Monday February 6, 2012

Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise

According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight into enterprise [...]

Guidewire Hits The Public Market Running; Shares Jump 30% In Early Trading

While there were some big IPOs in 2011, Zynga and Groupon among them, overall it was a disappointing year for IPOs. Will 2012 be any different? As the first tech IPO of the new year, Guidewire Software certainly hopes so. Back in September, the insurance software company joined MobiTV, Angie’s List, Brightcove, and Jive, filing [...]

Gartner: Social CRM Market Will Reach $1B In Revenue By 2012

There’s more good news for the growth of the social enterprise. Gartner is reporting today that the social customer relationship management (CRM) market is forecast to reach over $1 billion in revenue by year-end 2012, up from approximately $625 million in 2010. Worldwide social CRM is projected to total $820 million in 2011. Gartner says [...]

Deloitte ranked top in strategy, current offering and market presence for risk consulting and information security

In a new report, "The Forrester Wave™: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010," Forrester Research ranked Deloitte number one in all three important categories that were evaluated in the research: current offering, strategy, and market presence. In the report, Forrester analysts place a particular emphasis on the consulting firm's strong client focus, technical expertise, [...]

Survey Says… DIY Market Research Firm GutCheck Scores $2 Million In Series A Funding

On AMC’s Mad Men, whenever ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce needs qualitative market research they arrange a focus group, usually a small collection of women, with the ad executives looking on via a two-way mirror. Now, more than forty years later, many companies are still relying on similar methods: expensive in-person panels, which can [...]

Global Marketing Resources, Inc. to Invest $1 Million into Local Technology Job Market

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL  Dunedin-based Global Marketing Resources, Inc. – developer of the KABUUM™ online interaction platform – has announced the creation of at least 10 high tech jobs in Tampa Bay. The US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in the past 12 months, Information Technology jobs in the metro area of [...]

Ebyline Launches As A Market For Freelance Journalists And News Syndication

Can a ragtag group of former newspapermen from the L.A. Times help newspapers fight off the content farms of the Web? The founders and backers of Ebyline, which has been in private beta for a few months and launches today more broadly, think they can streamline the way news organizations manage freelancers and syndicate their [...]

IE continues to lose market share

Microsoft Continues to Lose Browser  Market Share!!!Vista Dead In Its Tracks – Windows 7 Does Better?           The summary findings in Janco’s Browser and OS Market Share White Paper are: Firefox challenged Microsoft as no other competitor has done in quite some time but Microsoft seems to have addressed this The SmartPhone market has taken [...]

Gartner names Accenture 2009 EMEA market share and revenue leader

Leading analyst firm Gartner has named Accenture the 2009 western Europe leader in market share and revenue in three key solution categories: operations system support, billing systems support and service delivery platform. Gartner released this ranking in a report entitled "Market Share: Telecom Operations Management Systems (BSS, OSS and SDP), EMEA, 2007-2009," authored by Martina [...]

IDC Projects 19.8% PC Market Growth In 2010

IDC reports impressive year-over-year growth for global PC shipments of 27.1% in the first quarter of 2010, which has prompted the company to revise its projection for the entire year. In light of slow but certain economic recovery, IDC now foresees 19.8% growth in 2010, according to its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Unlike most of [...]