Jonny’s offering a free 30 minute webinar on dealing with web 2.0 overload. We can’t believe it’s free, and recommend you jump at the opportunity, now! Jonny explains the course is “for AR pros who want to understand how to manage the sheer volume of information in the analyst 2.0 world to just 5 minutes…
Since our relaunch in April, AnalystEquity.com has had 36% more visitors. According to Alexa.com, that makes us the most visited AR site. However, other sites around the analyst industry are going well: tekrati.com readership spans both AR and mainstream tech audiences, with its dedicated news feeds being the first stop of the day for many…
Lighthouse will launch a half-day “AR 2.0” seminar on September 17. “Using social media to build analyst rapport” will outline how web 2.0 technologies can help AR managers to develop their ongoing dialogue with influential analysts. The seminar will also strip away the “AR 2.0” hype (which suggests that AR 1.0 is obsolete), outline how…
A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The Times, but almost $7 billion according to the Financial Times (the FT correctly notes that the value of Informa’s debt also…
Our Credo series on AR principles has to address the most challenging pressure on AR professionals: how to say no to activities with little or no marginal benefit to the organisation. It’s a classic example of the triple contraints: time, cost and scope. Analyst relations managers increasingly understand the need to tier analysts so that…
As we mentioned last week, Analysys Mason has bought telecom software shop OSS Observer. That’s a significant move for Analysys’ managing partner Tony Lavender: he arguably now leads the biggest practice in BSS/OSS/telecoms IT in the world. Certainly the OSS Observer guys are well respected and, because they’re based in the US (only one in the UK), the two practices…
Telecoms specialists Analysys Mason are expanding more into the software space though their purchase of OSS Observer. The announcement is here. Considering the weakness of the US dollar, we’ll perhaps see more purchases of US firms from Europe in the future.
Telecom Italia has shot up 9 positions placing it as the biggest gainer of the month. The firm has launched its first community Internet TV “Yalp!” which aims to allow users to create and publish their own TV channels. ZTE has announced the industry’s first operational end-to-end IMS system with convergent BSS/OSS, it has moved…