Market Intelligence Hub

  Big technology companies have already entered the smartphone and the tablet market. The fight for the customers is tough. Almost everyone of us either has a tablet or a smartphone, and you don’t have to be a geek to be interested in knowing what the tech giants will be pushing out to the market [...]

At Digimind, we’re always interested in speaking to other professionals who share our passion when it comes to unearthing valuable intelligence insights. This week we sat down with Leslie McCrory to talk about the importance of collective intelligence. Leslie has a wealth of experience in the market intelligence field, working with a number of the [...]

360buy.com, the Chinese quick-delivery shopping site, tops the list with $700m Venture capitalists invested $12.3 billion in 1,277 funding deals in 51 countries only in the first quarter of 2013. The data is based on WhoGotFunded.com, a comprehensive website tracking all venture capital developments in every industry and region in the world, developed by Digimind. [...]

Last week in our blog post we analyzed the buzz generated by the launch of Samsung Galaxy S4.  We wanted to know if this launch could beat the buzz of the iPhone 5 launch with 46,643 online mentions (newspapers, blogs, forums) in one week. Although Samsung has become a strong competitor for Apple and its [...]

The war between Apple and Samsung continues regarding copyrights and all too-similar smartphone features. On Thursday 14th March, Samsung launched the new Galaxy S4  to challenge iPhone 5. Using over 500,000 online sources contained in the Digimind Content Factory (DCF), we analyzed the buzz generated by this launch to show which smartphone leads online mentions. [...]

Following his well-received presentation at the European Intersectoral Summit on Research and Innovation last month entitled ‘Engaging Citizens in Research and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges afforded by Social Media’, we caught up with John Breslin, Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Informatics at the National University of Ireland Galway and leader of the Unit for [...]

Since Andrew Mason announced his departure from Groupon last week, his disarmingly honest ‘resignation’ letter has been torn apart and dissected. His carefully crafted letter belies the common media perception of him as inexperienced and naive. But for many people it reflects the sort of guy that Mason has come to represent, a likeable, unassuming 32 [...]

This is a guest post from Henrik Sköld. He currently manages the CI function at the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. As we all know, many industries today are characterized by rapid changes in the business environment, due to e.g. technological development, changing consumer behaviour or regulatory decisions. At the same time, almost all organisations need to [...]

Our latest Q&A is with Arjan Singh, the global head of competitive intelligence at Endo, a health solutions company. He is also a lecturer at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine, where he teaches strategy & competitive intelligence in their MBA program. Please note that the views expressed here are [...]

The horse meat scandal, which has dogged the food industry for several weeks now, has sparked fresh controversy with the news that Ikea is the latest casualty in the crisis. The world’s largest furniture chain probably wishes it stuck to selling Swedish furniture instead of diversifying into meatballs. In an earlier blog post we looked [...]