The Comunicano Daily Acquisitions and investments are in the news more and more, demonstratiing that tech companies are a hot item again. Today Spotify moved closer to out Pandoraing Pandora with the purchase of MIT bred The EchoNest. The official release is below, and the story is out everywhere….ON … Read more
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The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday March 4th, 2014
The Comunicano Daily If you couldn't tell that Ellen DeGeneres was pimping for Samsung at the Oscars on Sunday nights telecast, now the jig is up. To those of us with experience in product placement, it was obvious and one can actually question if $20 million was worth … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Monday March 3, 2014
The Comunicano Daily Microsoft is being shaken up. As reported first by Re/Code-story below, and now by others, the changes at Microsoft are not unexpected as I wrote on AndyAbramson.com. The politics inside the company are massive, and the changes are going to come fast. –Now onto the news. … Read more
Winery Diva At Huet-Time To Pass Them Over
I just read a blog post that turned my stomach sour, and after reading it, have come to the realization that some have forgotten their place in the world of wine. And, no, I'm not speaking of the author, but of the winery leardership. Kissack's calm account of the incident says it all. They don't … Read more
2011 Kennedy Point Sauvignon Blanc
Last September on my trip to the Australia and New Zealand I took a ferry ride over to Waiheke Island for a tasting and touring day organized by the Waiheke Island Wine Growers Association. It was a fun ride on the ferry, crossing from Auckland's harbour over to the island that didn't take much time. … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Monday February 3, 2014
The Comunicano Daily Last week's IT Expo was exciting to attend. Crowds were up, the number of exhibitors were up and even the panels seemed to have more speakers. This bodes well for the next couple of TMC events including WebRTC World and this August's Hot event IT Expo-Fall Summer … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday January 28th, 2014
The Comunicano Daily Hello from Miami (Beach) and the 2014 edition of the winter version of iT Expo staged so well by the good folks at TMC. Clients are here, friends are here and everything but the sun is here, as an overcast Miami isn't what was expected. But … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Wednesday January 22, 2014
The Comunicano Daily The year so far has been rather light on major news in my view. CES sucked up a lot of air, the two teams heading to the Super Bowl in New York are not from large TV markets which will drive down the value of the commercials that millions are … Read more
Who Needs A Laptop? I’ve Got the Cloud
It all started with my MacBook Air. Once I had my first one, I started using cloud storage. I had so many different Macs and PC’s that storing files “in the cloud” was more logical than trying to keep files in sync or traveling around the globe with a portable hard drive. Next came the … Read more
Commentary on A Month Without iOS
VC, angel, blogger Brad Feld wrote a very passionate post about his plan to move for a month from iOS to Android on his blog this past week. A day or so later VentureBeat picked up the post and reposted it, and the Twittersphere picked up on it adding greater social amplification. Feld's post has … Read more