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Realme – Born out of Sky Li’s vision to deliver new-generation smartphones.

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The mobile industry is one of the most important industries all over the world. In fact, it keeps growing and prospering for a long period. Many Asian companies have gained recognition in this industry. Like a Chinese smartphone, Realme has gain popularity in minimal duration. A Shenzhen based mobile firm Realme is the best example of a new brand that competing well-developed brands like Xiaomi.

How the firm made it possible in a very short duration? Well, there is one simple tactic, provide more features and better value at an affordable price. So that customers can get the desired value for the money they are investing. Apparently, Realme’s founder Sky li has implemented this universal fact to create trust in the smartphone market. As a result, within a year of establishment, the firm has entered an international market as well as captured a large part of China’s market. Presently, Realme is popular in the smartphone markets of South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. As well, it is growing the presence in the market of Egypt, Italy, Spain, France, England, and Russia.

Backstory of Realme

Today it is known as Realme but it entered the market as an OPPO Real in 2010. It was one of the sub-brands of OPPO electronics. However, the former vice president at OPPO Mr. Sky Li resigned from the post and found the independent smartphone company, Realme.

That’s how Realme started in 2018, with a new brand logo and new vision to provide stylish yet new technology-based smartphones. Just in one year, it entered officially in the Chinese market with brand new models Realme X and Realme X lite. By the end of the year 2019, the firm had successfully entered 20 smartphone markets.  Includes China, India, Southeast Asia, and Europe. As well, become the no. 1 emerging brand.

About Realme

A well-known businessman Sky Li set up Realme in 2018. It is based on the vision to provide new generation smartphones having superior experience. Due to the use of cut edge technology, the newly launched Realme has successfully stood out in the market. As well, it brings the smartphone models full of trendsetting technologies, and features that give trendsetting experience at affordable prices.

Realme Founder Sky Li
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With the hard work and head to head competition, Realme proved its significance in the global market. In spite of strong competitors like Samsung, Nokia, Xiaomi, and of course Oppo gained the trust of customers. In India, the firm has given a tough competition to Redmi.

The strategy to conquer over other brands

There are dozens of mobile manufacturers in China that focused on channel marketing and offline distribution. While realme focused on online from the beginning. It directly steps in the market in competition with Xiaomi neglecting other numerous small brands. On the online platform, Realme made available the mobile phones with similar features and price segment with Xiaomi. Thus, the consumer got the chance to choose between two brands. Earlier, only Xiaomi’s models were dominating the market which got a new competitor. Knowing that online shopping is preferable by many, brands sold smartphones only on an online platform for one year.

Glimpse to founders life

Sky Li is a founder of Realme who also served as a vice president of Oppo. As well, he was the head of the overseas business of Oppo for a long time. LI shared a great contribution to exploring the business of Oppo in 3 markets covering 31 countries. In 2018, he resigned and established a new brand Realme.

Later succes of Realme

Realme always amazed consumers with cut edge technology that reflects in its smartphone models. At the beginning of this year, the firm has announced a new strategy AIoT plus smartphone. It is known as dual driven strategy. With this, the firm has safe its side in changing the smartphone market. Presently, more than 35 million smartphone users use Realme’s models. As per Counterpoint global smartphone shipment, Realme is no. 7 emerging brands as well as ranks first in the international market.

The firm set an example for emerging brands. Using innovation and a unique marketing strategy, it stands in competition with its many other rivals. In fact, it is developing innovative and variety of cell phones in various ranges of price.

Arris International – Born out of merger and acquisition of many leading firms

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America is well known for its quality products in all types of industries. So, how can we neglect the telecommunications sector of America? When it comes to powering the smart telecommunication network, the country has a name all over the world. In this case, the name of one of the leading firms has taken into consideration i.e Arris international. USA based telecommunications equipment manufacturing firm known as Arris International is powering the smart connectivity all across the world. Basically, it provides cable operators with data, a complete telephony system, and video for personal and professional use.

From last year, the firm is one of the subsidiaries of a network infrastructure provider called CommScope. Since 2019, it becomes more powerful that powering a smart and connected world. In fact, it’s best software and hardware services are transforming the way of connectivity among people as well as business.

About Arris International Limited

The American telecom sector is world-famous and Arris international is one of its examples. Its business is spread all across the world. At Suwanee, the US, and Georgia, the firm has its executive offices. However, it’s manufacturing units, design units, service, and sales offices are spread all across the continents.

