Most business owners think of e-commerce in the most common use case—augmenting or replacing brick and mortar with online retailing. Canadian companies like Shopify and Tulip Retail are betting big and jockeying to be the trusted provider that guides brick and mortar establishments into the modern omni-channel marketplace. In 2012, Parliament’s Standing Committee on Science, …
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Apple’s Evil Empire
Apple isn’t evil, of course. They do what every for-profit corporation strives to do: maximize shareholder value, drive revenues, and defend their intellectual property. But the way in which Apple does this screams schoolyard bully. Apple has a long history in the consumer electronics and software industries, having launched the year after Microsoft (the latter was …
MicroSkype – $8 Billion Later
Last week when all the rumours about a bidding war for Skype between giants Facebook and Google were flying around the web, I, like many people, was envisioning a Skype module built into Facebook in order to enhance their existing (and rather rudimentary) chat application. The marketer in me was also salivating over the prospect …
AT&T Purchases T-Mobile USA for US$39 Billion
Earlier this afternoon, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom AG announced that AT&T will be purchasing T-Mobile USA in a US$ 39 billion deal that includes both cash and stock. Undoubtedly, there will be lots of talk about how the deal improves profitability for AT&T, as well as service and access to advanced technologies for the customers …
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Competition… Period?
As entrepreneurs, directors, CEOs, and managers, we have an ingrained notion that cash is king and competition is the lifeblood of the free market. I won’t argue those points, not one bit. Cash IS king, and competition IS the lifeblood of the free market. But, competition is taken a bit too seriously by many of …