Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Disruptive innovation myth exploded! Auto insurer data growing. (RBDR 8/13/14)

Sponsored by Nuance, offering multi-language verbatim coding services to help companies quantify the meaning of open-ended answers. Nuance, a Decision Analyst company.

To find out more about Nuance: http://www.nuancecoding.com

Today: 1) Disruptive innovation is the coveted goal of most startups, however a study shows that new companies with disruptive capabilities tend to move towards collaboration with existing market forces rather than battling rivals hard for market share. 2) Driver insurance companies are busy creating apps to capture the driving behavior of the individuals they are insuring.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Pollfish’s 30¢/survey mobile app offer; Efficient, centralized sample purchasing (RBDR–4/3/14)

Sponsored by Toluna (http://www.toluna-group.com), bringing people and brands together to improve decision making via the world’s largest social voting community.

Today: 1) Pollfish offers surveying to mobile apps, paying 30¢ per survey (which it says is more than can be made from a mobile ad) and offering 3 ways to opt out of receiving surveys. 2) A survey of the fastest growing companies show a marked decline in the percentage of them paying attention to customer complaints on Twitter. 3) Guess what job opportunity is on India’s top 5 list? Yep, you’re right. 4) Federated Sample introduces Fulcrum Bid Manager, a centralized facility that simplifies and makes more efficient sample buying and selling for MR buyers and, importantly all sample sellers.