“A federal judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Obama’s overtime pay rule. The executive action, which was due to take effect December 1st, would require employers to pay overtime to workers earning less than $47,476 a year.” WSJ reports. Original post.

Oracle bought the managed DNS provider that suffered a DDoS attack recently, DYN.

“You can do better. Especially if you have happy customers and product-market fit. That’s the hardest part today. Too many vendors, too many products….. disruption means there absolutely, positively, are another 50-100 customers out there for every single one you have today. There is no chance you have maxxed our your market. There isn’t.” [saas sales]

SaaS Founders take on PR (Public Relations/Publicity).

IN the midst of the Polycom acquisition saga and VTECH buying snom, quietly, Frost & Sullivan honored Grandstream with Global Enterprise IP Endpoints Market Company of the Year Award, which I never heard of.

Windstream filed to discontinue SMB DSL service in CLEC territories due to the equipment is no longer supported (and they only have 300 customers using it!)

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for reading.

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Great collection of advice for CEOs on leadership from successful CEOs like Warren Buffett.

This cartoon from GapingVoid sums up Leadership nicely.

This video explains some of the changes coming from the federal overtime laws.

“Right now, if a worker earns a salary of more than $23,660 a year they’re exempt from earning overtime. If they earn less than that, they can be paid time and a half for every hour over 40 in a week. The big change is that threshold for an exempt employee is moving to $47,476 a year. That means if you earn less than that, you will be eligible for overtime pay if you work more than 40 hours a week. That change is coming December 1, 2016.”

The Federal Dept. of Labor is being challenged by 20 states (see here).

“The new rule clarifies which workers qualify for an exemption and states that any worker who makes less than $47,476 per year or $913 per week is eligible for overtime if they work more than 40 hours per week, regardless of job title or description.
The DOL notes that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), under which the overtime pay protection rule falls, covers employees of enterprises that have an “annual gross volume of sales made, or business done,” of $500,000 or more. In addition, employees of certain entities are covered by the FLSA regardless of the gross volume of sales or business done.”

Just thought you might need to know.

Extreme Networks just bought the Wireless LAN business from Zebra Technology. Maybe they want the old Ruckus business, too. Brocade bought Ruckus earlier this year but now that Broadcom is acquiring Brocade, Ruckus will be spun off or sold.

“Nearly two-thirds (64%) of small to medium-sized businesses – more than 7 million – would like to take advantage of ‘Wi-Fi as a Service’ offerings from managed services providers (MSPs), according to a Wi-Fi as a service survey conducted by iGR.” [source]

How can you be like DuckDuckGo? DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine. “By offering one thing that other search engines don’t offer, a promise not to store your search history, DuckDuckGo has grown impressively, year after year, with no signs of that abating.” [AVC]

There is a lot of room for you to join the Privacy Safeguard segment.

AT&T had to stop charging for privacy.

Broadband Providers Will Need Permission to Collect Private Data. The FCC privacy policy is HERE.

UPDATE:

There are ways to make email more profitable. A study by 451 is here with stats about email usage.