Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 31, 2003
Considering the enormous valuation for Friendster's first round, it seems the bubble times have returned with social software. To make it complete - rumors are, Google has made a bid to buy...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on October 31, 2003
Ernst& Young has chosen the "Entrepreneur of the Year 2003" in Germany. The two most interesting entrepreneurs out of the five winners are: August-Wilhelm Scheer, IDS Scheer AG Karl...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 31, 2003
I found an interesting ranking of German multimedia agencies. It ranks 200 consulting companies by their 2002 revenue.The TOP 3 are: T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Dresden Pixelpark AG, Berlin...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 30, 2003
Weblogs as a personal content management system might have the power to manage most "public" files for individuals. However this vision is still flawed by complex setup, maintenance and poor...
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by tj on October 29, 2003
Business 2.0 draws some interesting conclusions about dreams and reality of integrating RFIDs with modern ERP systems. "More data means that corporations will be able to keep better track of...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 29, 2003
The Economist sums up nicely the Arab Human Development, I wrote about last week.......
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 28, 2003
The Business Angels Network Germany managed to bring together more than 100 German business angels on October 13th to a yearly gathering. As you expect several start-ups used the chance and pitched...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 27, 2003
The NYT portrays three companies, which have weathered the storm in Silicon Valley. The most interesting for me is VMware that sells software to maintain virtual machines on servers enabling several...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 26, 2003
The appeal of the internet to bring down transaction costs has finally reached the VC market. I had written something about M&A exchanges some time back, which all suffer from very small...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 26, 2003
Wired has a pretty nice article about the human nodes in modern technologies. Now you know who to watch for during the next dinner party....( via Many2Many)......
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by tj on October 26, 2003
The free ASPs are back in town. FreeCRM offers a free hosted CRM application. A lot of ASPs have gone bust in the last years, but costs of technology and more important the costs for fast connections...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 26, 2003
Lo�c Le Meur has some pretty good insight about Kiala, a darling of investors in the last years despite the cool investment climate. I had covered Kiala just recently. Lo�c also provides an...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 25, 2003
Amazon recently announced their new book search service; its newest and sharpest weapon against Google. Amazon made the text of 120,000 books, with more than 33 million pages, fully searchable....
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 25, 2003
Michael Kanellos has written one of these great articles about failed tech predictions. "The PC will disappear. This is the Area 51 theory of the hardware world--it never goes away. IBM was...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 25, 2003
Naval Ravikant at Ventureblog has some great predictions about the future of wireless apps. He is especially highlighting the emergence of location based services and Voice-over-IP. Don't miss.......
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on October 25, 2003
Business 2.0 has made up their mind and has chosen their favorite technology for 2003. Thanks to all the hype you might guess the winner - social software. Thanks Konstantin for the link!......
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on October 25, 2003
The first German clone of Ryze and LinkedIn is up and running. Lars Hinrichs has done a good job setting up a first version and push some initial PR. The functionality seems very comparable with...
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by tj on October 24, 2003
Yes, I did it and migrated from Windows 2000 to Win XP and Office 2003. I checked twice to backup everything and of course I was wrong. I lost my Feedemon OPML directories. I'm still working on...
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I recently just wondered about why so few startups have ventured into disaster recovery, which was once coined as a very stable segment of growth. Especially after the power outages in the last...
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The UNDP recently published one of the best regional briefings I came across lately. "The Arab Human Development" report 2003 dissects the transition of Arab countries into a knowledge...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 22, 2003
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's has released their 2003 Fast 50 ranking of fastest growing tech companies for various regions in the world. Australia Canada Central Europe France Germany Israel Norway...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 21, 2003
ebookers.com the online travel portal has decided early to move operations to Delhi, India. The local subsidiary even has an own brand and is called 'Tecnovate'. "Delhi helps provide a...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 21, 2003
The Economist has just discovered the pretty good research paper from Andrew Odlyzko I had posted about in July. It's still a good read..........
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on October 20, 2003
Esther Dyson the omnipresent pundit of progressivity and emerging technologies has an impressive amount of portfolio companies. Esther started traveling in Eastern Europe in 1989 and helped several...
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by tj on October 20, 2003
This concept sounds a bit too futuristic, but the source is reliable. "Researchers from NTT Docomo Multimedia Labs and NTT Microsystem Integration Labs in Japan have demonstrated a...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on October 20, 2003
Joi Ito points to an interesting weblog from Loic Le Meur's. He is illustrating his experiences about setting up a company. He has some pretty good points, but from my point of view the (business)...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 20, 2003
The second version of the weekly weblog roundup is online.......
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"Bigger than Hollywood"- that is how people describe the video-game industry according to a recent Economist article. Online gaming is the newest opportunity to bring interactive games to...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on October 18, 2003
Some might had a sneak preview yesterday as my MT displayed this link already. Taipei has completed the most expensive marketing venture for a while the "Taipei 101". I sincerely hope it...
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by tj on October 18, 2003
The online content business has been a positive surprise in many areas during the last years. Being doomed for impossible profitability some sectors like dating and some newspapers made headlines of...
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