Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: And turn it all into products? Frank: Well, not so much turn it into anything in particular. I have a feeling that there is a lot of stuff that is either very old and not in sync with business, or of very limited

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Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: My favorite situation is when I have a founder who is strong in technology, but also has enough business acumen to be the CEO. That is when we have the strongest team, where you’ve got a tech person who’s essentially the CEO/CTO. The first 12 to

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Will RIM End Up In Dell’s Arms?

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) was counting on the BlackBerry Playbook to pull them out of their downward spiral. But there was only a lukewarm reception to the Playbook, and RIM’s future continued to look glum. Gartner estimates that Apple’s iOS will continue to dominate the worldwide media tablet market through 2015. iOS will account for 69%

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2011: Happy Grasshopper, Safety Harbor, Florida

Staying in touch with past and present customers is important. In today’s business environment, this means that having an effective email marketing campaign is equally important. Enter Happy Grasshopper, today’s Incubation Radar company. Happy Grasshopper is the easiest way to keep in touch with your sphere, according to founder, Dan Stewart. Its team of writers create

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Building A Billion-Dollar Solar Company: Canadian Solar CEO Shawn Qu (Part 6)

Sramana: It appears that other than Canada, your primary market has been Europe. Shawn Qu: Europe is the leader. We also have very strong sales in the Asia Pacific area as well as in North America. We sell a lot to the U.S. and Canada. We also sell a steady supply into Korea and have

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Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: So, Boom Startup Capital 2010, LLC was the exact name of the entity that took in money, and then invested in each of the 10 companies in the inaugural year, 2010. We took in enough money for the investment and a bit more for expenses. That

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Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, I understand the time zone issue. If you’re doing that kind of interactive customer relationship on every engagement, what is the technology infrastructure that is required? Does the technology collaboration infrastructure that you have put in place support that kind of customer interaction?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: Let me ask you a question on that, although from a slightly different perspective. I recently had a conversation, last week actually with the CIO of Intel, Diane Bryant. Frank: Yes, I know Diane. Sramana: She talked about platform as a service at

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