Salesforce.com Steps into the Main Arena

Today, Salesforce.com (Nasdaq: CRM) announced the acquisition of an OnDemand Content Management SaaS company, Koral, which is a Web 2.0 spin on a mainstream enterprise software application: Content Management. I listened to Marc Benioff’s presentation at the Four Seasons this afternoon. Marc and the CEO of Koral demonstrated some funky functionality, touting Unstructured Data Management

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Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 2)

Here Tom discusses his transition into SunPower. He also provides some basic information about the solar power marketplace. SM: How far along was SunPower at the time? TW: It was 60% owned by Cypress, and they were at the prototype stage. They were prototyping the high efficiency solar cell for the target market it was

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McGraw-Hill: Beating the Street

McGraw-Hill is a leading provider of information services and serves the education, financial services, and business information markets. The Company is a major publisher of newsletters, magazines and printed books. It also distributes its information services over the Internet and other digital platforms, through trade shows and conferences and also through wireless and on-air broadcasting.

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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 2)

Here Sass discusses his educational background, with a particular emphasis placed on his High School education which he received in Israel. Additionally, he covers the early years of his career. The disparities he notes between High School education in the United States and other parts of the world is another item of interest. In many

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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper – (Part 3)

By Lance Glasser, Guest Author [Part 2] We are seeing the research and development needed to stay at the leading edge of the semiconductor business increase steadily over the last few years. This has driven a consolidation of R&D into fewer bleeding edge players. This same phenomenon has also resulted in increasing buying power for

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Bollywood Screenplays

At the turn of the century, I came to the conclusion that film is one of the most powerful mediums to affect change. That’s when, I started taking some courses in (Hollywood-style) screenwriting. This year, Al Gore has proved how effective a well-crafted film can be in conveying a message to a very large number

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Sam Zell’s Blunder

AT the heels of his $13 Billion acquisition of Tribune, Sam Zell put his big foot in the mouth by saying: “If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?” Zell said during the question period after his speech. “Not very.” The statement shows

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Stupid AdSense Ads

For a long time now, I have been watching how badly AdSense judges what Ads my audience might be interested in viewing. Today, this has reached a level of hilarity that I couldn’t resist commenting on! Google has pushed Exotic Hardwood Flooring to my business audience of entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and analysts. Talk about a

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