March 29, 2011
Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010
Network World
Jim Duffy writes about the IT acquisition market in 2010.
“The most acquisitive companies in 2010 were Google, which made 27 deals, and AOL and Facebook with nine apiece. In addition to Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, and VMware were most active among IT vendors, IDC found.”
Motorola Atrix 4G to be updated soon; fixes revealed
ZD Net
Rachel King writes about upcoming updates to Motorola’s Atrix 4G smartphone.
“The release isn’t available just yet, but here’s are the improvements that we can expect: improved multimedia experience with Bluetooth devices and the ability to use phone with additional headsets, improved fingerprint reader performance … and improved battery performance for longer battery life.”
Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)
TechCrunch
Mark Suster advises why it may be a good idea for start up companies to blog.
“If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. My suggestion is to blog about your industry. Think Mint.com. In their early days they had an enormously effective blog on the topic of personal financial management. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. They created inbound link juice on topics that drove more traffic to their site. Type ‘personal financial management’ into Google. Mint.com is the second result. Smart.”