Month: December 2016

Blackberry Opts Out

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The leadership at Blackberry continues to amaze me with its inability to turn the company around.  They’ve been at the very least risk adverse at a time when they should have been making brazen moves in order to regain even a slimmer of market share.  Now it seems that they’ve completely thrown in the towel when it comes to the mobile hardware market as they’ve sold global rights to the Blackberry brand to Chinese manufacturer TCL.

The mobile pickings in the US are very slim – iOS or Android; just like our 2-party political system.  We really need a third option.  Hopefully, there’ll be new competition that will totally disrupt the mobile market.

Yahoo! Account Breach!

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It’s just been announced that Yahoo! experienced a data breach that caused more than 1 billion accounts to be compromised.  Hopefully everyone knows not to store or transmit sensitive information on ‘public’ email systems, meaning email providers that give you a ‘free’ account as they’re often the target of hackers.  Also your emails are searched for marketing and sales opportunities.  In any regards, if you have a Yahoo! account, keep a lookout for suspicious activity – and consider moving on to a different platform.

The Ever So Dependable Facebook Metrics

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It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Facebook is still discovering and fixing issues with its metrics algorithm.  When the majority of your revenue is comprised of selling advertising, it’s key that your customers trust the product in which they’re investing.  We all understand that Facebook has worked hard to monetize a difficult product, especially as we move towards a true mobile first world.  As Marketers mull over options for social spend, Facebook will need to reassure the market that their platform is effective in reach, engagement and especially conversion.  And they’ll need to work even harder to regain trust.