{"id":3940,"date":"2009-12-11T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:45:32","slug":"applegoogle-co-opetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/11\/applegoogle-co-opetition\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\/Google co-opetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3945\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Google-logo1.jpeg\" alt=\"Google logo\" width=\"139\" height=\"82\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3943\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Apple-Corp.-logo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Corp. logo\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>After\u00a0years of staying out of each other&#8217;s way and thriving, Google and Apple now\u00a0<a title=\"fight\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703514404574588091065805108.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_business\" target=\"_blank\">fight <\/a>over the same start-up acquisitions and develop competing products.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chair of the Information Systems Department, says it embodies the shift under way in how companies compete in the era of convergence shaped by information technologies.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Managers who fail to see evolving competitive landscape under conditions of convergence will find themselves trapped into rigid business arrangements. This battle should serve as a wake-up call.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0years of staying out of each other&#8217;s way and thriving, Google and Apple now\u00a0fight over the same start-up acquisitions and develop competing products.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chair of the Information Systems Department, says it embodies the shift under way in how companies compete in the era of convergence shaped by information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[816,418,472,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}