Nov 9, 2016 | business, software, web_services
A year ago I wrote about Intuit’s promotion of Quickbooks Online and the bleak long-term prospects for the desktop version of Quickbooks. It’s not really a choice for Intuit; it’s the only way to survive. Intuit’s bet is paying off. It’s good news for Intuit, not good...
Oct 23, 2016 | Azure, business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, web_services
Overwhelm (verb) Defeat completely; give too much of a thing to someone; inundate Microsoft’s roadmap for business apps and services is overwhelming. Good news! It’s also not for you, my loyal small business readers. I’m going to list a staggering number of...
Oct 20, 2016 | business, mail, news, security
Yahoo is in free fall. It is negotiating a sale of its Internet business to Verizon but that sale is in jeopardy, likely at least to be renegotiated to lower the price by one or two billion dollars and perhaps on the verge of collapse into acrimony and lawsuits. In...
Jul 7, 2016 | Android, Apple, business, Chrome, Chromebook, computers, Google, laptops, Microsoft, Windows10
I’m not good at predictions. Tim Cook, the CEO of the largest company in the world, called me a twit during a global presentation a few years ago because I made a poor prediction. (Seriously. Here are the details.) I made a commitment then to avoid sweeping...
May 22, 2016 | Android, Apple, business, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, mobile
On a recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that “people around the world spend on average more than 50 minutes a day using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.” Facebook has more than 1 billion active users every single day, more than 1.6 billion active users every...
Apr 13, 2016 | business, software
Intuit completed the sale of Quicken to private equity firm HIG Capital last week. Longtime readers will recall that Intuit issued a very strange press release in August begging someone, anyone, to take Quicken off their hands. Intuit said it was completely focused on...
