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Fitbit rules 50 percent of the world's wearable market

While the wearable band market appears to be strong with 2.7 million units shipped in the first quarter, the smartband market isn’t doing as well. Total smartband shipments didn’t even break half a million in the first quarter, according to Canalys. Fitbit rules 50 percent of the world’s wearable market

Solving for the Dr. No problem with cloud

This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such as the vast 50GB inbox quota that Office 365 offers will, for many, be a breath of fresh air.
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M&A doesn't often work

[S]tudy after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%. The second, less familiar reason to acquire a company is to reinvent your business model and thereby fundamentally redirect your company. Almost nobody understands how to identify the best targets to achieve that goal, how much to pay for them, and how or whether to integrate them. Yet they are the ones most likely to confound investors and pay off spectacularly.
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