Xerox

• Mr. Smith joins Deep Water Point & Associates from Salesforce, where he served as the Vice President of Business Development and Strategy.
• He succeeds Deep Water Point & Associates Founder Howard Seeger, who has led the Company for almost 19 years.
• "I am proud of what we have accomplished at Deep Water Point & Associates over nearly two decades and equally excited about our bright future," said Howard Seeger.
• "We are thrilled to welcome Brooke as CEO of Deep Water Point & Associates," said Grayson Harcourt, Principal at Renovus Capital.

• THE COLONY, Texas, July 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quest Resource Holding Corporation ( NASDAQ: QRHC) ("Quest"), a national leader in environmental waste and recycling services, today announced that Audrey P. Dunning has been elected to its Board of Directors.
• Ms. Dunning will serve on the Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance committees of the QRHC Board.
• In connection with Dunning’s election, the board increased its size from six to seven directors.
• Prior to Summa, Ms. Dunning held sales leadership positions at IBM and Xerox Corporation.

• Xerox has been named a leader in Quocirca’s 2023 Cloud Print Services Landscape report, a vendor analysis of the global cloud print services market.
• Within the report, Xerox is positioned ahead of all competitors in both strategic vision and depth of service with its cloud service offerings.
• The report commends ​​Xerox’s overall AI powered Digital Services, which when combined with managed print services (MPS), boosts distributed workforce productivity and strengthens resilience in business processes.
• “As more organizations move to a hybrid workplace and transition to the cloud, there is increased demand to ensure print infrastructure does not fall behind.

• For once, he is on the receiving end as Meta launches its microblogging platform Threads to take advantage of his difficulties at Twitter.
• Twitter, in effect, has been a near-monopoly in the realm of short pithy quotes from the well-known.
• Dorsey was joint founder of the business and someone with more liberal views than Donald Trump.

Paying too much?

• He tried to pull out of the deal realising he had over-bid for the business.
• Boards are often accused of retrenchment when rebuffing bids and looking to protect their own jobs, power, status and pay.
• At the same time, he felt the business was wallowing in cost and could make a better job of attracting advertisers.

Tesla losing out?

• So far, Musk has antagonised virtually all stakeholders of Twitter and irritated other shareholders of Tesla – one of his major successes.
• He scythed through the workforce, reducing the 8,500 employees to 1,500 in a matter of weeks.
• However, she may find her remit limited by a chairman who may want to intervene.

Strategic mistake?

• However, Musk may also have been guilty of strategic mistakes: if a company relies on advertising for revenue, then it needs to maximise users to create advertising reach.
• Charging Tweeters and those reading Tweets is not going to maximise users, because many of them may simply leave.
• While Twitter was undoubtedly heavy on cost before Musk took over, the extent of the staff cuts has left content frequently unmoderated.
• Also, problems are brewing with regulatory authorities around the speed of removal of controversial material that appears on Twitter.
• Unlike the proposed cage fight between Zuckerberg and Musk, this clash of social media companies can’t be settled by a simple knockout.