Category: Business & MBA

  • Of listening and contributing

    With knowing marketing personal and products, I particularly liked the image/text link on the article. Listening to your customer is a skill that most organisations lost in their size and product managers never learned in their bubble. Your customer doesn’t express his experience in KPIs nor does he respond to NPS surveys. Frontal address only…

  • 10 Munich-based startups

    As one of the top technology hubs in Europe, Munich is an economic powerhouse, hosting the presence of international corporations, strong VC support, top universities and of course, the Oktoberfest. Many startups choose to make the city their headquarters each year – and here are 10 of the most promising Munich-based to watch in 2019.…

  • GitHub Actions

    GitHub today released a CI/CD Tool, GitHub Actions. With the tight integration into development workflows and rich, community maintained build-command, actions appears an interesting competitor in the market. As a minimum, the release indicates the importance of CI/CD for the modern software development lifecycle. Developer productivity and frictionless workflows have been buzzwords for the past…

  • 7 Powerful Talks To Make You a Better Product Manager

    A playlist of TED Talks for Product Managers. Great option for your Sunday evening.

  • Unlock your product organization’s potential by defining “done”

    All too often, the task list for your teams shared project management tool shows items like “Create Workflow” or “Define Process”. Items that do resonate well in the flow of work and in the nexus of individuals. But they do fall short of allowing the rest of the organization to grasp the meaning and even…

  • Apple acquiring most of Intel’s smartphone modem business in $1B deal

    After Apple only recently announced to partner with Qualcom on 5G modems, Intel quickly decided to cease their efforts in that area. In that market situation, Apple likely landed a bargain on this deal. Apple has entered into a deal to acquire a majority of Intel’s modem business, TechCrunch has learned. The deal, valued at…

  • T-Mobile received clearance to merge with Sprint

    T-Mobile has received clearance from the DOJ to complete its $26.5 billion merger with Sprint (S, TMUS) Source: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/sprint-t-mobile-merger-approved-by-doj-stock-price-reaction-2019-7-1028389070

  • CloudBees Acquires Rollout

    Source: CloudBees Acquires Rollout

  • Salesforce buys Tableau

    Salesforce buys Tableau for an amount of $15.7B, in not only its largest M&A deal to date, but probably one of the largest deals ever.

  • Google to Acquire Looker

    Google announced it plans to acquire acquire business intelligence platform Looker in a $2.6 billion all cash transaction.