Whole Foods’ co-founder and CEO John Mackey in a recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on the state of US healthcare, the resulting consumer backlash raises interesting questions around establishing and maintaining brand identity in an era of increasing engagement and transparency.
Having an [...]

Microsoft to Partner Up Again, Nokia the Beneficiary

Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]

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