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Mobile Apps Study Aims at Budgets, Practices, Strategies

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on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 in Mobile Computing

We just launched a new mobile apps survey aimed at helping enterprises identify best practices, strategies, budget approaches and organizational methods for developing mobile apps.

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Article on Salesforce.com in Seeking Alpha Parallels our Concerns but Falls Short

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on Tuesday, 08 May 2012 in SaaS

There is a very decent, albeit not foolproof treatment of Salesforce.com (CRM) on SeekingAlpha.com. The article looks at number of relevant accounting red flags but sometimes fails to interpret those correctly or put them into context. Some of commentary following the article highlight the discrepancies.

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MGI Research Tech M&A Outlook from March 2012 Bloomberg LP conference

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on Thursday, 03 May 2012 in Tech M&A

Copy of our Tech M&A Outlook from the Bloomberg LP March 2012 conference in New York.

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IBM Purchase of DemandTec Reconfirms MGI SaaS Valuation Model

Posted by Igor Stenmark
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Igor Stenmark is a Managing Director of MGI Research.
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on Thursday, 08 December 2011 in SaaS

For a 2nd time in less than a week, a purchase of a SaaS vendor reconfirmed our SaaS valuation model. IBM is paying $440Million in cash to acquire San-Mateo, CA-based DemandTec (DMAN).

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Is Leon Cooperman Right? Can QNX Save RIM?

Posted by Igor Stenmark
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on Monday, 14 November 2011 in Mobile Computing

Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors, has been buying into Research in Motion (RIM) stock on a belief that the new QNX-based operating system will exceed expectations and a takeover of RIM is likely. Both ideas carry significant risks.

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