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The policies being debated in the US and Europe today are almost identical to those that played out in Japan a decade or so ago.
Why we need a new macroeconomic paradigm | vox - Research-based
Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan: 'There Is No Substitute for E
When the United Arab Emirates (UAE) became a nation in the early 1970s, there were few signs of the Islamic Golden Age that put the Middle East at the global forefront of education and intellectual innovation hundreds of years earlier.
Globalization of Technology Ventures: Lessons from Israel - Know
Technology is universal, and technology markets are relatively culture-insensitive. Still, the fact remains that surprisingly few high-tech startups that were conceived outside the U.S. or the world's primary technology markets have evolved into global companies.For publishing, 2009 may go down as the year of the machine. Consider Amazon's electronic-book reader, Kindle. Though the first version launched in late 2007, a lighter, faster, cheaper version went on sale this spring.
Technological Evolution Stirs a Publishing Revolution - Knowledg
The Coming 'Wall' of Refinancings: A Trial for Private Equity Fi
Private equity faces a difficult environment as credit markets try to absorb maturing debt from large leveraged buyouts.
Gill Corkindale is an executive coach and writer based in London, focusing on global management and leadership. She was formerly management editor of the Financial Times . 12:43 PM Wednesday August 19, 2009 | Comments (11) I work with senior executives from all over the world with remarkably diverse industries, backgrounds, and cultures, yet it's always a surprise to realise that their development needs are very similar. How can it be that a French CFO of a luxury goods company has the same management problems as a Kuwaiti operations manager? Or that a Japanese quality assurance manager has to deal with the same people issues as a German investment banker?
Why Few Executives Are Skillful Managers - Gill Corkindale - Har
This month Google's running a billboard ad campaign (the only kind they do) in Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco encouraging businesses to switch to Google Apps from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange. They call the transition "going Google" and even offer a convincing calculator which shows you how much money your organization can save by outsourcing your IT needs to Google. Consider these impressive numbers pitting Google Apps Premier subscriptions (at $50 per user) against Microsoft Exchange 2007. With an IT Director's time priced at $69/hour and the hardware and software required for 100 users, according to GOOG, "going Google" costs $3,300 a year, compared to $34,000 annually for Microsoft Exchange. For a small company, that's a significant savings of $30,000 annually, or over $100k in three years. Plug in the numbers that match your organization here (click on the "Save Money" tab).
Should Your Organization "Go Google"? - Gina Trapani - HarvardBu
Observations from a Student Leadership Summit - Conversation Sta
Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit , the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement , at the University of Pittsburgh. The academy's mission is to inspire, develop, and reward accomplished student leaders to meet the challenges of tomorrow. We spent four days engaged in intense learning, discussion, and fun with 44 leaders of tomorrow--4 of whom are my mentees. The summit was fantastic (thank you, Frances). I learned so much about the difference in perspective that young leaders bring to the table, and walked away with a new sense of hopefulness. Some observations:
Shai Agassi, Israel's Homegrown Electric Car Pioneer: On the Roa
If there's a poster child for Israel's entrepreneurial spirit, start-up Better Place is one strong candidate.A few weeks ago, Noah Shachtman of Wired's Danger Room blog wrote about how the, "U.S. military is strongly considering a near-total ban on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networking sites throughout the Department of Defense." According to Wired, the DoD believes that social networks, "make it way too easy for people with bad intentions to push malicious code to unsuspecting users." In April of this year, Mark Drapeau and Linton Wells II (previously the acting CIO of the DoD) published a thirty-five page report titled Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment which looked at the interplay between social software and national security.
Dear DoD, the Web Itself is Social - O'Reilly Radar
One of the things which confronted me when I got interested in quantitative finance is the varieties of different kinds of quant.
a bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies « Locklin on scienc
Why Jeremiah Owyang Is Leaving Forrester Research
Jeremiah Owyang knows what he wants and he knows how to get it, fast. Just short of two years after joining Forrester , the second biggest professional analyst firm in the US, Owyang announced yesterday that he's decided to leave. From working in the marketing department of Hitachi Data Systems to joining business podcast network startup Podtech to becoming the first blogger to be hired as an analyst - Owyang's last five years have been a model of professional advancement through social media.Apple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how the Google Voice application hurts “the iPhone’s distinctive user experience.” All of those statements are either untrue, or misleading, or both. The first part of Apple’s argument, that they never rejected the application, is “a total lie,” according to many sources with knowledge of the Google Voice application process. The second part of Apple’s argument, that the Google Voice application hurts the iPhone’s distinctive user experience, is seriously misleading.
The Truth: What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And T
Stimulus 2.0: It’s The Startups, Stupid.
Editor’s note : The guest post below was written by Reid Hoffman , CEO and Founder of LinkedIn. Reid has some strong opinions about how startups can help right the economy, and he offers some suggestions below. (You can also catch him tonight on Charlie Rose , or check out our interview we did with him at Davos). Reid is an investor in over 60 web ventures including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, FunnyOrDie, Ning, Last.fm, Six Apart and Technorati. While at Davos this year, the conversation spurred a lot of thought about how we can navigate through the economic crisis. Yesterday, I shared a few of these thoughts in a Washington Post op-ed to offer a Silicon Valley perspective to lawmakers.Le propos de ce blog est de livrer une analyse prospective sur l'informatique d'entreprise.