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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

HP makes changes in its policy with the aim of improving its presence in China

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Hewlett Packard has carried out a change of business area for two of its executives with the Mission of assaulting the Chinese market and compete against Lenovo.

Those affected have been Todd Bradley, until now head of the area of PCs and printers, and Dion Weisler, senior Vice President and responsible for the business of HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

Starting from now, Bradley is responsible for leading a team that will have as a top priority to achieve a positioning of the brand in China and deal with its rival Lenovo, which hopes to build a large network of partners and enhance operations on the channel, collected in ZDNet.

In particular, the new position of Bradley is the EVP of strategic growth initiatives where it is expected to have more luck that at the stage that has just ended, since the sales of personal computers have been reduced in the second quarter of the year at 20 percent and the printers, have fallen by 1%.

In the case of Weisler, is responsible for the division of PCs and printers who leaves Bradley. Weisler, carrying from January 2012 at HP, has experience in China to have occupied for Lenovo the position of COO in the areas of mobile and Digital Home, as well as having worked in management positions with Acer.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

MySpace introduces controversial changes to retrieve the path to growth

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The social network MySpace has implemented some changes in its service in order to improve its presence in the market, but these have not been well seen by veteran users.

A new interface, goodbye to the profiles of users that included videos linked from other bands and singers, and excision of the blogs and comments on them, have been the changes in the umpteenth attempt at MySpace go flying.

The company currently owned by singer and entrepreneur Justin Timberlake, lived their peak in 2005, when it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation Media congolomerado, which paid $ 580 million for the operation.

The people of Murdoch on MySpace stage was a complete disaster and business fell sharply. In 2011, after the failure of Australian Tycoon to revive the business, this I just selling the social network to Timberlake by $ 35 million.

With the new changes that launched these days MySpace the enterprise wishes to make clear its approach towards music content and the discovery of new artists, but unfortunately for managers of social networking, seems that they have not sat well lifetime users.

On MySpace claim to possess the greater library of streaming music market, made up of 53 million songs, but it doesn't seem easy to recover the pull of old, since they have to fight off competition from similar services of storage of music such as SoundCloud or Songkick.

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