After twenty years in business and being the marketing chief at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38. Now, he serves on a few boards and is a part-time strategy advisor. Every year he gives a handful of speeches, and from time to time writes something. Check out www.lochhead.com.

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Enterprise social software (Social [...]

But why is Google the search leader?
Cuil, the new and “improved” search engine created by Google veterans, has failed abysmally to make a dent against its alma mater, Google, according to TechCrunch. Clearly something other than a full-frontal assault is going to be needed to displace Google as the search leader.
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In fact, the times that [...]

Over time, Laing said he wants Microsoft find its way into data centers that already use VMware.

“I think it will take longer to rip and replace, but that’s certainly our ambition,” Laing said.

“I think we’ll do best initially in ‘green field’ opportunities,” Laing said. “Small business, I think, is a completely green field. In the [...]

BusinessWeek takes a fascinating look at one player that is actually thriving in the troubled music industry: Warner Music Group.

While Warner’s competitors have posted double-digit declines in their businesses, Warner has notched 5 percent growth:

Why is this interesting? Because it offers a useful foil to the software industry, and specifically open-source software.
How did [Warner CEO [...]

“It should be live in the next few weeks,” Hall said, adding that Amazon was “really looking to be the go-to Web site for wine sales.”

“We have set up a few get-to-know-you meetings with wineries, and the wineries will make their own decisions on what fits best with their business plans,” Hall said, who [...]

Continuing WWDC live keynote coverage here.

Update: To help with notifications–like if you get outbid, Apple is providing a centralized notification service. It lets developers push badges, alert sounds (which can be customized), and textual alerts that look like SMS messages. None of these is a background process that runs on your phone, which Apple [...]

But the open-source movement in computer engineering is people get together from all over the world and build computer software bottom-up. Is Barack Obama going to be the old top-down industrial-age cathedral leader, or is he going to be the fellow we heard tonight, this new generation of leadership that is very bottom-up for the [...]