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Finding and Keeping the Best – Chicago Booth CFO Forum Takeaways

On April 9-10, 2014 I was invited to attend the Chicago Booth CFO Forum. It was an amazing experience to have the opportunity to meet and dive deeply into issues with Booth CFOs from companies like Sony, 3M, Walt Disney, Honeywell, Starwood Resorts, John Deere, Zebra Technologies, Harley Davidson, Netflix, Allstate, Motorola and Twitter. Interestingly,

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Bitcoin Lunch & Learn

Mediafly’s product, services, and engineering teams have been extremely interested in Bitcoin, altcoins, and blockchain algorithms, as many of us believe these currencies and underlying technology will fundamentally change the future of the Internet, and have significant impact on politics and economics. As a result, we were very excited to welcome Andrew ‘Flip’ Filipowski, an

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Docker Meetup at Mediafly

Bryan Murphy, Mediafly’s Technical Architect, presented at the Chicago Docker Meetup on March 12, 2014. Bryan discussed what Mediafly does, the massive scope and scale of the problem we are trying to solve, and how Mediafly uses Docker on Amazon Web Services to build a multi-tenant secure distributed asynchronous service-oriented polyglot architecture that scales under

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Transition From A Sales Nuisance To A Sales Asset

Looking at moving your prospects’ view of you from a sales nuisance to a sales asset? Here are three stages that are key to transitioning a sales conversation from just an interesting opportunity to prospective sale: 1. Connecting with your customer. 2. Seeing the conversation shift. 3. Driving to a mutually beneficial plan. With these

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Rest in Peace XP. What Will This Mean for B2B?

It appears that a PC staple is going to be joining the likes of PDAs, VHS tapes, and AOL accounts: the beloved Windows XP operating system. Microsoft’s website has this to say: “After April 8, 2014, your XP computer will no longer receive automatic updates that help protect your personal information. Even if you have

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Mobility Sweet Spot: Nokia, Nexus, and Dell are Still Behind in the Enterprise Tablet Race

In our first mobility sweet spot post, we touted both the iPad Mini with Retina and the ThinkPad 8 as being the closest to enterprise-grade tablets.  The ideal enterprise tablet: Should not limit normal business functions, such as content creation, editing, and collaboration. Should allow for constant connectivity, both over 4G/LTE or Wifi. Be user

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Introducing the Mediafly Interactives Platform (Q1 2014)

We are proud to introduce the Mediafly Interactives Platform. Interactives are a feature of our iOS, Android, and Windows 8 device apps (and soon, our web Viewer platform) that enables easy, secure development and deployment of content-focused custom themes and interactive presentations within our customers’ apps. The concept of native + web hybrid mobile apps

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