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Half of Americans believe the social network giant Facebook is just a passing fad, and a similar number believe the expected asking price in its upcoming IPO is too high, according to a new poll. Since the dot-com boom of the 1990s ended with a dot-com bust, many once-dominant players have fallen by the wayside. Will Facebook share their fate?
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By 2016, tablet PCs will reach an inflection point, a new study predicts: That is the year tablet shipments are predicted to outpace those of notebook PCs. That is one prediction in the quarterly NPD DisplaySearch Tablet Quarterly report. It also forecasts that shipments of tablet PCs will grow from 81.6 million units in 2011 to 424.9 million units by 2017.
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Samsung is top dog in the global smartphone market. No, wait — it’s Apple that is No. 1. Well, either way, Apple is making more money than Samsung. A recent flurry of reports analyzing the state of the mobile market has provoked some head-spinning. Some issues, such as the global competition between Samsung and Apple, are being hotly disputed by dueling consulting firms. About other trends, though, there is no doubt whatsoever.
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The current brouhaha over the possible increase of federal student loan rates masks a greater problem: We are graduating a generation of people with college-level skills that our companies don’t value. This is the root of the “jobless recovery.” Businesses need capabilities that fresh graduates don’t offer; thus the recent Huffington Post report that half of today’s college graduates are under- or unemployed.
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Every day, I meet retailers who are eager to learn how they can add a co-creation, customization, or personalization feature (collectively “Customization” with a capital ‘C’) to their existing offerings. They often start the conversation off with an overview of their current products and quickly move to a discussion about which of them cater to the “customization” demographic.
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