Recently in 2018, CommScope has acquired Arris for big money about 7.4 billion dollars. Since then, the firm is one of an integral part of CommScope.

Well known products of Arris International

TM402P and the TM502G are the best-known home telephony modems of Arris international. Apart from that, it produces the wireless cable modem-and-router unit-SBG6580. It is best known among other telecom and data-transfer products. Moreover, it’s sophisticated cable telephony equipment is known for video, voice, and data services through LAN utilizing broadband connections. Plus it manufactures hybrid fiber-coaxial architectures. These are well known for  HFC network maintenance.

The backstory of the foundation

Arris international set up in 2001. But the actual beginning of the company is far before that. It has a legacy of products, services, and off course lots of evolution. In fact, it is the combination of several companies like Anixter, ANTEC, LANcity, TeleWire Supply, and Arris interactive LLC. Each firm has significant importance behind the formation of Arris international. So, it’s all begins in 1969 with  Anixter’s entrance in the cable industry. Initially, it was an equipment maker.

Thereafter, Anixter partnered with AT&T. This new partnership successfully develops the cable industry’s first analog video laser transmitter. Anixter’s most important contribution to the making of Arris international. After that, Anixter captured TeleWire and started the distribution of broadband communication. That’s how after multiple mergers and acquisitions it rises as Arris International in 2001.

Acquisition strategy

To explore the business, Arris international used the acquisition strategy. First of all, it captured the IL-based manufacturing company of the cable modem termination system in 2002. It was Cadant Inc. Thereafter, the firm has acquired EG technology in 2009. A company hailed from Atlanta. Moreover, Arris international’s one of the remarkable acquisitions is Digeo, Inc. The firm spent over 20 million dollars on this acquisition. One more important acquisition of the firm was in 2011. It purchases BigBand Network for 172 million dollars.

As well, Arris International acquired Motorola Mobility’s home unit in 2013. Because it wanted to meet the requirements of the growing set-top box market. In fact, this step proved useful for growing its presence in the set-top box market. Plus the firm acquired Pace Plc, UK un 2015. Another set-top box manufacturer.

The mastermind behind Arris international’s growth- Bruce McClelland (CEO)

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Any company or business is based on the policies, directions, and agenda. However, the CEO is the most important person who can guide the firm. Like Bruce McClelland has guided the American telecommunications firm Arris international. He served as the CEO of Arris international from 2016-2019. However, in a very short duration, he changed the scenario of business.

Career and Education

Currently, he is serving as a President at Ribbon Communications. Prior to that, he worked at  CommScope as an EVP and Chief Operating Officer. As well, served as a chief executive officer at Arris international. Apart from that, Bruce was President of Network and Cloud, Global Services for over 3 years. Additionally, served as a president at ARRIS Broadband Communications Systems. Apparently, he is a well-experienced CEO who guided the policies of several businesses throughout his career.

Bruce attended the University of Saskatchewan to study BS  in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Commvault

Commvault- Ultimate platform for data protection for changing needs of IT industry

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Data is most important for many things in our day to day life. Such as it powers our communications, transportation as well as our daily routines. However, it is must be able to harness data for all the needs mention above. But we can see continuous changes in data. It is moving as well, growing fastly. Thus, data security is the main concern in all this scenario. Because future technology depends on data. As well, the IT industry highly depends on data and it is changing. These changes are good but bring new challenges and need advanced methods to protect the data. The data security firm Commvault is working to bring the advanced level of data protection. Also, it develops software that can handle critical IT operations. In fact, Commvault makes sure that customers can use and manage data with maximum safety.

About Commvault

It is a data protection and management software firm that is traded publicly. The firm is headquartered in Tinton Falls in New Jersey. Software developed by Commvault is best known for data backup and recovery. As well, infrastructure management and cloud base retention and compliance of digital data are feasible with Commvault.

The Backstory of foundation

In 1988, Bell Lab set up Commvault as a development group. That time, the main focus of this group was on data management and it’s backup and recovery. Thereafter, it was handover to the AT&T network system as one of the business units of the firm. This journey didn’t stop here. Commvault became part of Lucent technologies. However, it again sold and finally rise as a corporate unit during 1996.

