Appli Société Générale Androïd. “The New York Times” Chrome Web App Remodels the Online Newspaper. Google just unveiled the Chrome Web Store, making tons of highly optimized web apps available to users of Google Chrome (or the latest versions of Safari or Firefox 4 beta).
One of the apps that was showcased at the Google event earlier this afternoon was The New York Times for Chrome. The app, which was built using HTML5, manages to deliver a really fantastic reading experience. Does Collaboration Really Impact Business Performance? Can collaboration really impact business performance in some sort of a meaningful way?
All signs point to yes. If you're in the collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, knowledge management space, then you should be aware of a few reports that Frost & Sullivan have published on the business impact of collaboration. The first report was based on a study conducted in 2006 and the second report was based on a study conducted in 2009.
The BIG SHIFT to online for financial products: Google Finance research. At their annual ThinkBanking event last Thursday (Sept 9th) in Sydney, the Google Financial Services Team released their latest behavioral research supported by Global Reviews’ Customer Experience Benchmarking.
The results are a shock to those expecting traditional marketing methods to strongly influence customer behavior in respect to product selection in the financial services space. Barney Pierce, the Head of Industry – Finance for Google in Australia articulated that the research “shows a fundamental shift toward the online channel dominating research for financial products and services.