The Comunicano Daily for July 27th, 2015

          The Comunicano Daily       It's the end of July and looking at the news last week surrounding Apple and Wall Street and one could think that the investors are just being greedy. What we're seeing is why guidance, the method of providing where a company expects to be at the … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for July 24th, 2015

          The Comunicano Daily       Amazon is hot and turned a profit but the real story is how they are growing in their cloud business and at getting people to buy into their Prime service.         Why investors suddenly want a piece of Amazon Amazon's stock just … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Monday July 13th, 2015

        The Comunicano Daily       There is no question that technology is changing civilization, life and the law as we know it. All one has to do is realize that services like AirBnB back when they were just BnB's were tolerated and operated under the radar of most regulatory bodies and … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Thursday July 9th 2015

        The Comunicano Daily       Business Rockstar host Ken Rutkowski dubbed Comunicano's Senior Strategist, Bill Ryan, "The Master of the Message" and I often refer to Bill as "Senor Story" as Bill has refined the art of the story with his 20 plus year deployment of "The Architecture of Identity" to a razor sharp focus around … Read more

Charter Getting Time Warner Cable-What It Could Mean

If all goes as planned, the acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications will bring with it the usual cable industry merger side affect. Cable swaps. Cable swaps occur whenever one company merges with another and there are pieces and parts that just don't fit. A perfect example is in my area of San … Read more

Verizon and AOL-Monday Thoughts

Verizon is in the final throes of acquiring the modern day AOL. And while Google, and likely a few others are in the wings, unless something last minute happens AOL for the second time will be acquired by a legacy company from the old school era who is looking to move fully into the digital … Read more

Taking Stock of Dimension Data

The group of analysts and media assembled at the Dimension Data Perspectives 2015 are all a day and a half into the full two day gathering. Without question it is an “A” list of the who’s who from IDC, Forrester, Gartner Nemertes, Ovum, UC Strategies and more along with a smattering of key media and … Read more

WhatsApp Voice Is For Real

I’m in Prague for the Dimension Data Perspectives 2015 Analyst event and had to catch up with a friend in Melbourne. We usually talk using Viber and text between that and WhatsApp. After a 10 minute of so text exchange I just called her, using the new VoIP functionality inside WhatApp for the first time. … Read more

39 Is A Great Number

39. That's the number of companies that my agency and I have been involved in that have exited in the last 15 years. Tomorrow on the AIM, the junior market of the London Stock Exchange has Verseon, going public at a 310 million pound valuation. That makes the company's street value over $450 million dollars, … Read more