Initially, the firm worked for managing the network storage and launched the products in 2000. Presently, it is a publicly-traded firm since 2007. One more change in Commvault is about the position of CEO. Recently in 2019, Sanjay Mirchandani held the position of CEO at Commvault.

Acquisition strategy

To explore the business, acquiring the firms is a proven strategy for most of the leading businesses. Like Commvault does. In 2019, the firm acquired the firm, Hedvig. It was a software storage based startup. With this acquisition, Commvault will improve its service.

Awards and recognition

The firm is one of the dominant companies in the field of data management and security. It is well recognized within the industry for its individual as well as corporate achievements.  Commvault has received 5-star ratings from the CRN partner program guide in 2020. As well, it was the recipient of Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s products of the year award, 2019. Recently, its work for Data center backup and recovery is appreciated and it scored the highest rank in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities.

Apart from this, the firm is honored with many such awards since it’s the foundation. Today, Commvault is one of the leading names in the industry.

Master Mind in Commvault

Sanjay Mirchandani- Commvault’ CEO

He is an award-winning CIO and a well-known Global leader. Mirchandani has over 30 years of business and IT leadership experience at Commvault, Puppet, Microsoft, and VMware. Coming to his education, he attended the University of Pittsburgh to study Master of Business Administration. As well, he went to Drew University to get a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. In 2011, he received Drew University’s Achievement in Business award. His primary education is completed in Mumbai at Cathedral and John Connon School.

Career

Prior to joining Commvault, he held senior leadership positions at VMware, EMC, and Microsoft.  As well, he is expertise in the IT transformation. Most of the people unaware of the fact that he is responsible to grow the user base of Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions. He grew it to more than 40,000. The role of Mirchandani to grow the network of Puppet is appreciable. Currently, the policies of Commvault is set under his guidance.

Bottom line

Commvault’s approach towards data protection matches the requirements of changing the IT industry. In fact, it enabled automated data protection that efficient in data back up and recovery. For its continuous dedication to protect and manage data efficiently, Commvault marked the name in several awards. As well, the innovative approach of the firm raised the standards of data protection in the IT industry. Today, many leading firms trust Commvault for its miscellaneous service

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Scribd Acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn in Surprise Move

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SlideShare has changed hands for the second time now, having bought out from LinkedIn at an undisclosed price. As per news reports, the presentation-sharing platform now has a new owner in the form of rival Scribd. LinkedIn has released an official statement saying that Scribd will officially take over operations from September 24th. Here’s a look at how the acquisition came to be, and what it means for the business.

Common Missions and Goals

Trip Adler, who serves as the CEO of Scribd, stated that both the companies share a lot of values and ideas, both having similar journeys and backgrounds. Both the presentation-sharing platforms started in 2006-2007, announcing their arrival through TechCrunch, and both the companies share similar roles and responsibilities. The CEO stated that the companies share a joint mission, both being involved with presentation and document sharing. The major difference being that while SlideShare focused on PowerPoint presentations, Scribd developed PDFs and Word Doc files. Also, while SlideShare marketed more towards the business users, Scribd was more concerned with the general consumers.

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Differences Later On 

Over the years though the companies drifted apart naturally, as a result of mergers, acquisitions, and a general change in strategy. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare in 2012, and four years later joined with Microsoft through an acquisition. Meanwhile, Scribd branched out into a Netflix-style subscription model for both e-books and audiobooks. However, Adler reaffirmed that for Scribd, both the premium and user-generated sides were crucial. 

Opportunity Arises

Hence, when both Microsoft and LinkedIn came to Scribd regarding an acquisition, Adler was very interested. He saw it as an opportunity to expand the company’s user base further. Scribd feels that having SlideShare on board will help them develop their document side, by integrating with their product, SlideShare’s vast content library. SlideShare, owing to its huge popularity, has over 40 million presentations on it and enjoys a user base of over 100 million unique visitors every month.

Adler believes that the acquisition will help Scribd leverage both SlideShare’s audience and content, helping Scribd grow exponentially. Furthermore, Adler also believes that Scribd can benefit from integrating SlideShare’s technology with its own. While Scribd will not be adding employees to its roster, it will not oversee the operations of the existing SlideShare team. Furthermore, SlideShare will continue as an independent service, and will not merge with Scribd to form one platform. He also hopes that the platform’s integration with LinkedIn too will remain as strong as it is now. Adler also made it clear that there will be no changes in the initial months, as decades’ worth of experience has given the team enough insight to know how to turn SlideShare genuinely successful.

