There have been very few listings this year, and while Twilio had a strong entry (and continues to pick up speed), Talend — which provides a platform for Hadoop or Spark integration and data management services, disrupting more traditional and costly data warehousing services — could be a sign of more positive reception for IPOs to come, particularly in the area of enterprise services.
But the chance of success amounts to a strong entry on the "reward" side of the risk/reward ledger.
In December, for example, Fox ran its singing competition "The X-Factor" a minute long to provide a strong entry for "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," the low-rated comedy that followed it.
A strong entry into the ever more sophisticated market for novelty cards is likely to be a range of "musical" cards, which will play anything from the Status Quo anthem Whatever You Want - deemed apposite for Father's Day - to Manchester United supporters' chants.
Whether this will be enough to tear anyone away from the traditional, single-mode computers is yet to be seen, though the Activ Book Q is undoubtedly a strong entry by Samsung into this market.
The first Modern Warfare was a strong entry in the "games as art" category, and the multiplayer aspects (while controversially crippled in MW2) are a breath of fresh air when set next to the aging Halo and Counter-Strike.
Overall, I'd say LaserShield is a strong, entry-level security system for folks who might be interested in protecting their precious but don't want to go all OCD.
The collection is by no means comprehensive there are none of the famous Bacon interviews here—and would have benefited from more entries, illustrations and a stronger introduction to the man and his work.
"Over time, the idea is to make it more of a US-based company and that is why they have brought in an American, to make a stronger entry into the US market, especially since our main partnerships are in Silicon Valley".
