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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network
Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…
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WSJ: Eighth annual survey of U.S. corporations with the best and worst reputations
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal released its latest survey about corporate reputations. Microsoft for the first time overtook long time leader Johnson & Johnson as company with the best reputation - due to the positive effects of Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropy. As the WSJ describes…
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CNNMoney: Darwin Award for Businesses
With its great list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” CNNMoney provides a good overview on the 2006 “biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers” in businesses. Some companies even managed to get more then one entry on the list. When you read through the pages…
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World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2007
The World Economic Forum has selected 47 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2007. Each of the selected companies is involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and has potential for long-term impact on business and society…
…Following the list of IT companies awarded for 2007 with a brief summary of their innovations, when, by whom,where they were founded together with the names of the leading investors for each company…
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Starbucks: It’s Red Again campaign
Don’t take this post as a blunt advertisement for lattes, motchas or cappuccinos. This year’s Starbucks Christmas campaign is called It’s Red Again.
“It’s Red Again” is an interesting mixture of promotion and social experiment. It aims to inspire people to pass along the Holiday tradition of kindness. Starbucks President and CEO Jim Donald together with [...]
Microsoft / Novell: Are Windows and Linux becoming buddies?
Yesterday the two CEOs of Microsoft and Novell in a joint press conference told the public that they have agreed on a set of broad business and technical collaborations …to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft(R) products work better together…
The two companies also agreed to provide [...]
PayPal: HP adds PayPal as payment option
You can tell that a new solution has become mainstream when key market players announce publicly that they will use it.
Yesterday worldwide number 1 computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that it now is offering PayPal as a new payment option in their online stores. With the agreement, the HP Home & Home Office Store [...]
Environment: Inc. Magazine’s Top 50 green entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur’s magazine Inc is introducing the Green 50 of entrepreneurial companies that embrace the concept of green business.
Inc. Magazine believes that the current green awakening is driven as much by markets as morality:
…High oil prices, global warming, the sense that chemicals cause real harm and the earth’s resources are indeed finite–these are not [...]
E-Bay: Another Record Quarter
While some analysts already believed that sky-rocketing EBay has already reached its top due to growing competition from Google, EBay today posted another record quarter in his history.
Turnover in the 3rd quarter rose by 31% to USD 1,449 Bln and profits rose 10% to USD 280,9 Mln.
Strongest contributor to the increase was PayPal of [...]
Packard Bell Sale: NEC exits European Markets
I don’t like to write obituaries but with this news I’m not completely sure what it might mean. After Packard Bell has pulled the plug in 1999 and exited the US retail market together with laying off almost 80% of its staff we now are hearing that NEC is getting rid off Packard Bell [...]
