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In today’s information- and technology-driven economy, companies are increasingly reliant on the cross-border flow of information and labor. Employee mobility in today’s economy demands that intellectual property issues assume greater significance in employers’ and employees’ minds. The mobility of employees across companies requires a careful examination of the nature and scope of a potential employee’s past responsibilities.
In the big scheme of things, Microsoft’s third fiscal quarter for 2011 was pretty good — until, that is, one drills down and sees that its core product, Windows, delivered a disappointing performance, while recent computing developments, especially the consumer craze for tablets, are not exactly trending Microsoft’s way.
CoTweet, a social media management application that ExactTarget developed when it realized that email marketing recipients often continue a conversation about a brand in social marketing venues, now has stronger integration for CRM legacy systems. The company recently unveiled new extensions that allow users to integrate conversations that originate in social media with such CRM platforms as Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Salesforce.com.
A long list of companies — including big names such as Amazon, Dish Network, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and YouTube — appear to be gearing up to enter the online video rental business. Of course, they all have visions of eventually overtaking the current market leader Netflix. It makes sense. Streaming video is the future of home entertainment, and surely there’s room for more than one major player in a market that really is barely more than a year old.
Talk about your anti-climatic endings. Thirteen years after the Sturm und Drang that was the government prosecution of Microsoft on antitrust grounds, the mammoth, multi-million dollar case has ended with a straightforward, run-of-the-mill legal proceeding. The case will end on May 12 without any further oversight hearings, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said at the last hearing held this week in the District of Columbia.