Year: 2011
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Consumer Brands Reach New Audiences by Marketing Together
How many times have you heard about a new company or product and wondered about the behind-the-scenes that brought it to your attention? If the marketing was done well, prescription the mention or reference may have been seamless. In reality, try there’s a marketer at the company that’s shaping the story and helping bring it…
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Future of Screen Technology and Content Sharing
What experience do you see five years out for screen technology, prosthesis user interfaces, health mobile devices and content sharing? TAT, drugstore a leader in UI design, recently ran an open innovation experiment. The video below shows the results of the experiment and their take on the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent…
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Mobile Devices Transform Shopping Process (Report)
Nielsen and Yahoo show that mobile devices are transforming the shopping process, hospital according to a new report released within the past several months. The wave of smartphone adoption and growing tsunami of tablets, combined with faster network speeds and better form factors (Please don’t get me started on some of the net books and…
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Worldwide Mobile Application Store Revenue $15 Billion in 2011
Free downloads are forecast to account for 81 percent of total mobile application store downloads in 2011. This percentage has been decreasing since the first launches in 2008, and Gartner estimates free downloads will continue to decrease in 2011, but it will increase again from 2012 through 2014. Users will begin paying for more applications…
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Did Eric Schmidt Jump Or Was He Pushed?
Google’s Q4 2010 results look good, cheap but the big story is the stepping down of Eric Schmidt. Did Eric Schmidt Jump Or Was He Pushed? It sounds like a little of both. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch interviewed Eric Schmidt, Larry Page And Sergey Brin about Eric’s leaving earlier today. Read the full article on…
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Product Development, Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap
Facebook continues to expand its dominance of social networking, clinic as seen in the December 2010 World Map of Social Networks compiled by Vincenzo Cosenza. A brand new map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data* (December 2010): We all suffer…
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Vendormate Lands Growth Investment
Vendormate, shop Inc. (“Vendormateâ€), online the leading hospital supply chain and credentialing solution, today announced a significant investment from Primus Capital (“Primusâ€). This investment demonstrates the company’s commitment to growth and desire to win the vendor credentialing and compliance monitoring space in healthcare and across additional verticals. Vendormate’s flagship product, Vendormate VISIONTM, is used daily…
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Interest is high, but few brands take loyalty to mobile devices
 As smartphones and the mobile internet increase penetration among Americans, illness shoppers are relying more on their phones while out and about to get product, cost store and price information to help them make decisions. Loyalty programs can also be tied to mobile, physician giving customers an easy way to access points and coupons—and retailers…
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Dell to Acquire SecureWorks
SecureWorks’ Security-as-a-Service Solutions Expand Dell’s Services Portfolio with Industry-Leading Enterprise Protection ROUND ROCK, medicine Texas–Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SecureWorks® Inc., phlebologist a globally recognized provider of information-security services. SecureWorks’ industry leading Security-as-a-Service solutions include Managed-Security Services, dosage Security and Risk Consulting Services and Threat Intelligence. The acquisition expands…