Drew Mize, vice president of product management and marketing at The Pinnacle Corporation wrote a very interesting short piece on PCI Myths that is worth reading. Unfortunately, its only available via the print copy of the magazine for the Association for Convenience and Petroleum Retailing.
Two of the most salient points are first, that it’s the [...]
Check out this link to a news story about some thugs who use ‘thong’ underwear as their disguise in a robbery. Their actions were filmed on video and have been shared with law enforcement.
Thong bandits
If this was filmed using MVaaS, which provides you the ability to save clips, what do you name the saved file? Thong? [...]
By now you’ve had ample time to find the market capitalization for both General Motors and Salesforce.com. Where you surprised?
As of this morning, GM’s market capitalization is approximately $9.8 billion (GM analytics). Salesforce.com, by comparison, is $8.6 billion (Salesforce.com analytics). Note that since market cap. is based on the current share price, the values may fluctuate [...]
I have now employed several measurement techniques to answer our question. But I am surely missing something important. Isn’t there a more appropriate measurement of enterprise size than those presented?
Of course there is, and it is called market capitalization (Salute to Dan Caruso for answering correctly in the comments section). Calculated as the share price times [...]
Yesterday I linked to two recent earnings releases, and asked the question – Who’s bigger?
If you answered “it depends”, you were correct. It is not possible to answer this question without knowing the basis of comparison.
Should the size of an enterprise be based on reveneues? How about profits? Total assets? Number of employees?
In the first quarter of [...]
It is interesting to see how we culturally and socially react and adapt to technological changes, especially those that affect our everyday lives, even if in indirect ways.
Here’s an interesting use of video surveillance… I found this interesting tidbit on slashdot about an unusual method a band used to make a music video.
On May 21, 2008, Saleforce.com released its fiscal first quarter results. A link to the news release is attached.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2008/05/080521.jsp
About three weeks prior, General Motors released its first quarter results.
http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/earnings/index.jsp
Stating the obvious, these are two very different companies. Salesforce.com develops and markets on demand application services, which includes Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service solutions. General Motors, on the other hand, develops, [...]
This is the 3rd post in a series about the three paths a customer can take when trying to deploy video throughout their company: Build, Buy or Subscribe.
This post will address the 2nd path – Buying a video system. This path is by far the most prevelant path chosen by customers, hands down. The reasons [...]
