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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. For instance, Microsoft bought Avere Systems in January, and Google picked up Anvato in 2016 to woo entertainment companies. We open these doorways.”

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5 Keys To Capitalizing On Nondisruptive Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Not all innovations have to be as disruptive as the Netflix digital download was to Blockbuster’s DVD business. Both authors are recipients of numerous academic and management awards for leadership thinking, and I will summarize here their key strategy insights, combined with my own experiences: Lead with a focus on finding customer value.

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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7 Ways To Foster A Team Culture Responsive To Change

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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Comcast Takes Aim At Online Videos

socalTECH

Cable provider Comcast appears to be taking aim at online video sites, and has demanded that Internet Service Provider Level 3 pay the company fees in order to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast customers.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Central Desktop Sees Growth, Boosts Hires In 2009

socalTECH

Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S.

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