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		<title>Killing Them Softly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be long until new innitiatives such as Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Direct Publishing Program, Amazon&#8217;s Studios and Google&#8217;s Music Artist Hub shorten the authors-publishers-retailers chain, quietly displacing traditional Media intermediaries. Amazon announced at the begining of November 2010 that John Locke had become the first author without a major publisher to sell more than&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=442&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is more to Innovation than Patents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters has issued their Top 100 Global Innovators list. And, when we compare the conclusions with those of BusinessWeek last year, it&#8217;s clear that there is more to Innovation than patents. This study by Thomson Reuters came up with the most innovative companies and countries, as recognised by the patent offices across the world,&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=451&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Music, and the Desintermediation of the Music Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I wrote here about my impressions about the new RIM BBM Music service, a social feature by nature. And, as I was writing it, Google unveilled its Music service too. Little by little, we are having more details of Google&#8217;s anouncement, which can affect the music industry. In that same note, I pointed&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=419&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIM&#8217;s BBM Music, a new Kid in Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research in Motion (RIM) has recently announced the availability soon in the UK of a new Music offering based on their existing BBM service, BBM Music. Among a list of alternative choices with Amazon, Google, Apple and Spotify, who do they compete with? What is the job that BBM Music would be hired for? And&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=388&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Increase of Android Smartphones in the US</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/the-increase-of-android-smartphones-in-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to comScore, &#8220;Google Android continued to gain ground in the smartphone market reaching 44.8 percent market share&#8221;. Does this mean that Android is definitely winning the smartphone war over Apple&#8217;s iOS? The figures by comScore may suggest so, with Google reinforcing its subscribers marketshare in the US in Sept&#8217;11 at 44.8% (up 4.6 p.p.&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=369&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazon Kindle Fire, a Potential Disruptive Product</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-amazon-kindle-fire-a-potential-disruptive-product-but-less-likely-outside-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several posts appeared during the last weeks about the Kindle Fire, and about the potentially disruptive role that this new device by Amazon would play. One of these posts by Asymco attired my attention because it challenges this potentially disruptive role, and I decided to elaborate on it, to argue about the value of the&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=354&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud Telco Opportunity in the EU</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-cloud-telco-opportunity-in-the-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The potential benefits of Cloud computing for the society are thought to be enormous. Even if some cautious analysts have been preventing of a possible related hype, and predicting a plateau of expectations in 2 &#8211; 3 years time. But the opportunity certainly is there, and the telecommunications service providers are seeing an opportunity there,&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=330&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony and Ericsson, finally time to review their JV?</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/sony-and-ericsson-finally-time-to-review-their-jv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[M&A's and Alliances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had rumours in the past that Sony would buy Ericsson&#8217;s stake in the mobile phone venture. The WSJ has recently talked again about that possibility. The origin of this move should be seen in a will by Sony of providing a more sound marketing strategy, and / or in a will by Ericsson&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=316&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When emerging companies compete in the Western world</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/when-emerging-companies-compete-in-the-western-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of literature about how to make business in China. Lots. Not just about how to grab the opportunities there, but also about how to manage the risks. For example, in one of its blogs, The Economists has recently pointed out what Starwood Hotels &#38; Resorts plans not to be seen as an American&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=310&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Separating the sheep from the goats</title>
		<link>http://carlosrgomez.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/separating-the-sheep-from-the-goats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Ruiz Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been many times involved in analyzing how companies were performing. This is generally done using financial ratios. Sometimes, in some cases, other factors have to be examined. E.g. in the case of the Telecommunications industry. Some vendors – ALU, NSN, … &#8212; merge or perform alliances. Some other vendors – probably the biggest&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carlosrgomez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9528437&amp;post=305&amp;subd=carlosrgomez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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