Will Apple’s “Siri” App Effect Your Small Business Multi Channel Marketing Mix?
There’s been many articles floating around about how Apple’s new app Siri will destroy SEO (search engine optimisation) and put many people and companies out of business.
Like many silly articles and videos we hate, XenMedia Solutions has it’s own view on this new app and is normally different from other so-called pros.
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Motorola Xoom 2 Won’t Topple The Ipad 2 This Christmas
It seems as though the new Motorola Xoom 2 will be sold at €399.90 (£342) and is looking to challenge the Ipad 2 this Christmas. Unfortunately, I don’t think its got a chance in hell frankly.
Their potential Ipad 2 beater tablet only shipped a measly 100,000 in the 3rd quarter of 2011. Bearing in mind that Apple sold over 17 million Ipad devices for the exact same period.
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Quantas – How To Destroy Brand Equity In 3 Easy Steps
Quantas, the Australian airline has returned to the skies after it grounded its planes this weekend due to strike action by its employees.
Quantas are in the process of rejigging their operations in Australia. It has unveiled plans to launch two brand new airlines in Asia and is also looking at purchasing new planes.
Their plans are to launch a new premium, Asia-wide service whilst setting up a budget carrier focusing on the profitable Japanese market.
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Nokia Unwraps Their New Lumia Windows phones Powered By Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system
Nokia came out of the traps yesterday, surprised everyone and unveiled their latest apple iphone/android competitor to the marketplace. It introduced the new Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 smartphones on Wednesday.
These new phones will run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system which isn’t the first tie up between these two juggernauts in the tech industry.
Chief executive Stephen Elop presented the new flagship handsets at the Nokia World 2011 conference on Wednesday, saying “Lumia is a new dawn for Nokia”. He also took the opportunity to take a friendly jab at other Windows Phone manufacturers.
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Invest for the long term and gain market share early
One company I like to keep my eye on and study what they do straegically is Amazon (the online retailer). Latest news out today is that:
“Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s escalating pursuit of Apple Inc. squeezed its profit forecast for this quarter, prompting investors to erase as much as $20 billion from the company’s market value in late trading.
Amazon’s operations could lose $200 million in the fourth quarter as costs mount, the Seattle-based company said yesterday. Last quarter’s profit also disappointed analysts, missing estimates by 42 percent — the biggest negative surprise of any technology business in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.”
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Good and Bad News For Small Businesses According To Experian
The sheer number of north west companies which failed recently fell 3.9 % compared to September 2010 but remained the highest outside Greater London and the south east, new figures show.
The latest insolvency index from information services company Experian shows 196 firms went bust in the region last month out of a total of 1,732 nationwide.
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Report: Apple’s iPad Dominance Is Falling – Android Tablets Rising
The Ipad has seen massive growth since its launch in April 2010. Wow, it seems just like yesterday. To be honest, its done really well, bearing in mind most critics had written off its popularity or if consumers were willing to pay the price.
However, its dominate position is under pressure falling from a market share of the tablet market of 96% to 67%.
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Facebook Friend Count Linked to Brain Density – associated with differences in brain structure
Are you one of those people that spend countless hours communicating to family and friends on Facebook? Did you know that you may be adding grey matter to your brain? In essence this is signifies greater density to that part of the brain that’s linked to social skills.
Some may even say that people with larger areas of the brain for social skills may have a higher than average Facebook count.
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BSKYB profits rise – 77000 new customers – while squeezing more out of subscribers
BSkyB strikes again. They’ve had a slowdown in subscriber numbers with a rise in profit. This is definitely bucking the trend.
These guys are experts in bottom line cross-selling balanced by an decent increase in selling products including broadband and telephony to existing customers.
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U.K. Online Grocery Shopping Set to Almost Double in Five Years (2016)
Simply more and more shoppers are using their smart phones and other mobile devices to purchase food online, an industry group said.
It’s a fact that online purchases are set to rise to 11.2 billion pounds by 2016 from 5.9 billion pounds this year, according to a survey by the
Institute of Grocery Distribution. That’s a stonking equivalent to 6 percent of grocery sales in five years, from an estimated 3.8 percent at the end of this year, IGD said.