LinkedIn’s Acquisition

LinkedIn took over the content and document sharing platform SlideShare in 2012, for $119 million split as both stock and cash. SlideShare is a massively popular document and presentation sharing website that even the likes of IBM use to curate their content. After the signing of the deal, the companies mentioned that their relationship was like that of Peanut Butter and Chocolate, as they were mutually complementary. The deal, worth slightly less than $119 million will be split 45% through cash and the remaining 55% through stock. Four years later, in December 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion.

SlideShare’s Competitors

Some of SlideShare and Scribd’s most significant competitors include the following presentation sharing platforms.

  • SharePresentation is a high-quality web platform that supports the uploading and sharing of various kinds of presentations and documents. The platform offers a variety of functions and services that allow users to share information and improve their reach significantly.
  • Authorstream is another online document management and sharing platform that allows users to share their work with the world. It supports various multi-functional features, has an intuitive interface that is simple and easy to use.

VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, Chris Pruett released a statement highlighting the work that LinkedIn had done on the platform after acquiring it. LinkedIn took over SlideShare in 2012 to build its platform and make it more suitable for business professionals. The collaboration with SlideShare has helped the platform engage the community, and shape its content management and experience. As a new future awaits SlideShare, we will have to wait and see how Scribd develops and takes the platform forward.

Comodo

Melih Abdulhayoglu- Turkish American entrepreneur who set up Comodo Group for internet security

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The USA based Cybersecurity firm known as Comodo Group is best known for protecting the network worldwide. It acquired the trust of clients and the personal user with enabling the ultimate platform for cybersecurity. As well, it enabled the single platform for endpoint security, network security, and managed detection and response. All credit goes to the person behind the establishment of Comodo. Mr. Melih Abdulhayoglu set up the firm in 1998. Obviously, it took years to establish the name of the Comodo Group in the market. But now it’s a well-known platform to secure network that uses a different approach to prevent breaches. Today, well-established organizations such as Samsung, eWinery Solutions, Scheurich, and many more trust Comodo to prevent breaches.

Melih Abdulhayoglu
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About Founder and CEO of Comodo Group

Melih Abdulhayoglu is a well-known entrepreneur in America, hailed from Turkey. The business venture of Melih known as Comodo Group has dealt with internet security. As well, he is known for establishing the CA/Browser Forum. This forum focuses on promoting new industry standards. Moreover, he has been honored as the 12th richest Turkey’s personality in the list of Forbes 100 richest Turks.  

Under the guidance of Melih, the firm has proved the presence and trust in the international market. However, he managed to use this success to build many other complementary businesses. Here is the life journey of Melih to marked the name in riches person in Turkey.

Early life

He is born on 10 March 1968 in Hatay in Turkey. Melih completed his high school studies at Hatay. To complete higher education he left Turkey at the age of 18. Thereafter, he shifted to the UK and attended the University of Bradford. Electronics Engineering was the subject of his graduation.

Career and Businesses

In 1998, just after completing the graduation, he set up the Comodo Group in the UK. However, he moved to the USA in 2004. Therefore, he shifted the business in the USA during the same year. Apart from that, he promotes new standards for industry throughout his career. For that, he organized the forum called CA/Browser in 2005. As well, he was the organizer of the Common Computing Security Standard Forum during 2009. That time, he worked to solve the problem associated with Faux Antivirus software.

Recently in 2017, Melih handover the 50% shares of the Comodo group to Fransico Partners. Also, Comodo Group is renamed as Sectigo. Presently, he is the CEO of Comodo Group.

The Backstory of foundation

After graduating in Electronic engineering, Melih decided to work for protecting the network. That time internet has just arrived. The popularity of the internet boomed as well as it introduced the cybercrime. During this time, many firms jumped into the field of Cyber Security. But very few can stand out and provided the platform for network security. Comodo Group is one of those firms, established in 1998. Today, it uses a different approach to protect the network and become popular all across the world.

About Comodo Group

The firm is focusing on internet security and related issues since its foundation. Basically, it is an organization that issues digital security certificates and develops IT security products. Comodo provides service and products for both personal and professional use.  Most of the people are unaware of other work done by the Comodo Group. Like it assisted in setting security standards by working to contribute IETF DNS Certification.

