Apple Business Essentials, Image/Apple To be released in Spring 2022, Apple Business Essentials is available now as a free beta for small businesses in the U.S. with less than 500 employees. Apple Business Essentials, brings device management, support, and storage into one complete subscription for small businesses: “One complete subscription that seamlessly brings together device management, 24/7 support,…
Meta, Image/Meta Introducing the new company, Meta, a Social Technology Company: “Meta is helping build a future where people have more ways to play and connect in the metaverse. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.” Another Meta definition is described on an about Meta webpage: “The future of digital connection. We’re moving beyond 2D screens…
Fortunes World’s Most Admired Companies ranked Apple (14th year in a row) #1, Amazon #2, and Microsoft #3 in the top three spots in Fortune’s barometer of corporate reputation. Rankings are based on the poll of some 3,800 corporate executives, directors, and analysts. Alphabet ranked #7 in the poll. This year, tech companies Nvidia #38 and…
Recently Twitter announced Twitter Spaces. Twitter Spaces is defined as the following: “Spaces are live audio conversation on Twitter. Tap in and talk or listen to what’s happening” and/or “spaces is a new way to have live audio conversations on Twitter.” How Twitter Spaces works for users: Join a Space Tap the purple circles in the Fleets line…
“Which companies are shaping our future?” One answer is Time Magazine’s “TIME100 Most Influential Companies,” which is defined as “the our first ever TIME100 Most Influential Companies, a new list—and an expansion of our iconic TIME100 franchise—that highlights businesses making an extraordinary impact around the world. To assemble it, TIME solicited nominations across sectors including health care,…
Published every year by Bloomberg, the 2021 Bloomberg Innovation Index assesses countries worldwide: “The ranking process began with more than 200 economies, scored on a 0-100 scale in seven equally weighted categories. Nations that didn’t report data for at least six categories were eliminated, trimming the total list to 111. Bloomberg publishes the top 60 economies.” This…
Roku, Inc. today announced that Roku OS was the No. 1 smart TV OS sold in the U.S. and Canada according to NPD’s Weekly Retail Tracking Service. Roku TV held 38% of market share in the US and 31% in Canada, based on available data from January 5 through December 26, 2020, maintaining the top spot in both areas. Millions…
What is the Future 50? The Future 50 definition can be described as the following: “[Future 50] assesses the long-term growth prospects of large public companies and identifies who comes out on top. It is intended as a forward-looking companion to traditional business metrics, which generally show only what has happened in the past.” Future…