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It’s sometimes hard to get to the facts and December retail sales are no different. With dozens of experts weighing in and talking up the holiday season, now the official government numbers are in and most markets suffered. It was only autos with a 8% increase that held the numbers up,...

The chart above is an interesting analysis of Steve Ballmer's keynote and shows which parts of his presentation got the most pick up in the Twitterverse. Everything is measurable, not just the audience for the keynote itself, but the impact of an individual sentence. In the future, you can imagine...

It might have been going on for months, but I have just heard about Best Buy releasing its entire product catalog as API- meaning "almost" anyone can take the electronics giant's entire database of products and use it any way they want. It might not sound like the most exciting thing ever, but it's...

Not content with being in everyone's pockets and in their ears, Apple's iPod is carving out a position of ubiquity by being "dockable" anywhere you might want it to be and the places you probably don't. Does this ecosystem ensure societal permanence for iPod, or does its very ubiquity ultimately...

Posted by Ed Cotton

"Advertising is a tax you pay for unremarkable thinking."Robert Stephens, founder of GeekSquadVia Social Customer ManifestoPosted by Ed Cotton

In the last few days, research sources confirmed Vizio, an American company, as the market leader in US sales of flat screen televisions. This marketplace had been dominated by the big Asian brands like, Sharp and Samsung. Vizio is now a $2 billion company, which is amazing, considering it was...

Here at Influx, we are big fans of the “Sense and Simplicity” brand initiative that Philips has deployed in various guises over the past couple of years. Its been part of an advertising campaign, but it’s more substantive, its become a set of guiding principles that define the...