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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints. The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones.

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Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software as companies embrace hybrid work

TechCrunch

For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. ” Launched in 2014, Robin began as a conference room scheduling app. Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. Image Credits: Robin.

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Salesforce Announces new Industries Strategy: With Vivek Kundra Leading The Way

CTOvision

Salesforce.com Announces New Industries Strategy. BOSTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the world’s #1 CRM platform, today announced a new industries strategy aimed at accelerating the company’s growth and transforming the way companies across key industries connect with their customers.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. The market was maturing.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. Because we work with so many brands, we have a lot of senior leadership on each channel level. We routinely meet across departments and share insights.

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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Acquires Open Data Leader Pentaho

CTOvision

Pentaho will continue to execute its current business model under the leadership of Pentaho CEO, Quentin Gallivan, who will report to Kevin Eggleston, HDS senior vice president, Social Innovation and Global Industries. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2013 (ended March 31, 2014) totaled 9,616 billion yen ($93.4

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Are you a social sales pacesetter? Or are you losing business to one?

Strategy Driven

Here are a few questions to get your social sales juices flowing : Why are big companies interested in big data? Why are formerly non-social companies suddenly scouring and analyzing social data? Why is ‘mobile’ the new ‘social?’ Customers are social. You must be at least as social.

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