On November 19, 2010

Salesforce.com Riding High on Cloud’s Success

Salesforce.com stock shares soared 17 percent Friday morning to an all-time high in response to its fiscal third-quarter earnings report released Thursday afternoon. In the report, Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said he believes the company will

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Microsoft’s Smartphone Disasters Are Piling Up — and That’s a Bigger Industry Problem

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is getting slapped around in the market. Although the company made some mistakes, the real culprits are the hardware vendors and sloppy business-as-usual attitudes.

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On November 19, 2010

A New Internet Bubble: Why “Content Farm” News Sites Face an Inevitable Crash

If you were looking for a new internet bubble -- akin to the one that imploded in 1999/2000 -- then look no further than content farms, the online "news" sites that churn out dozens of posts per day.

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Success Is A Head Game

Negative press, positive press. Motivational books, lectures and conferences. Coaches, consultants and mentors. There just isn’t any shortages of resources to push you forward. Many of my colleagues and peers absolutely believe in the law of the universe. Each of

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Hospital Horror Tales Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Medicare

The new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is on the right track in reforming care delivery, but it also needs to focus on hospital safety. With medical errors implicated in 180,000...

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Paycheck Fairness Act: Good Riddance

The Paycheck Fairness Act didn't muster enough votes to make it to the floor of the Senate. I, for one am thrilled. Here's why this was bad legislation in the first place.

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Coda for Coda: Can It Survive Its CEO Resignation and an EV Production Delay?

Coda is delaying its battery sedan into the second half of 2011, and says it wants to make tweaks to its car. It should use its breather to fully strategize a marketing plan that can succeed in an...

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MySpace Turns to Facebook to Get Its Groove Back

MySpace and Facebook -- bitter enemies until Facebook left MySpace far in the dust -- have announced new and tighter integrations between the two. The announcement constituted a tacit, but completely unnecessary, concession by MySpace that the

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Los Angeles Auto Show: Fiat 500 Hits the Ground Running

Like some drama with your new-product launch? Chrysler and Fiat just named 130 U.S. dealerships for the Fiat brand, less than two months before they're supposed to start selling the Fiat 500.