Merger Benefits
One company acquiring another company can be a very good thing for customers, shareholders, and management. In the past ten years IBM has made nearly 50 acquisitions that have allowed it to broaden and deepen its Websphere middleware for the Internet. There have been numerous financial services companies that have used mergers as a way […]
Which Side Are You On?
The new Lenovo Z60 Widescreen ThinkPad is getting high marks. The company has developed a clever website (some images are below) to allow people to "vote" for which model they like better — the one with the black case or the one with the titanium case. If you are not sure which to vote for, […]
The Search
The keynote speaker at the SG Cowen & Co. Internet Conference (more about the conference coming up) at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York yesterday was John Battelle. John has a very distinguished background as Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, co-founder of Wired magazine, founder and publisher of […]
Palladium Caching
Thanks to Susan Panian at American Town Network (now the largest online community network in the U.S.) for telling me about how Palladium shoes is taking an innovative approach to selling shoes by tapping in to Geocaching. Geocaching is on my short list of next big things, and I have promised to write a non-trivial […]
IBM Happenings: November 2005
The month of November was another incredibly busy month for IBM, with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives including one help find a cure for cancer. There have eight acquisitions year-to-date, thirty-five in the past five years, and forty-eight in the past ten years. The announcements made by the […]
