Apple Bets on Seamless AI Integration, Not AI Hype

Last month, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) reported its quarterly earnings that outpaced market expectations. A better than expected outlook for the current quarter sent their stock climbing 3% in the after-hours trading session.

Apple Spends AI Dollars Cautiously

Last month, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) reported its quarterly earnings that continued to outpace all market expectations. The market was buoyed by the high demand for the latest iPhone, and that sent the stock climbing 16% in the after hours trading session.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond (Part 4)

SM: What is the impact of Apple in all of this? CG: They’ve changed the browser landscape pretty considerably. They’ve driven HTML 5 shift in the industry and are forcing customers to have to redevelop sites that are moving away from Flash. We haven’t to have client solutions for tools that we roll out that

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If I were an app developer, and I wanted to mash up some Dark Knight content and use Dark Knight characters to build an app or game, today, I have to go through a proper licensing process, correct? David Aronchick: Yes. There are variety of things you would need to do. The unfortunate

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 4)

SM: What percentage of your clients are mobile clients? CR: I would say the mobile phone platforms drive about 60% of our revenue base, 65%. SM: What about media? CR: Media is about 15%. One thing about our company is we only deal with larger media companies. So, it’s a model we’ve perfected over the

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The Effect of Facebook’s IPO

By guest author Daniel Burrus Facebook’s IPO may well be the biggest and most hyped IPO ever … and for good reason. Many people would like to have bought Google or Apple when they first went public, but they didn’t. Now they’re kicking themselves for it. Unfortunately, you can’t go back and undo the past.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Jim Ackerman, Founder of Ackermania Creative (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: And that’s a classic consumer product situation. So, let’s continue. I think we’re in sync. The net of all this discussion is that there’s a certain barrier to entry based on the quality of the videos. The reason I probed a bit is because funny is not the only vector by which you

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2012: GloMantra, Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India

I made a prediction about 2012 being the year when personalization technologies start to find their stride. GloMantra, Inc. is a company that specializes in personalization technology and social commerce solutions for e-commerce and online media companies. GloMantra understands the intent of consumers and the context of their need, and uses them to provide personalized

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