Big News of the Day: WebEx Acquisition
This is not something I’m especially qualified to discuss. But I will say that twice in two days with two separate companies that were seeking to brief me this week WebEx was malfunctioning. I’ve...
View ArticleGoogle Presentations a Threat to WebEx?
When I heard the news of Google Presentations my first thought was not: It’s more competition for MSFT as part of the Docs & Spreadsheets suite. The thing that popped into my head was that it’s...
View ArticleGoogle Acquires Video Conf. Company
Here’s the Google Blog post and here’s the company: Marratech. Two thoughts: this plays into my “threat to WebEx” suggestion earlier and may become part of the enterprise version of the Docs &...
View ArticleFAST Launches ‘FASTMedia’ for Publishers
Norwegian enterprise search provider FAST is launching a paid-search platform that publishers (newspapers) can use to auction and serve their own ads and maintain all the ad revenue. The message to the...
View ArticleWSJ: Coming Google Alliance with Salesforce
According to the WSJ (sub req’d): The companies are still hashing out details of a potential partnership, expected to be announced in the next few weeks. But one outcome, these people said, could be a...
View ArticleGoogle-Salesforce Partnership
An extension of their existing AdWords relationship, Google and Salesforce.com are offering a more tightly integrated application or suite of applications to enterprise users and advertisers:...
View ArticleWhat if Google Bought Earthlink?
Some time ago it occurred to me that Google might buy an ISP. It made sense to me then as a potential channel to small businesses. But now it makes even more sense from a variety of perspectives. Let’s...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Enterprise Push
The Guardian reports on CapGemini jumping on the Google Apps bandwagon (at the behest of Google of course): Google has linked up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target...
View ArticleClickable Aims for SMB Market
Clickable is getting a fair amount of press lately. The company is a kind of analytics tool and dashboard for ad network and SEM campaign management. I met with CEO David Kidder in New York a couple of...
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