Archive for February 24th, 2010
Fifty million. That’s how many tweets Twitter users send every day. It’s the latest stat in a micro-blogging growth story that has taken the social-media world by storm. But as corporations and celebrities join the fray, cybercriminals are lying in wait with spam scams.
Kevin Weil of Twitter’s analytics team posted a graph on the company’s blog that tells the story of how the service has grown over the past three years in number of tweets created per day — not counting tweets from accounts identified as spam.
The results: Users tweeted 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400 percent last year to 35 million per day. Today, Weil reported, Twitter sees 50 million tweets per day — an average of 600 tweets per second.
“Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there’s search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network ,” Weil said. “Tweets per day is just one number to think about.”
Read the rest of my story on NewsFactor.
February 24th, 2010
What do you get when you combine 600 million searchers with 50 million daily tweets? A new Yahoo-Twitter tie-up. While consumer privacy organizations continue bashing Google about its Google Buzz service, Yahoo and Twitter are partnering on a more benign social-networking play — content sharing.
Yahoo on Wednesday announced the partnership with the popular micro-blogging service that will see real-time Twitter feeds integrated across the Yahoo network. The deal is part of Yahoo’s drive to deliver personally relevant information from various online sources and largely mimics the efforts of Google and Bing.
Read the rest of my article on Sci-Tech Today.
February 24th, 2010
I was reading an interesting article from Karen Condi over at Officing Today. In it, she talked about how technology advancements are making it possible for people to work from just about anywhere in the world. She also speaks of the changing rules of business hours. And she points to virtual offices as an enabler.
Let’s listen in to a bit of what Condi, executive director and principal of Alliance Office Strategies, has to say about the advantages of a virtual office:
“The advantages of a virtual office are numerous but it’s important to fully understand what constitutes a true virtual office. Conceptually, virtual offices started in the mid 1980s, however, the industry has dramatically evolved as technology has changed the way we work.
Read the rest of my story on Davinci Virtual.
February 24th, 2010
Jay Suites is moving on up. The Manhattan-based luxury executive suites company has expanded its Grand Central location operations, adding another floor of office space, and has opened a new location on Fifth Avenue.
Jay Suites isn’t your average business center. The company has made a name for itself with a keen focus on interior design. For example, Jay Suites doesn’t just lease a floor of office space in a prominent New York City location and open its doors to the office-renting public. The company works with architects, contractors, designers, electricians and consultants to optimize the officing experience for its clients.
“Being in a space like this gives us the ability to focus on growing our company and not having to worry about the overhead of opening up a space,” says Lindsay Fox, a partner at an executive search company and a Jay Suites client. “Normally you have to deal with the furniture the move, the receptionist, setting up the phones and internet….we didn’t have to worry about anything.”
Read the rest of my story on aBetterOffice.com.
February 24th, 2010
Want to get away? You don’t need to buy a ticket on Southwest airlines to escape the hustle and bustle of the corporate world – just start working from an executive office suite a little closer to home. That’s Regus’ advice.
While the virtual office industry is making inroads with the promise to let you work from a home office in your PJs while you drink OJ and e-mail BJ, Regus is boldly suggesting that working from home might not be the ideal for every entrepreneur.
Sure, working from a virtual office means you don’t have to commute and you can start and stop when you want, or even pick up work in the middle of the night if you choose. But Regus is offering 10 reasons why you may want to consider serviced office space instead.
Read the rest of my story on aBetterOffice.com.
February 24th, 2010
For all the serviced office grand openings Regus held in 2009 – enough to officially surpass the 1,000 location mark – 2010 may see the executive suites industry giant take a different tack: acquisitions.
Just days ago, Regus acquired three Business Facility International (BFI) business center locations in the France’s Côte d’Azur. With the acquisitions under its belt, Regus now boasts 50 serviced office centers in France.
Specifically, Regus newest office space additions are located in Sophia Antipolis, Nice Arenas Business District. Regus also has existing serviced office locations in Les Espaces de Sophia, the Font de l’Orme district and the Monaco Principality.
Read the rest of my story on aBetterOffice.com.
February 24th, 2010
CA acquired 3Tera today. I caught up with Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, to discuss this and the slew of other mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector. Listen in to part of my interview:
We are seeing so many acquisitions these days…
It seems to be that time of the year. As we are looking at the end of the first quarter, companies are looking back at their performance over the past quarters and making some determinations about how well they can move forward. Others that have either been doing well or have deep pockets…It’s always a good time to keep your eyes open for bargains but there certainly seems to be an awful lot of acquisitions going on right now.
I think it’s hitting the economy is hitting some companies, especially smaller companies, a bit harder than others. The small vendors and specialty vendors it seems to me that when you’ve got a smaller pool of potential clients you are standing on a narrower ledge.
There was an SGI acquisition of a small storage specialist yesterday. SGI, which used to be Rackspace, has become a specialist at finding these highly-focused tech companies that are selling at fire sale prices. They did SGI last year. This company that they picked up for $2 million yesterday had received over $125 million in venture capital funding in the last couple of years. If you are one of those VC investors you are probably feeling a little bruised this morning.
Is the 3Tera a good acquisition for CA?
Whenever you see a deal like this where a company with a fairly broad technology offerings buys a company with a great deal of highly focused expertise, it reflects an ongoing issue in IT and that is, is it cheaper to build or buy? In this case, getting a small company with great people and an existing workable solution set will allow CA to get up and running and into the market much more quickly than it probably could have if it had built its own cloud management suite and GUI.
It looks like a good fit and it certainly is well aligned with CA’s strategy of broadening its very deep and well regarded expertise and data center management out toward the cloud. so it aligns well from a tactical financial point of view and should work very well strategically for the company as well.
February 24th, 2010
