The new world of work: How mobile technology is transforming the way small businesses do business - The Fire Hose. The following post is from Thomas Hansen, Vice President, SMB Worldwide, Microsoft.
The office has changed. Yesterday’s workplace was a different place. Look at the TV series “Mad Men” and you see that we’ve come a long way. No instant messages, no email, no video conferencing, no collaboration tools. That was an era of largely manual processes and lengthy project execution. Once a luxury reserved for only large companies, technologies such as cloud and mobility are now available and affordable to even the smallest businesses. SMB mobility in actionIn my current role, I meet with small businesses from every part of the globe. And the best part? Giving your business the flexibility to be always-on also lets you be more responsive to your customers and improve communication among your employees.
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Print advertising has given way to innumerable online publications. Radio has become Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes. People don’t have to watch TV, absorbing carefully targeted commercials. Mobile Image Recognition Could Revolutionize Ecommerce. Posted by jtolman to on November 14th, 2013 Innovation and growth in ecommerce is progressing faster than ever and pushing the limits from the World Wide Web to the world around us.
How Small-Business Owners Are Using Mobile Technology. Some 66% of small-business owners are using mobile devices and/or mobile solutions as part of their operations, according to a recent report from Constant Contact.
Of those small-business owners using mobile devices, 73% said they use their phones or tablets to conduct social media marketing, and 71% said they use their devices to conduct email marketing. When asked what types of mobile/social advertising they currently employ, 97% said they use social media platforms like YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. China's e-commerce goes mobile in 2014.
Julia Q. Zhu is the founder of Observer Solutions, a China-focused e-commerce consulting and research firm. Ms. Zhu specializes in e-commerce and technology research in China and the Asia-Pacific region. She formerly held management roles for Alibaba Group. Prior to that, she worked for iResearch in Beijing, a Chinese internet research and advisory firm. On November 11, China’s largest online shopping festival – the equivalent of Cyber Monday in the US – took place. These massive numbers made news headlines around the world. Six global trends shaping the business world - Rapid technology innovation creates a smart, mobile world.
Key questions for global companies Are you developing innovations faster than your competitors? If not, how serious is the risk of losing your competitive advantage if a competitor provides a disruptive offering? Are you satisfied with your ability to leverage newer technologies such as social media and cloud-based services, analytics, security and privacy and virtualization solutions? Are you confident you have the right level of investment in intelligent data-mining capabilities, such as business and behavioral analytics? Do you have a strategy for gaining competitive advantage through better data use? “Ten to 20 years from now, we may look back on the present as the dawn of the Smart Era: a time when rapid and continuous innovation changed almost everything about the way we live.”Patrick A. Summary: Smart technology offers the promise of remote access to health care and education, while blurring boundaries between industries.
Specifically, we expect to see the following changes: 10 Surprising Facts About Mobility Growth. Driving Business Success With Technology Mobility / 10 Surprising Facts About Mobility Growth 10 Surprising Facts About Mobility Growth 0 2 Google +0 0 The interest in mobile devices will accelerate rapidly over the next several years, according to research recently released by Ericsson.
The resulting Ericsson Mobility Report reveals that overall data traffic will grow twelvefold through the end of 2018, and that LTE (long-term evolution) will dominate coverage by that time. Lenovo Recommends 15 Steps to Reducing Security Risks in Enterprise Mobility Download Now 1 of 11 10 Surprising Facts About Mobility Growth On the Move Mobile subscriptions have reached 6.4 billion, 8% higher than a year ago. prev next Dennis McCafferty is a freelance writer for Baseline Magazine. Submit a Comment There are no comments for this article yet. Manage your Newsletters: Login Register. Apple to Build Mobile-Payments Service, Report Says. Apple is preparing to expand its presence in the mobile-payment space, according to a new report.
Eddy Cue, the company's senior vice-president of Internet software and services, has met with "industry executives" to discuss Apple's role in handling payments for physical goods and services, The Wall Street Journal reported. WSJ also said Jennifer Bailey has been promoted from her role running Apple's online store to a new position focused on building a payment business.
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