SM: Candidly, are there other companies who are executing as well with a strong adoption curve? KL: WebMD has done very well. A big part of their business is consumer, and their growth rate has slowed dramatically.
On January 22, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) reported disappointing Q4 and fiscal year 2008 results, with a ninth straight quarterly loss that was wider than expected. Already reeling under internal problems, the economic crisis is not just the straw, but rather a rock that is breaking the camel’s back.
In 1996, IntraLinks founders Arthur Sculley, John Muldoon and Mark Adams, noticed that the loan syndication market depended on an informal network of couriers, fax machines and email to distribute critical documents. They realized that the process was slow, cumbersome and prone to security problems.
SM: Let’s talk about TAM. You looked at $400 million TAM on the physician side and $14 billion TAM on the pharma advertising side. Now we are looking at $250 billion TAM on the health care administration side. Those are serious orders of magnitude. KL: I think right now we are taking smaller steps. The [...]
Even as companies such as Google, Microsoft and Nokia develop technologies to “write the future of the web” in Kannada, Russian and Nepali, and scholars question whether English will “retain its pre-eminence”, each year millions of people begin to study what is still the official language of organizations as diverse as the European Central Bank, [...]
On January 22, Nokia reported fourth quarter results that missed analyst estimates due to weak consumer spending, currency volatility and credit tightness. Nokia had earlier warned that it is experiencing weak demand, but the actual impact of the dismal global economy was far greater than expected. Q4 profit slumped to the lowest level since 2001, [...]
SM: Is there anything in the software-as-a-service world that you are observing or that you could tie up with? KL: Traditionally all of those IT systems have been client-server types of relationships. All of the newer point solutions emerging are using the software-as-a-service model.
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Does anyone else feel as though things are way more complicated than they have to be? After we read John Maeda’s book ‘Laws of Simplicity’, he quickly became one our heroes as an advocate for simple design. [...]
