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It's not often I see news that surprises me, but Facebook paying nearly US$20 billion for an instant messaging app had me scratching my head. People have been paying too much for properties for some time, but this is crazy money for a class of product that stopped being trendy nearly a decade ago. ...
Other factors, such as "support by local government, how centralized the population is, how strong the primary telephone and cable carriers are, and how close the city is to existing Google Dark Fiber," may influence Google's decision, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...
"HP had just lost one CEO, Mark Hurd; its current CEO Mark Apotheker was running all over the place trying to avoid being served by Larry Ellison -- who sought to subpoena him in a lawsuit between Oracle and SAP, where Apotheker had previously been CEO -- and Whitman was new to the board at the time," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...
I spoke last week with a woman who built a house in Belize. Apparently it was burglarized several times. After she moved away, her husband mysteriously died there -- he had stayed to protect the house before they sold it. ...
"This showcases she is still largely in search of a strategy and is operating very tactically and against Google, likely because she'd like to teach them a lesson for passing her up," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I think she's demonstrating why she was passed up instead."
"The difficulty for robotics and China is that would put workers out of work, and much of the government effort in bringing manufacturing to China was to keep that huge population happy so it didn't revolt," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times.
There has been a lot of discussion on the differences between Steve Jobs' Apple and Steve Ballmer's Microsoft, with a common argument being that Apple innovated and Microsoft didn't. I don't think the facts support that. I'd argue that Microsoft out-innovated Apple during Ballmer's tenure, but Apple out-executed Microsoft. ...
"Waze is a premiere navigation product and as its features are brought into Google Maps, it will improve that product significantly," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "That will make it hard for Apple or anyone else to keep up," he told ...
If you look back at what Steve Jobs did, he took a hard look at Porsche and Sony, and then he effectively built a better Sony. As Apple's star rose, Sony's star crashed, but Jobs never targeted Sony directly. He just figured out what Sony wasn't doing right, and he did that extremely well while Sony lost its way. ...
"Microsoft is actually performing well financially -- they just are showing weakness in some of the divisions," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "In that case, bringing someone in from the outside risks breaking more than you fi...
"The difficulty continues to be revenue generation and ad conversion," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Finding a medium that displays news and ads in such a way that people actually purchase stuff remains problematic," h...
"There are a number of ways this could be interesting -- but most would combine an iPad and a MacBook, and Apple wants people to buy both," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Microsoft had a laptop design a few years back that had a dual...
"Google Glass is basically a head-mounted cellphone with a heads-up display and motion/voice interface. It could play games -- particularly augmented-reality games tied to the camera," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "These would be very different an...
"Being able to print using multiple materials and multiple colors widens the utility of the printer, which would mostly be used for prototyping or small-volume parts -- like replacement parts on old cars and equipment, or custom-built solutions -- significantly," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
The purchase will help Google handle the massive amounts of data it handles, which will be sharply increased following its purchase of Nest, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group How Deep Does It Go?...
The new deal IBM and Lenovo announced last week showcases that the companies are on very different paths toward two widely divergent but equally powerful goals in what is a rapidly changing market. ...
"There have been a lot of companies that have tried the freemium model and found that it didn't scale, so they either had to go to a fully free model or fully paid," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Businesses using t...
IBM is putting a massive amount of resources into Watson, which has the capability to dramatically improve the quality of our decisions. Since most don't know how Watson works, I thought it would be interesting to emulate how it might think when tied to a topical subject. As the U.S. approaches its next election circus, two candidates have jumped to the top as both frontrunners and targets. ...
"The problem they're going to have is being credible as a security provider," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "When you're already nervous about something, trust becomes incredibly important -- and how well you know the players that a...
"This brings it up to the Jaguar F Type V8 in terms of both transmission and rear axle, and the engine is putting out between 75 and 125 more power," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "That's clearly world class, super car range, and this should make it the most affordable supercar in the world."
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