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Amazon shares fell to their lowest point since late March after Goldman Sachs released a research note Thursday citing comScore data suggesting its holiday sales grew roughly 38 percent — 2 percent off analyst expectations of 40 percent. The numbers imply fourth-quarter revenue of $17.87 billion, below the current consensus of $18.19 billion, the note says.
For many companies, the role of the PMO seems like an enigma. Sure, everyone knows that PMOs exist to streamline project operations so time and money aren’t wasted, but what do they actually do? Failure to answer this question has led many companies to question the value of the PMO in the years after its establishment. However, the burden of proof is on the PMO — not the executives.
Lately, I have been asked by reporters to compare AT&T and Verizon and predict what 2012 will look like for them and their competitors. At this point, all I can say is it’s happy holidays at Verizon, but not so much at AT&T. What a difference a year makes.
These two companies led the changes in the wireless industry over the last decade, but they could soon be on different tracks.
After seven years of a neck-and-neck race for first place in customer satisfaction, Amazon has pulled decisively ahead of Netflix, according to ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index. Amazon moved ahead 2 points to reach the top spot with 88 on the index’s 100-point scale. Netflix slid 7 points to 79. Amazon’s 88 score is an all-time high for the 14-year-old index.
GoDaddy, the Internet’s largest registrar of domains, would like the world to forget it ever supported the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act now before Congress. Namecheap, the second largest registrar, wants to make sure the world never forgets it. In recent days, the domain registering titans have clashed over GoDaddy’s on-off support of SOPA.