Yesterday, I was forwarded the following email, with a note asking me if I planned to comment on it: Hey you, here comes Chaka Fatta. Hopefully this will not pass, but if it does, we will have a 1% on all credit card charges. ON JANUARY 1, 2013, THE US GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING EVERYONE TO ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 03:53

Guest post written by Shawn McLaren Shawn McLaren is CEO of ConnectAndSell. Google the phrase "B2B social selling" and you'll get more than seven million hits, most of them singing the praises of Sales 2.0, a world where nurturing connected customers leads to buying without all the mess of actual selling. The wisdom of this ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:24

Price to book shows a mild premium while price to sales of 2.35x shows a discount to the 2.43 industry average. What aggressive growth investors will key on is the revenue growth of 35% for the fiscal year that ended in December 2011.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 16:27

This is an interesting way of looking at the whole cost issue around solar panels and solar power prices. I?m not sure that I entirely believe it but it is an interesting way of looking at it: Solar panel prices, which have fallen 80 percent in the past three years, can fall further because the ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

So, where did the solar sector?s market cap go? Bernstien Research analyst Michael Parker on Tuesday produced an absolutely devastating report on what has become of the solar stocks. In short, they have as group become incredibly efficient at producing solar cells. And in the process, they have ripped a big hole where the industry?s ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 02:42

Estimates have been rising significantly higher for Royal Bank of Canada (RY) after the company delivered better than expected results for its first quarter.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:55

There's a lot of talk about the lack of women in tech. But where do we begin to solve such a complex issue? Well, right here. Over the next few weeks, The Download will dig in to the key problems, and more importantly, the solutions. Today's topic: women and computer science.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 17:52

Who better to talk with about South By South By Southwest than the founder of a concert-finding service? Here are some of Hogarth's observations on the weeklong music extravaganza.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 00:27

Just because the PS Vita has a 3G option, does not make it a smartphone. But if Sony wanted a mobile OS that was 100% under their control, the Vita is a pretty good starting point.

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 17:17

At a recent "insiders" event at headquarters, the company confirmed that it was revamping its search algorithms to make better use of semantic web. That's "geek speak" for teaching a computer to understand the context of what you're searching. Over the last few years, has been pretty good at figuring this out and serving up ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 00:41