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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy For A $5 Gift Card?

The Realtime Report

Location analytics startup Placed convinced those people to download a mobile app that tracks them wherever they go, 24/7, in exchange for accumulating $5 and $10 gift cards over time, as well as being eligible for drawings of bigger ticket items, like an Apple iPad. These people have opted in to being measured.”

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Target Dabbles in Curated eCommerce with “Awesome Shop”

Convince & Convert

Target is also bringing extensions of The Awesome Shop to its physical stores by leveraging iPads and flagging merchandise on displays. Although the site is fairly new, the company has confirmed future potential to integrate into Target.com and an interest in exploring a stronger tie-in with additional social media platforms.

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Technology Removes Technology

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What do you make of the meteoric rise of the iPhone and iPad ? I would argue that it's something else: these corporate designers have figured out something that other technology and consumer electronic goods companies still struggle with: Apple , Google and Amazon have done an amazing job of removing the technology from their technology.

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Comparing Apples To BlackBerrys

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RIM is not a company of innovation. RIM is a technology company that has evolved (quickly) from an entrepreneurial startup into a global business, and those two entities are diametrically opposed. PlayBook 's lack of success (RIM says that only 500,000 tablets are in market) compared with the iPad is indicative of this.

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11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Think about it marketers have been given this gift of Social Media which is reinventing areas of your company on the fly. In my company alone we have seen it touch Product Development and R&D, to Billing and Finance, to HR and Recruiting, to Customer Service and the Contact Center.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #221

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Here''s a 1995 promotional video for Neoglyphics - a Web design company. Management intuition for the next 50 years - McKinsey & Company. We live in a world where the iPad didn''t exist four years ago and now we''re into wearables, connected devices and so much more. But it wasn''t always this way. " (Hugh for Mitch).

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