Blackmagic Design is not the kind of company to let a worldwide pandemic and recession go to waste. The company kept a low (for them) profile throughout the NAB time frame, and now arrives with a revamped DaVinci Resolve with new tools and companion hardware. In the demo available on the Blackmagic site, CEO Grant Petty took the controls himself … Read more
Trimble’s fiscal third-quarter report for 2020 reveals a company that’s managing a transition to subscription and building a new business in several segments. The pandemic did not come at an ideal time for the company and the company has responded by taking a pass on forecasts. Revenue for the quarter was flat at $792.1 million, a 1% increase. The company’s … Read more
PTC had a good fourth quarter and a not-bad year considering. PTC’s revenues are up year over year, quarter over quarter and the company says the pipeline into 2021 is looking pretty good. All this while the world struggles with a virus that just won’t go away. PTC’s revenue was $391 million in Q4, a 17% increase over Q4 2019 … Read more
At Adobe Max and Adobe’s Summit earlier this year, CEO Shantanu Narayen reaffirmed the company’s close alliance with Microsoft to build its digital experience platform. After Adobe Max, the two giants announced the addition of a third power, C3.ai, to combine their tools to build C3 AI CRM. The three partners will build on Microsoft Dynamics 365, the marketing automation … Read more
PTC and Rockwell Automation signed a strategic alliance in 2018 to jointly sell their products for PLM, SaaS, factory automation, IoT, virtual machinery simulation, and testing software. At that time, the deal was sealed with a $1 billion equity investment in PTC shares and a seat on the board for Rockwell CEO Blake Moret. As a result of the deal, … Read more
Shapr3D is getting a lot of press lately and the company has big plans. The five-year-old company has developed a “mobile-first” 3D CAD tool for conceptualization, 3D printing, and MCAD. Actually, right now it is an iPad-first 3D design tool and the company is targeting the iPad Pro for its added features including Lidar, as well as mouse, trackpad, and … Read more
Quibi didn’t really need to exist and now, it soon won’t. We believe the subscription shakeout is long overdue and it will become much more difficult to attract and keep subscribers.
Quibi arrived in April 2020 just a few short months ago, back when we all climbed into our shelters for a long summer’s nap. The company was headed by moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who are good at raising money and have worked well together, but they’re not really innovators. The idea of short-form news and entertainment channels was … Read more
Unity went public mid-September 2020 with the ticker symbol “U”. Now, the company has new cash in its pockets and promises to keep. Unity is now on a building streak. The company introduced its shares at $52 and has raised at least $1.3 billion. That’s a promising debut for the game development company that has lags behind its flamboyant competitor Epic … Read more
Bentley Systems is primarily a company that enables large projects with tools for design and data management. It has got a lot going on and by definition, its projects involve multiple companies, regulatory bodies, and government entities. The company has used its annual Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference to consolidates its news and messaging, which can result in an unwieldy … Read more
A huge Adobe Max conference is on the way. It doesn’t seem as if the company has cut back at all. This year’s show has 56 hours of live broadcast, 275 sessions and is free to everyone. As a result, says the company, they have over 200,000 registrants in the weeks before the conference. We believe it, there are millions … Read more
We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a … Read more
