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ACCO Brands will pay $340M to acquire Seattle-area game controller company PowerA

GeekWire

PowerA, founded in 2009, produces third-party hardware and accessories for the console and mobile gaming market, such as chargers and screen protectors. It expects net sales of approximately $200 million in 2020, a 20% increase over 2019, and profit of $50 million. — PowerA Gaming (@PowerA) November 11, 2020.

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. AppDeployer leverages a platform engine licensed from Virtual Global. ► 2009.

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Logo competition for DataPortability.org: how to get the best - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This being a highly prominent initiative that is potentially enormously valuable to the whole ‘net community should attract some talented people. However Chris has also got a whole host of prominent people and companies who support the initiative to kick in prizes, to in fact make this a very attractive proposition to the winner.

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2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « DataPortability looks set to massively increase the value of the Net to users | Main | Digg, DataPortability, and business models » 2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0

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APML gains momentum – this could transform the personalization of advertising - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The first that springs to mind is a potential reinvigoration of the concept of infomediaries, first proposed by John Hagel in 1997 in his Harvard Business Review article The Coming Battle for Customer Information and later amplified in his 1999 book Net Worth. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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The days of mass media are over - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Broadcast is an extremely apposite moniker – it throws its net widely, and catches many unappetising and worthless fish for every one that is potentially of value. The real death-knell for mass media as we know it is advertisers’ desire for targetted advertising with measurable outcomes. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

ERP pains are a recurring illness for Invacare, which also had problems with an earlier upgrade between 2005 and 2009. That meant a decline in sales across the board, inefficiencies in processing and shipping, and an inability to increase prices in line with costs, leading to a $5 million drop in net profit in the quarter.

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