It’s deja vu all over again. Microsoft is dropping support the Google Talk and Facebook chat integrations fom the Outlook.com email service in the near future. Reminds me of when they… Read more »
Elisa Steele, the former Microsoft and Skype executive who joined Jive in 2013 (see Elisa Steele assumes new role as Jive’s EVP of Strategy and CMO), and who was moved to the… Read more »
Microsoft is trying to clarify what they mean when they say they’re a ‘productivity and platform’ company. Clearly, Microsoft has larger ambitions than so-called productivity apps: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and so… Read more »
Two very different companies — Apple and Microsoft — posted financial results this week. Apple is clearly the iPhone company, selling 35.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending 28 June, a… Read more »
The new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has taken the next step in consolidating power to a small Senior Leadership Team (SLT). He has also made it clear that he is… Read more »
If you were going to create a car company today, who would you look to for inspiration? General Motors? The world beater of the 20th Century, that ‘led global vehicle sales… Read more »
In recent months, I have been outlining the idea that Microsoft’s board of directors might be too tied to the company’s current business strategy to accept a new CEO who might… Read more »
Jive announced today, in widely reported news, that Elisa Steele as the company’s EVP of Strategy and CMO. These are new roles in the company, where… Read more »
I somehow completely missed the release of Mozilla’s Open Badges 1.0 back in March. The concept is an open, federated model for the creation and sharing of badges that represent skills… Read more »
Bloomberg has had serious messaging market dominance for the traders and funds managers whose companies pay the $20,000/year for Bloomberg’s terminals and related services. But the industry has many others that… Read more »