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        <title><![CDATA[Dougan Milne Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:47:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Dougan Milne.  I've been with Corum since 2005 as a research analyst in our Zurich, Switzerland office.  Our research departments are highly synchronized between]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Apple joins the netbook fad…]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
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I don’t believe Netbooks are a fad… but rather, they have yet to evolve to their intended potential. If you look at the user demographics for these devices, they are greatly]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mega Deals: Twitter. Adding to the Catalyst?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
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It often takes a few big deals to jump-start the cycle. We call these deals “Mega Deals,” and in times of economic turmoil (see: now), these mega deals act as a catalyst for]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Future OS]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:14:54 GMT</pubDate>
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There's been a lot of talk over the years of Google producing an OS to rival the likes of Microsoft, as well as Apple and Linux. The recent announcement by Google to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re:Up - the change in valuations]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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We've seen a healthy stream of deals in the past couple months. Along with the spike in transaction volumes, we've also tracked a strong increase in valuation multiples,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[eReaders:  Win or Fail?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:12:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After a recent meeting, a few of us were sitting around chatting about what we were doing over the holidays. This conversation quickly turned towards the gifts we planned on]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Faster Clouds]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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Google recently announced plans to build an experimental fiber network that would run at speeds of 1gb per second. There's already hundreds of articles and thousands of blog]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hierarchy vs. Search]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ One of my co-workers this morning informed me that she was trying to switch to Gmail. I thought this was a nice gesture - not that she did it for me, but that she told me she]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Starbucks is Genius]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:50:19 GMT</pubDate>
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A couple months back, SBUX announced that they would be running a US pilot program, testing methods to bring consumer traffic into the retail locations during "non-peak" hours.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Predictions for 2011]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:43:19 GMT</pubDate>
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Retail/Consumer Payment Solutions will continue to evolve with the broad introduction of NFC (near field communications), SQUARE, and the like -- I don't think either of these]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nokia turnaround]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:48 GMT</pubDate>
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I sincerely hope that my kids are reading case studies about Stephen Elop someday. I would love for this to be a true turnaround story for Nokia, as they have been such a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Update to 2011 predictions]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:48:30 GMT</pubDate>
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In January, one of my 2011 predictions was to see a major mobile OS vendor acquire one of North America's primary wireless carriers. In that prediction, I put a heavy emphasis]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pitchbook data overview]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Our friend John Gabbert of Pitchbook offered us some market analysis in our March webinar. His company tracks private equity data, transactions, etc., and was able to give us an]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[For the most important transaction of his life]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:24:30 GMT</pubDate>
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During our most recent follow-up calls, I spoke to a Founder/CEO who was pleased to receive our latest valuation report (he is a long-time reader of Corum material), and also]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[eBay:  Once and Future King]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
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I’m very excited about the direction eBay is going. I’ve already written blog posts about eBay’s highly strategic shopping motives (M&A) over the past several months… and the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pay the piper]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
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The patent assault in the mobile space will start to slow.

 



 

Beyond the obvious notion that Google now (pending approval) has a quiver of defensive mechanisms, I think]]></description>
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