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Marketers Beware: Terrifying Pitfalls of the Viral Meme
Viral content has gone viral. Several people, including many of my Facebook friends, have referenced or forwarded the King of Clickbait article by Andrew Marantz in the New Yorker. It's taking off like wild fire. Yes, it's gone viral.
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Obama, the FCC and 2 Perspectives on Net Neutrality
The White House and President Obama dropped the hammer on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday, pressuring the FCC to introduce rules that would strengthen protection of the "Net Neutrality" concept for consumers.
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Nitro: From Down Under to Over $15M
Document productivity company Nitro, originally founded in Melbourne, Australia, will beef up its San Francisco headquarters after raising $15M from Bay Area venture capitalists (VCs) in a bid to go after the big fish of document management, including Adobe and Citrix.
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How Many Layers in Oracle's Cloud? #OOW14
SAN FRANCISCO -- The tech pundits here are happy to focus on the soap opera of management shifts including new roles for Oracle founder and chairman — former CEO and current CTO — Larry Ellison and Oracle co-CEOs Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. But the real story at Oracle OpenWorld
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Quaero Reinvents Itself (Again) After Buyout
Everything old is new again at Quaero. Fifteen years after it was founded, the data analytics company is a start-up again — now that it bought itself back from the parent company, CSG, that had acquired it in 2008.
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Too Much Fun: Things to Check This Weekend
CMS, big data and everything in between can be not only work, but also fascinating, practical in your personal life and a whole lot of fun. We’ve selected a few our favorites to share with you. Chatwala — Video Messaging 2.
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Internet Fake Out: The Clickbait and Ad Fraud Explosion
Do you ever log on the Internet and think: Wow, there's a lot of crap in here? You're not alone. Millions of salesmen are competing for your time -- and there are many tricks to the clicks. In fact, the Great Fake Internet is growing as ad fraud and clickbait
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No Earnings Tweet for #Twitter
Twitter shares fell about 23 percent in after-hours trading after the company announced quarterly earnings results and forward guidance that disappointed investors.
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Google, IBM and the Battle for Automated Customer Experience
Google has pinned its acquisition strategy on data, analytics, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). IBM is very focused in data analysis and levering its own AI technology, Watson, into other areas. All signs point to a looming battle between these two technology giants.
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Is There a Theme to Google's Latest Acquisition Binge?
Boston Dynamics, Nest and DeepMind. In the past month, Google has gone on yet another acquisition binge, spending at least $4 billion on a trio of startups that seem only loosely connected — robotics, home automation and artificial intelligence, respectively.
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$19T in Internet of Things: How Cisco Plans to Get There
Yesterday, CMSWire reported that Cisco CEO John Chambers thought the Internet of Things (IoT) was worth $19 trillion. Big number, eh? Today, Cisco shares didn't even budge, pointing out the market has trouble seeing this number.
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Inside the Road to Acquia's Possible IPO
The open-source model for software is shaking up the Web Content Management System (CMS) business. One company that has greatly benefited from this is Acquia, one of the Boston area's most successful startups.
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Notes from Gilbane: Business Model First, Customer Experience Second
BOSTON -- As I close out on my first Gilbane Conference, the overall impression I am left with is that many business managers are approaching a level of near-panic about speed and complexity at which new digital tools are surfacing to change the market. Don't panic.
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Who Will Win the Battle Between Xbox One and PlayStation 4?
The holiday sales season is upon us, which means it's time for Wall Street and the electronics industry to start handicapping holiday sales.
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