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Sonos Adds Top Microsoft Executive to Its Board of Directors

August 20, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Sonos, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO) announced this week that they are adding a new member to their Board of Directors. In fact, they even increased the size of the Board to make room for this new addition. The news surprised – and impressed – many market observers, as the person they are adding is Panos Panay, a top Microsoft Corp. executive. You see, if you are not familiar with Panay, there is something special about his background that makes him an intriguing addition to the Sonos Board.

Learn more about this Sonos recruitment…

[Read more…] about Sonos Adds Top Microsoft Executive to Its Board of Directors

Filed Under: Financial, Management, Manufacturers, News, People, Strategy Tagged With: Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Sonos, Sonos Inc

Polls: Facebook Faces a Major Trust Crisis

March 29, 2018 by Ted Leave a Comment

Stunning Reversal for Once-Loved FANG Brand

Facebook finds themselves square in the middle of a political and public relations fire storm, as news of the firms connection to Cambridge Analytica and the harvesting of the personal data on at least 50 million Facebook users, including perhaps you and I, have recently received a lot of news coverage. Now word comes via two new polls that the company’s brand has taken a serious hit in the eyes of their users and former fans.

See more on these latest polls about Facebook from Reuters/Ipsos… [Read more…] about Polls: Facebook Faces a Major Trust Crisis

Filed Under: Brands, Consumer Trends, Crime, Law, News, Pivot Point, Research, Survey Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Yahoo

Things Are Heating Up in Dallas

October 15, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

cedia logoDallas is hot right now – really hot – as in daily temperatures in the mid-90s. This is a shocking change from the cooling New England Fall now engulfing our home base. But it’s about to get even hotter as the nation’s custom integration community comes together for its annual pilgrimage, the pilgrimage known as Expo.

See more on the the pilgrimage known as Expo… [Read more…] about Things Are Heating Up in Dallas

Filed Under: Associations, Brands, News, Shows & Events, Tech Trends Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Atmos, Auro 3D, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, Dallas, DIY, GoldenEar, Google, James Loudspeakers, Microsoft, Sharp, Vincent Bruno

Taiwan’s Foxconn Looks to Build Factories in the U.S. – Six States Compete for Selection

January 29, 2014 by Ted Leave a Comment

Foxconn logoFoxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese company with manufacturing plants in China, and the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics – is looking to build one or more factories here in the U.S. The company, mostly known as the primary manufacturer of Apple’s popular iPhone, is in negotiations with Arizona and Colorado, according to a report by Bloomberg. But four other states have thrown their hats into the ring as well.

See more on this turn of events, a Taiwanese company building factories in the U.S…. [Read more…] about Taiwan’s Foxconn Looks to Build Factories in the U.S. – Six States Compete for Selection

Filed Under: Asian Connection, Management, Manufacturers, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: Amazon.com, Dell, Foxconn, Hewlett-Packard, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., HP, Microsoft

Panasonic Gives the Back Seat to Consumers, at the Consumer Electronics Show

January 7, 2014 by Ted 1 Comment

Photo from Panasonic Press ConferenceOne of the bigger surprises on Press Day (the day before the show opens) at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was the Panasonic press conference. We were quite surprised when Panasonic opened their press conference at the consumer electronics show, talking at length about their non-consumer businesses.

Their official tag line at the event…Panasonic A Better Life. A Better World…seemed very generic and not particularly entertainment linked. But the more interesting tag phrase that we heard several times throughout the presentation was – Panasonic is more than a TV company…seemed to suggest that the company was distancing itself from its consumer TV business. Or at least, re-prioritizing their business segments as they spent the first several minutes of their presentation talking government, security, and commercial applications for Panasonic technology.

