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Flipboard is a social network online aggregation magazine originally designed out of a brainstorming session between founders Mike McCue and Evan Doll. They posed the question to each other, “What would the web look like if it was designed from scratch?”[read more]

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Businesses now ask less sophisticated users to perform analysis and rely on software to help them. In response, Oracle recently announced a new release of its flagship Oracle BI Foundational Suite, as well as updates to Endeca, the discovery platform that Oracle bought in 2011.[read more]

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Today Salesforce announced the launch of Social.com – a social advertising solution that brings the power of Radian6 and Buddy Media (two recent acquisitions made by Salesforce for over $1 billion total that had been floundering looking for a purpose) into an innovative way to use Marketing 2.0.[read more]

New tablet tech on the horizon?

Corning – the "glass company" that came up with the telescope mirror for the Palomar Observatory – has showcased their new, ultra-thin, 100-micron thick, flexible glass. And it could change the shape and form of how next-generation electronics are ultimately designed.[read more]

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Apple’s acquisition of WiFiSlam is getting a lot of attention this week. In a nutshell, WiFiSlam specializes in a technology that allows mobile apps to pinpoint users’ locations through the interaction between their smartphones and standard wifi signals – no GPS need apply.[read more]

SQL is a database query and programming language for retrieving, updating, and managing the data from relational database. Nowadays, SQL is a basic requirement for every programmer. However, there's a disadvantage: SQL is especially designed for technical personnel.[read more]

We’ve talked about the advantages and challenges of making your CRM system your analytics platform and “single source of truth.” In this series of short blog posts, we focus on some of the use cases of apps to integrate data into Salesforce, both obvious and surprising.[read more]

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The Samsung juggernaut widens its lead over Apple; Android tablet updates; Apple releasing new iPad model. And, for the first time (perhaps ever), has BlackBerry finally come up with a product hotter than the iPhone?[read more]

Change in apps leads to change in business processes themselves as more companies move to cloud based apps and realize that they can consume services configured to execute the specific business process.[read more]

Startups that have tried to go head-to-head against the entirety of Craigslist (the “horizontal approach”) have struggled. Startups that have tried to go up against pieces of Craigslist (the “vertical approach”) have been much more successful (e.g. StubHub, AirBnB).[read more]

For the most part, the way dashboards – the status quo for visualizing analytical information – communicate and display information has remained largely unchanged, failing to adapt to the shifting user base for reporting and analytics. This of course, is a big problem.[read more]

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Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables instant payments over the internet. Unlike credit cards and PayPal, Bitcoin has no central authority and no way to lock entire countries out of the network. Merchants who accept Bitcoin payments can do business with anyone.[read more]

How can a company leverage data across multiple sources to gain valuable insight to deliver all the more value to customers and create a sustainable competitive advantage? Whether you are Amazon using big data to create more relevance for your Product Recommendation Engine to drive more sales, or a small start-up looking to create that next killer product, having a big data mindset is critical.[read more]

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Slowly but surely, big data is becoming mainstream.  Of course, if you listened only to the hype from analysts and vendors, you might think this was already the case.  I suspect it's more like teenage sex, more talked about than actually happening.  But, seems like we're about to move into roaring twenties.I had the...[read more]

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” said Sir Winston Churchill at Harvard University in 1943. He frequently spoke of humanity’s minds in descriptions of the future and this is such an important point. It is our brains that give us both the vision for what we want the future to be and the capacity to make that future....[read more]