Posted in January 21, 2010 ¬ 11:28 am.DBTA Editor
Many companies may have enterprise data warehouses and the latest
analytical technologies, but the capabilities are not employed to their
full potential. Often, a change in organizational culture and governance
is required to make the most of these solutions.
Such was the challenge for Gap, Inc. At the recent National Retail
Federation show in New York, Mike Jones, Senior VP [...]
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Posted in January 13, 2010 ¬ 12:55 pm.DBTA Editor
Google drew a line today – delineating just how far it will not go in compromising privacy and in supporting censorship. Whether this is simply a public relations ploy for today’s “news cycle” or a genuine delineation of the limits of American-Sino economic development will be determined in the weeks and months ahead.
Will the Chinese [...]
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Posted in December 3, 2009 ¬ 1:05 pm.DBTA Editor
The Wild West era of the Internet has been slowly winding down in recent years. The seminal event may have been the beat-down the music industry played on Napster. But the past several weeks have been even more interesting. It turns out that Murdoch and Microsoft are planning something quite innovative – that frankly represents a classic disruptive approach to the Internet. As pretty much everyone has learned, the plan is to limit access to Murdoch’s news content to searches conducted through Microsoft’s Bing search engine. We assume Microsoft will pay Murdoch an unspecified royalty for that content, or for the number of users accessing it, or employ another similar usage-based payment schedule. What does that mean?
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