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IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime

As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco , we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there are many familiar players talking and to some degree walking the RealTime walk, some have been busy for years building and deploying the fundamentals of this “overnight success.” A few weeks ago, I traveled to Las Vegas to attend IBM’s Information On Demand conference, and took the opportunity to sit down with Big Blue’s Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive of the IBM Software Group. In English that adds up to Steve being The Man at the helm of IBM’s embrace of Web Services, with the software group accounting for one quarter of IBM’s $100 billion business. http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/ibms-steve-mills-on-realtime/
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/14454-hommes-et-femmes-n-ont-pas-le-meme-rapport-a-la-technologie-et-aux-problemes.html C'est inévitable, nous percevons souvent le sexe opposé à travers des stéréotypes bien connus. Les hommes ne demanderaient jamais leur chemin, tandis que les femmes seraient de grandes bavardes. Si chacun trouvera du vrai et du faux dans ces assertions, en tout cas nous voyons un phénomène relativement identique dans le petit monde de la high-tech : souvent, l'homme apparait comme plus doué - ou du moins plus à l'aise - que la femme, plus précautionneuse sans doute. Cet univers-là étant souvent considéré comme très masculin d'ailleurs.

Hommes et femmes n'ont pas le même rapport à la technologie... e

Ebay négocie un virage stratégique délicat. Avec son coeur de métier - les enchères - au point mort et la cession de Skype imminente, l'entreprise de la Silicon Valley se tourne désormais vers Paypal pour alimenter sa croissance future. "Paypal sera plus important qu'Ebay (en recettes et profits, ndlr)", affirme cette semaine son Pdg John Donahoe. Alors que les recettes de son site d'enchères ont encore reculé au cours du trimestre dernier (-1%), celles de sa filiale de paiement en ligne ont bondi de 15% pour atteindre 688 millions de dollars. Au point que Paypal génère aujourd'hui 30% des recettes globales du groupe. http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/high-tech/paypal-sera-plus-important-qu-ebay_206961.html?xtor=RSS-128

"Paypal sera plus important qu'eBay"

http://www.itespresso.fr/second-life-ouvre-un-univers-virtuel-3d-prive-pour-les-entreprises-32252.html

Second Life ouvre un univers virtuel 3D privé pour les entrepris

Second Life tente de refaire parler de lui en courtisant cette fois le monde des entreprises en leur proposant de créer sur leur réseau un univers virtuel en 3D privé, Second Life Enterprise , uniquement disponible pour le moment en version bêta. Selon Linden Lab, le fondateur de Second Life, cette plate-forme, présentant le même niveau de sécurité qu’un Intranet, permet aux collaborateurs de l’entreprise d’organiser des réunions et conférences ou des sessions de formation dans l’univers parallèle de Second Life, de disposer en ligne d’outils de visualisation en 3D et de collaboration (chat, VoIP) pour par exemple créer et échanger des documents. Permettant de supporter plus de 800 utilisateurs dans un même environnement virtuel, la version bêta de Second Life Enterprise est disponible au prix de 55 000 dollars.

Interview: Google News’ Josh Cohen: Can The Aggregator Ever Win

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-interview-google-news-josh-cohen-can-the-aggregator-ever-win-over-publi/ There’s no shortage of publishers who are eager to criticize Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )—and specifically Google News. They accuse the company alternatively of building a business on the back of their content and not giving their original content sufficient visibility in search results. Despite high-profile efforts to reach out to publishers, including a keynote address by CEO Eric Schmidt at the Newspaper Association of America conference this spring, tensions remain high. Just last week, Italian regulatory officials searched Google’s offices in Milan, after publishers there complained that they could not pull their articles from Google News without losing their spots in Google’s search results. As senior business product manager of Google News, Josh Cohen is the point man for Google News’ discussions with publishers.
In the midst of financial apocalypse, the gadflies and gurus of the global marketplace are gathered at the San Francisco Hilton for the annual meeting of the American Economics Association. The mood is similar to a seismologist convention in the wake of the Big One. Yet surprisingly, one of the most popular sessions has nothing to do with toxic assets, derivatives, or unemployment curves. http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all

Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability

http://blogs.hbr.org/radjou/2009/11/polycentric-innovation-the-new.html

Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNC

4:30 PM Thursday November 5, 2009 | Comments (6) Recently I delivered a talk a the Council on Foreign Relations titled "Managing the New Trajectory of Global Innovation" explaining why and how multinationals must revamp their Western-centric innovation strategy in order to effectively leverage global ideas, talent, and markets. In our increasingly multi-polar world characterized by the inexorable rise of emerging markets like Brazil, China, and India , I believe multinationals (MNCs) must abandon their ethnocentric innovation model — which concentrated all their R&D resources in the West. Instead, MNCs must embrace a "polycentric" innovation model in which R&D capabilities are distributed globally to swiftly seize regional opportunities and yet are integrated into a loosely-coupled global innovation network to drive creative synergies on an international scale.

Does Silicon Valley’s Spending Spree Signal a Recovery? - Bits B

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/does-silicon-valleys-spending-spree-signal-a-recovery/ This week brought acquisitions of three high-profile technology startups, a welcome break in the gloom that has enveloped Silicon Valley for the past year. On Monday, Google agreed to buy AdMob, a mobile advertising startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, for $750 million. Electronic Arts agreed to buy Playfish, an online games startup backed by Index Ventures and Accel Partners, for $300 million. On Tuesday, Logitech agreed to buy LifeSize, a videoconferencing startup backed by Redpoint Ventures, Austin Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners, for $405 million. “There’s a lot of pent-up demand,” said Jeff Brody , a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures who is on the board of LifeSize. The number and value of acquisitions of venture-backed startups in the third quarter fell below even the dismal second-quarter numbers, according to data released in October by the National Venture Capital Association.
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/14440-acta-des-documents-confidentiels-diffuses-sur-internet.html Alors que le sixième round des négociations secrètes sur l'Accord Commercial Anti-Contrefaçon s'est terminé hier à Séoul, en Corée du Sud, des documents confidentiels rédigés par la direction générale du commerce de la Commission européenne se sont retrouvés sur Internet. Selon Wired, qui se fait également l'écho de cette information, c'est d'abord sur Wikileaks qu'est apparu ce fichier (pdf) daté du 30 octobre dernier et composé de trois pages. Michael Geist, le professeur de droit qui a révélé en début de semaine les principaux axes du traité sur son blog, a indiqué hier que ce document contient des informations qui ont nourri sa réflexion lors de ses précédentes interventions sur le sujet. D'ailleurs, il se félicite aussi de voir la presse anglophone commencer enfin à s'intéresser à ce sujet : l' Ottawa Citizen , le Washington Post , le NZ Herald , the Atlantic et bien évidemment Wired ont ainsi consacré un papier sur ce dossier.

ACTA : des documents confidentiels diffusés sur Internet - Numer

Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%e2%80%9cless-than-free%e2%80%9d-business-model/ Posted on October 29, 2009 . Filed under: Internet , Uncategorized , Venture Capital , Web/Tech | Tags: Android , Business Model , Disruption , Google , GPS , Internet , Mobile , Navigation , TomTom | [Follow Me on Twitter] I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. After all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent.