Tuesday - May 6, 2008
Chief executive officers worldwide believe major change is coming to the global economy and their businesses, according to IBM's biennial study of CEOs. The executives are are also eager to find ways to keep happy consumers who are increasingly information-savvy and who expect the businesses they buy from to be more socially responsible and green. The technology giant billed its Global CEO Study as the largest effort ever undertaken to gather the thoughts and concerns of chief executives around the world.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
A new study by McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy, has found that data centers are one of the fastest growing and largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Sponsored by the Uptime Institute and released Wednesday at the Institute Symposium: Green Enterprise Computing, the study attributes the increase to the growing demand for digital processing as Internet users conduct business daily online.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
The customer relationship management industry will grow by 14.2 percent this year, Gartner forecasts in a new report, with revenue expected to surpass $8.9 billion. Last year, the CRM industry registered $7.8 billion in global sales, based on preliminary revenue figures.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
Given the powerful double-digit growth of e-commerce during the first decade of the industry, few merchants worried that a payment alternative to credit cards or the well-established PayPal was needed. More recently, however, as e-commerce growth rates slow, the fast-growing, credit card-free alternative Bill Me Later has proven that merchants and consumers alike are hungry for alternatives.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
By some measures, China has tied the United States as the online population leader with its government reporting that the number of Internet users there has soared to 221 million. The figure, reported Thursday by the Xinhua News Agency, reflects China's explosive growth in Internet use despite government efforts to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
Amazon has posted Q1 earnings of $143 million, or 34 cents a share, and revenue of $4.13 billion, handily beating analyst predictions of 32 cents a share on revenue of $4.08 billion. These figures reflect the e-commerce giant's continuing sharp upward trajectory, with earnings rising 37 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago.
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Sunday - April 20, 2008
From the basement of his house in San Francisco, Chris Lindland runs a successful specialty retail business that sells horizontal corduroy pants to customers across the country. Tim Carter turned years of hands-on experience as a building contractor in Ohio into a new career as webmaster of Askthebuilder.com, which in its first year netted him more than four times the income he earned in his best year as a builder.
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Saturday - April 19, 2008
Tonya Carter used to buy cell phone ringtones from her mobile service provider, Verizon Wireless. However, lately she's found a way to bypass her carrier and download them straight from the Web. Carter, a 33-year-old Houston resident, pays about $10 a month for a service called "Thumbplay," which gives her access not only to ringtones but to a gamut of games and graphics.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos in February, according to a comScore report released Wednesday at the annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. The comScore data shows that the number of videos viewed online has risen by two-thirds since February 2007. Roughly 73 percent of Internet users in the U.S. viewed video online in February.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Sales of personal computers continued their growth trends in the first quarter despite the U.S. economic slowdown, according to studies released simultaneously by Gartner and IDC. Notebook sales are driving the PC market worldwide, according to the reports, and there are sharper PC sales in developing markets, such as India and the Asia-Pacific region, than in the U.S.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
The privacy requirements of Internet users can vary widely. Some divulge the most personal details of their lives on blogs and social networking sites; others want to remain as anonymous as possible. Users know they have control over what they push onto the Web -- but what about data that portals and other online giants retain on the back end?
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