Join Us Now Auto Industry Pledges to Accelerate Sales of EVs The White House “has won a voluntary commitment“ from the automotive industry “that electric vehicles will comprise up to half of U.S. sales by the end of the decade,” according to an Associated Press report. The goal “is expected to be supported by companies such […]
Join Us Now I read a fabulous article by Theron Mohamed in Markets Insider this weekend, and I want to share the highlights with you. Theron is a senior reporter who mostly covers Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, but he also writes about tech, media, markets and the broader investment industry. In his article, he brilliantly encapsulates a five-part interview […]
Join Us Now ServiceNow, Innovative Enterprise Cloud Platform, Beats Second-Quarter Earnings Estimates ServiceNow, an innovative enterprise cloud platform, reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, topping estimates and sending shares upwards. “For the quarter ending June 30, ServiceNow earnings came in at $1.42 per adjusted share, up 15% from a year earlier. Revenue rose 32% to $1.41 billion,” writes […]
Join Us Now Research reveals that 70 percent of all business applications in use today are SaaS-based. By 2025, 85% of business applications that companies use will be SaaS-based, according to BetterCloud’s 2020 State of SaaSOps report. HMG Strategy recently caught up with David Politis, Founder and CEO of BetterCloud, regarding the charter behind his company and its […]
Join Us Now From a meteorological perspective, it’s been a stormy summer. There have been some brief economic storms as well, such as last week’s precipitous drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Investors were momentarily spooked, but the Dow closed the week above 35,000. All in all, the major indices performed well, despite the jumpy […]
Join Us Now Are We Watching a ‘Tale of Two Markets?’ If you’re wondering whether there are actually two parallel “markets” out there, you are not alone. The S&P is up, but the Russell is down. Some parts of the economy are booming, while other parts still suffer. The good news is that technology remains […]
Join Us Now President Biden continues to hint that our nation will embark shortly on a retaliatory effort involving a major cyber offensive action, presumably taken by US Cyber Command, against Russian targets. This is a terrible idea – and here are ten reasons why. 1 Response – If our military hacks Russian targets, then all […]
Join Us Now As companies shift to a hybrid work setting of remote and in-office employees, this will create new opportunities for employees and business partners to collaborate in new ways to spur the next wave of innovation for businesses. When we shifted to a work-from-anywhere model in March 2020, many of us had to […]
Join Us Now Nearly 18 months ago, the world was forced into a new way of working. Virtually overnight, knowledge workers had to figure out the best ways to perform and produce in a work-from-anywhere model. The good news is that many knowledge workers redefined how they work, and they continued to be productive — […]
Join Us Now Russian Ransomware Gang Goes Off-Line The mystery over a prominent gang of Russian hackers deepened this week. “Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of the groups suddenly went off-line early Tuesday,” writes David E. Sanger of […]
Join Us Now The following article is an example of the peer-focused research that HMG Strategy will begin delivering under the HMG Research Stack service starting in August 2021. To learn more about the Research Stack and the full suite of offerings available to business technology executives, contact info@hmgstrategy.com. 2020 was the “worst year on record” […]
Join Us Now I often write about the need for technology executives to lead courageously. Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, raised the leadership bar for all of us on Sunday by rocketing to the edge of space in a spaceplane built by one of his companies. “The suborbital trip gave the British billionaire, […]
Join Us Now Cyber Hacks and Ransomware Attacks Escalate – Experts Point to Russia as Source of Strikes Cybercrime was in the headlines this week as breaches and ransomware attacks proliferated in various nations across the world. “Russian hackers are accused of breaching a contractor for the Republican National Committee last week, around the same […]
Join Us Now Summer is traditionally a season for restful vacations. But technology executives won’t be relaxing this summer as the pace of ransomware attacks accelerates and the attacks become more sophisticated. Somewhere between 800 and 1,500 small businesses were targeted by cyber-attackers late last week, raising more questions about the safety and security of […]
Join Us Now Facebook’s Victory May Be Temporary Facebook has scored a momentary victory, but I don’t believe the social network will emerge unscathed from the mounting challenges it faces. “Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg may be breathing a sigh of relief thanks to a federal judge’s decision to dismiss two antitrust suits against the social media giant. But […]
