The Blog of Daniel A Burrus

I’ve always said that innovation is a key driver of business success . We saw this in action with Google. Back when Google was a startup, they focused heavily on innovation in search. As a result, they created a major source of income and a name for themselves as the dominant search engine. Google was able to accomplish this in a relatively short amount of time because they kept the pipeline...  Read More

I recently heard that Amazon is looking at opening their first brick-and-mortar store in the Seattle area later this year. In it, they’ll offer their higher-end products and Amazon exclusives, such as the Kindle Fire tablet. While this will be the first Amazon-branded store, there’s no doubt that other stores will quickly follow—possibly even one in your town. What’s driving Amazon to do this?...  Read More

From Rapid Growth of Big Data to Cloud Services and Virtualization.Technology is always evolving, resulting in New Trends Emerging and New Products Appearing everyday. view more  Read More

I recently read an article in the New York Times titled “Youths Are Watching, but Less Often on TV.” In it, the author wrote, “Television is still America’s number one pastime, with an average of 4 hours and 39 minutes consumed by every person a day.” But if you look at the demographics of who is watching and how they’re doing so, you start to see an interesting picture. While people over age...  Read More