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on June 30, 2003
AOL once the synonym for the success of the New Economy has been in trouble for some time now. However in my opinion it does not say too much about the industry as the business model is just not very ...
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on June 30, 2003
The online dating business model finally takes off. While there has not been anything fundamentally new, it's interesting to see how online dating becomes mainstream in US (article requires free r...
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Technology
on June 30, 2003
The idea to mirror real world personal networks has taken off some years ago. I liked the idea from the beginning. If it would be possible to organize business contacts in an online forum it widens yo...
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on June 27, 2003
Techdirt discusses another point which was around for some time. What is the future of copyrights? Instead of unsuccessfully prosecuting violators of copyrights, a tax for any broadband connection sho...
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on June 27, 2003
Techdirt features a good synopsis, why VC investments shrank in last years. I my opinion the chain theory makes sense. People won't have the 'extended' view into the future. Instead it doe...
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on June 27, 2003
The market for sourcing software applications still seems to attract enough investors. Some weeks ago Procuri got a series B Founding of 10 million from Insight Venture Partners. Today Ketera namingly...
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on June 26, 2003
That's first time I hear about Mr. Clayton Christensen. His idea is compelling."When the level of technological progress is far above what customers actually need and can use, the phenomena o...
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Technology
on June 26, 2003
I'm not fully convinced if the mentioned inventions will really get off, but it's fun reading about real big ideas.Even more interesting is a site that previews the 'most wanted inventions...
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on June 26, 2003
Despite the problem establishing the business model in Europe, Wireless ISP have aggressive growth plans. According to WLAN GmbH they aim to set up 'several thousand' Hotspots within 10 years.
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on June 25, 2003
Wired has Named it's TOP 40 innovations. Dont' miss.
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Technology
on June 25, 2003
While I'm still looking for a good device to surf the web while jogging in the greenest city in germany, sombody has solved the issue to listen to MP3's under water. That is real innovation .....
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on June 25, 2003
The two cities with the highest internet penetration rates in Germany are Frankfurt and Dresden. This can not be a coincidence! Seems newtron has made a good groundwork :-)
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Technology
on June 25, 2003
I was waiting a long time for this. Finally File sharing services are lobbying to become ('more') legal. I'm also very curious if there will be more mainstream movie download service soon....
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on June 24, 2003
bubble or real business? Vivato received a stunning amount of USD 44.5 million in round C. This sums up to USD 67.0 million in 2003. Intel places a real bid for wide area deployments of wireless LAN h...
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on June 23, 2003
Hamburg features a venture capital event nowadays! There was an interesting presentation from M. Ziegler during the last conference.
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on June 23, 2003
Radiostorm has begun to stream radio to mobiles. Well via GPRS this is burning cash, via GSM it's killing your sense of hearing. But it seems they have made their claim when mobile connections get...
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Global Economy
on June 23, 2003
It has been a while ago, since the economist has been as clear with his statements. Wonderful!
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on June 21, 2003
Finally also the WLAN market get's a beating. What a surprise WLAN has created a bubble. While there is no doubt about the failure of the hotspot subscription business model, WLAN as a supplement...
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on June 21, 2003
The idea to recognize and store the whole life and create a full second storage of human interactions has been discussed for some time now.
Now there is a cam from 'Dejaview'that records 30 ...
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on June 20, 2003
Venturewire offers a nice chart for tracked (mainly US) investments. The graph is actually not really breathtaking....
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on June 20, 2003
A Seattle-based company called 'trafficgauge' has launched a new traffic jam warning and guiding system. This is a truly inspiring and handy solution. But don't hold your breath it's j...
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Venture Capital
on June 20, 2003
BVK the german foundation of investing companies has published their statistics for Q1/ 2003. The members of BVK have invested 603,8 Mio � in Q1. However the seed investments have shrunken to 4,87 Mio...
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on June 18, 2003
The rush in the last years has supported the growth of some tech tales. Have a look at Ventureblogger.
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on June 17, 2003
Finally it seems close all different phones devices converge into less headache.Another thing I never understood, why is there no ISDN phone in Europe that allows to connect a bluetooth headset. These...
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on June 16, 2003
I had a nice event today in the facilities of Globetrotter.Globetrotter seems to have managed the transition from a normal retailer of outdoor goods to a successful brand. Their first shop has been ar...
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on June 15, 2003
some interesting, altough not surprising, remarks about broadband users.
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on June 15, 2003
There are some interesting ideas in Techdirt, how to cross sell with the IPod.
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on June 15, 2003
ebay finalized another aquisition last week eachnet. I keep wondering why there is no online auction service in Russia & russian speaking countries? There are difficulties with the legal system an...
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on June 15, 2003
In this quite interesting and changing market a swiss company 'Barix'. The company will receive 2.5 mio USD in the second round. There have been a couple of other smart device that bridge the ...
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on June 12, 2003
Ok, it's a bit overdoing the personal marketing, but it's a fancy though costly idea. TRY iT!
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on June 12, 2003
There was a quite interesting article about the impact of more and more private satellite data in europemedia.
However just check out Space imaging's free gallery. Makes a good wallpaper :-)
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on June 12, 2003
I had looked for a while into the economics of a "Concierge Service". Although I could never figure out, how the economics could make sense a french company 'Kiala' got a nice invest...
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on June 10, 2003
After some time there are some more sophisticated business models besides ad packed P2P download clients.
Cachelogic has introduced a cache for ISP to decrease network traffic. I haven't seen any...
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on June 10, 2003
I discovered two different programs today that enable a P2P distribution of software.
BitTorrent
and
JoltidI really like the underlying idea, which was first dicussed a year or so ago. The ca...
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Entrepreneurship
on June 9, 2003
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on June 8, 2003
Although it's today probably the hardest time in recent decades to raise venture capital, there are some companies and deals that still get wooed and relentlessly pursued by various VC firms, as t...
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Entrepreneurship
on June 4, 2003
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