Main Companies of Comodo Group

Comodo CA Limited is an integrated part of the Comodo Group. It is known for issuing digital certificates such as SSL. In 2017, Melih sell 50% of the shares of this unit to Fransico Partners. Presently, this firm has been rebranded as Sectigo. However, it is based in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Another integral part of the Comodo Group is Comodo Security Solution. This unit of Comodo Group deals with the development of security software. Both for personal users and industrial clients.

Other Products of Comodo Group

Comodo develops products such as Comodo System Utilities, Comodo Internet Security, Mobile Security. As well, it built the web browsers like Comodo ice Dragon and Comodo Dragon.

Bottom Line

Comodo Group is the perfect example of business exploration with standing out in the market. Since 1998 it is unstoppable and adapted the changes as per new security problems. The business also went through lots of up-down. But now it is one of the dominant IT security firms all over the world.

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ChargePoint is a boon in the industry of electric vehicle infrastructure

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ChargePoint is one of the biggest companies around the world that operates an EV charging network in 14 countries. The growth of electric vehicle has been increasing every day and thus the demand for EV charging stations are also increasing. These charging stations are becoming as common as petrol pumps and will expand to other countries very soon.

Richard Lowenthal is the founder of the company and currently, Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint is the most important person in the company. His visions for the company are big and he thinks he doesn’t need to wait for the world to understand the charging network. So, the technology on which the EV charging networks run is built by the company itself.

About Richard Lowenthal

Richard acquired his bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley. He was the CEO of ChargePoint from 2007 (the founding year) to 2011. Currently, he is the CTO of the company. Apart from ChargePoint, Richard is also the co-founder of Lighter Networks.

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History of ChargePoint

Initially, when the company was founded, people didn’t have much idea about electric vehicles and how it can take over the world within the next few years. Founded in 2007, ChargePoint witnessed massive growth in profit within 10 years. By 2017, ChargePoint owned more than 35,000 EV stations in many countries. The company’s headquarters are based in Campbell, California. But, apart from that, the company has big markets in Mexico, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

The growth escalated highly in the past three years and in 2017 the company was planning for a listing. But, no one from the company mentioned a specific timeline. At the end of 2018, the company raised around $240 million, and the number of stations summed up to 57,000. At the end of 2021, the annual growth of the company is predicted to be around 55%.

Pasquale Romano- The man taking ChargePoint to newer levels

In 2011, Pasquale Romano became the CEO and the President of ChargePoint. Since then he has opened many new ideas and paths for the company to increase the revenue and expansion in foreign lands. He is highly inspired by Tesla and said Tesla didn’t wait for the rest of the world to catch up and thus designed Tesla’s Supercharger Network. Similarly, he won’t stop making significant changes and build out the biggest charging network only because the world isn’t fast enough to catch up with it.

Pasquale has a very rich experience in the business world. Before becoming the CEO of ChargePoint, he was the board member of many companies like CALSTART, AgilOne, Proterra Inc, and also the owner of Centonove and a few other companies. He went to Harvard and later to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his maters.

The world is changing and irrespective of the pace people are buying electric vehicles and by 2025 the demand will be at its peak. Pasquale also said that he is not looking into the business from a single man’s perspective. He has laid put strategic plans for the company for both private vehicles and public transport as well. So, even in the next few years if the number of personal vehicles drops due to excess pollution level or oil demand, the company can benefit from the public transport sector.

Pasquale’s main vision is to make the lives of common people easier by bringing down the cost for vehicles and EV is the best way in this era to do it. He is a very optimistic person who mainly focuses on the driver’s perspective, his customers, and customers of EV in general. Thus, he dedicates all his work to make this technology easily viable and affordable.

ChargePoint and its growth in Europe

In 2018, the company planned to expand its business as the market for EV in Europe is increasing more rapidly. The firm of ChargePoint is now owned by Daimler and BMW and it started selling charging points in Europe in 2018. Quickly, electric cars will be outnumbering diesel cars as in many parts of Europe diesel cars have been banned. This is one of the reasons why ChargePoint thinks the market of Europe has a big potential for EV. The company has raised $125 million for expansion in the European market and soon it will compete with Engie and Innogy.