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When Howard Schultz came on board with Starbucks in 1982, he advised the company to evolve its business from coffee beans and accessories to coffeehouse culture and espresso by the cup. The idea was initially met with rejection from company founders. Given Starbucks’ meteoric rise since then, the rest is history, with the lesson...
Between TED talks, the wild popularity of PechaKucha and the multi-million-view results for such videos as Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford, there’s good reason to think we should be entering a new Golden Age of Public Speaking. (That’s as opposed to what it would replace, the PowerPoint Age, which probably isn’t so...
Making its public debut with the release of the HTC Dream/G1, Google’s Android mobile operating system has provided the search giant with a massively successful mobile ecosystem that, whilst doesn’t directly generate revenues through licensing, it provides smartphone manufacturers with a free, powerful and customisable software platform – generating millions of dollars in sales –...
At any company level, the board of directors has a direct impact on the organization’s product strategy, hiring, fundraising and much more. And startups have to be very selective in choosing board members who will advise the company in the right direction. In the big company realm, both the media and the company’s shareholders...
May 26th, 2011, probably won’t strike you as a particularly notable date in history. But that was the day that heralded a fair few changes in the way mobile phone contracts operate in the UK. As we reported at the time, a number of regulatory changes were brought in on May 26th, as a...
TV is moving to the cloud. It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet. Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when it comes to distributing traditional TV shows and movies to Internet-connected screens. YouTube keeps grabbing more of our attention,...
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The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) markets are growing faster than ever. But sometimes it seems like startups base their infrastructure decisions on a popularity contest or random selection. Among the two gorillas in the cloud space, some developers swear by Amazon, others think Azure is the best,...