See more from this surprising Panasonic presentation… [Read more…] about Panasonic Gives the Back Seat to Consumers, at the Consumer Electronics Show

Filed Under: Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: 4K, Abbey Road, Aupeo, CES, DTS, Intel, Life+, Lumix, Microsoft, Panasonic, Tough Pad, Ultra HDTV

Somewhere…Steve Jobs is Smiling

September 3, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Steve JobsToday, we learned that Microsoft Corp. is acquiring Nokia Corp.’s mobile phone and services business in a deal valued at $7.2 billion. This news seemed to be a real surprise to many who have viewed Microsoft’s mobile efforts (i.e. Windows Phone) as weak at best. This news follows Google’s move in 2011 to acquire Motorola’s mobile hardware business. What’s this all about? Well at least in part, it shows that Steve Jobs was right all along…

See why – somewhere – Steve Jobs is smiling right now… [Read more…] about Somewhere…Steve Jobs is Smiling

Filed Under: General Topics Tagged With: Apple, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Lumia, Microsoft, Nokia, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs

Is It Time to Start a Deathwatch on the Industry’s Annual CES?

January 23, 2013 by Ted 9 Comments

strata-GEE's Show Report LogoIt is now late January and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is well into our rear-view mirror. Yes, as in other years, there has been a flood of publicity and tons of articles on gadgets introduced at the show. The show’s promoter, the CEA, has already crowed about the event being the biggest ever and all seems well. Or is it?

See the warning signs that the CEA seems to be ignoring… [Read more…] about Is It Time to Start a Deathwatch on the Industry’s Annual CES?

Filed Under: Associations, Manufacturers, Marketing, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: 4K, CAS, CEA, CES, COMDEX, Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Show, David Pogue, Display Central, Forbes Magazine, Forrester Research, James Bond, James McQuivey, Kodak, Las Vegas, Microsoft, New York Times, Norbert Hildebrand, OLED, Richard N. Velotta, Snooki, UHDTV, Vegas Inc

Onkyo Forges Global ‘Strategic Collaboration’ with Imagination Technologies Group

November 15, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Out of Tokyo, Japan this past Monday came word of a new global strategic collaboration between Onkyo Corporation, U.K.-based Imagination Technologies Group, and Imagination’s consumer division known as Pure. A global technology creator, Imagination Technologies Group largely focuses on multimedia, cloud, mobile, and connected audio technologies – often licensed to major consumer brands as part of their product offerings.

See more on this technology agreement…and what it portends for future Onkyo products… [Read more…] about Onkyo Forges Global ‘Strategic Collaboration’ with Imagination Technologies Group

Filed Under: Asian Connection, Brands, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Adobe, CSR, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu, Google, Imagination Technologies Group, Intel, LG, Microsoft, NAVTEQ, Onkyo, Pure, Realtek, Renesas, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Texas Instruments

Sometimes…You’ve Just Got to Jump

June 1, 2012 by Ted 3 Comments

If you’ve been following the flow of articles and postings about our forced transition from Leaping From a High Diving Platformwww.stratecongroup.com to www.strata-GEE.com, you know that I was scared to death about making this change – literally losing sleep and enduring a wide variety of gastrointestinal issues (I’ll spare you the gory details). Why?

[Read more…] about Sometimes…You’ve Just Got to Jump

Filed Under: Marketing, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: 1+1.com, ALERT, BEACON, brave, comfort zone, GoDaddy.com, intuition, leap of faith, Microsoft, strata-GEE.com, Stratecon

The Apple Report – Ripe or Rotten?

February 16, 2012 by tjgreen82 Leave a Comment

apple-logo<February 15, 2012> While Wall Street has been oooing and aaahhhhhing over Apple, Inc.’s stock breaching a significant price of $500 per share earlier this week…only to drop below it again in trading today (closing at $497.67)…there has been a slew of significant Apple-related stories in today’s news on several major fronts. We offer below a summary of these significant stories from today’s press: [Read more…] about The Apple Report – Ripe or Rotten?

Filed Under: Asian Connection, Brands, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, News, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Apple, Auret van Heerden, bankruptcy, China, cross-licensing, Fair Labor Association, FLA, Foxconn, Gartner, HTC Corp., Kodak, market share, Microsoft, Nokia, patent infringement, smartphone, streaming video, Windows phone

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