Jul 22, 2009

TechCrunch News has just broken that Amazon.com has purchased hot ecommerce up and comer Zappos for 10 million Amazon shares.I’m digging around for details now but here’s a video Jeff Bezos did that just went to Zappos employees. The post is here.Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. (Read More)

Jul 01, 2009

Submitted by Smartens: nnovationspsychologie:Warum der Umgang mit Disruptionen so schwierig istAndreas Göldi, 1. Juli 2009 13:37 Uhr, 11 Kommentare KommentareOffensichtlich tun sich die Eliten in Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur reichlich schwer mit dem Internet und den Veränderungen, die es mit sich bringt. Warum bereitet Führungspersönlichkeiten (Read More)

Jul 01, 2009

Inside Facebook While Facebook has over 230 million active users and has been rapidly growing around the world in the last 24 months, Orkut, the social network run by Google, has remained dominant in Brazil and India. Although Facebook has grown slowly in those two countries, it’s never been able to turn the corner - until now.Starting abo (Read More)

Jun 23, 2009

The Inquisitr There is no denying the fact that Facebook is a rolling force on the Internet that grows in size daily. Not only does it grow as far as users are concerned but it is also growing data wise at an astonishing rate as all those new users upload pictures, videos and talk back and forth. With more than 850 million photos upload (Read More)

Jun 01, 2009

Submitted by Smartens: El pasado mes de abril, Daniel Pérez se incorporaba a Xing como Country Manager en España.Xing es una red social profesional de origen alemán muy popular en toda Europa, y que en España cuenta con cerca de un millón de usuarios, muchos de los cuales vinieron a raiz de la compra de las redes sociales de habla hispana Neuron (Read More)

May 30, 2009

Loic Le Meur Blog We have chosen "Build Your Community" as a tagline for Seesmic and Chris Pirillo (I wrote in details why I thought he was a god of community management and how he does it) just said at WordCamp that "You can't build a community, it's there or it's not" pic, cringel here are a few quotes from his speech: "I don't want to be (Read More)

May 16, 2009

VentureBeat Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees.Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company for more than two years now, and many have worked three to five years. Increasingly, some have (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Smartens: Vormarsch der Taliban alarmiert die USA Die Offensive der Taliban im Norden Pakistans besorgt die USA. Washington fordert die Regierung in Islamabad auf, den Radikalen Einhalt zu gebieten. Nun marschieren paramilitärische Einheiten im Distrikt Buner ein - und verzeichnen erste Erfolge. (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Smartens: Continental könnte bald Schaeffler führenDer Zusammenschluss von Continental und Schaeffler findet womöglich unter völlig neuem Vorzeichen statt. Laut "FAZ" könnte Conti die operative Führung in der Allianz übernehmen - die bisherigen Pläne würden damit auf den Kopf gestellt. Banken und Politik stehen offenbar hinter dem Ko (Read More)

Apr 22, 2009

PUBLICO.es - España El presidente justifica en el Congreso la última crisis de su Ejecutivo en la necesidad de acelerar las medidas contra los problemas económicos . (Read More)

Apr 17, 2008

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Apr 11, 2009

TechCrunch As the New York Times reported, Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are in talks with several private equity firms and are amassing their own financial resources to make a bid for the internet phone business. eBay bought Skype from Zennstrom and Friis for around $3.1 billion in 2005. We reported last year (Read More)

Apr 11, 2009

Submitted by Smartens: AUTOMATEN DER ANTIKEWie die Götter die Tempeltüren öffnetenVon Heike Le KerWundersame Technik der Antike: Wie von Geisterhand gelenkt tanzten Puppen, öffneten sich Tempeltüren und sangen Orgelpfeifen. Der Trick dahinter: Automaten, die mit Wasserdampf und raffinierter Technik arbeiteten. Ein Überblick über kuriose, jahrtaus (Read More)

Apr 10, 2009

Submitted by Panda88: When it comes to relationship status, not all countries are created equal, at least not in the world of online social networking.According to statistics obtained from Facebook’s analytics system, there is a disproportionately large percentage of users reporting their relationship status as “single” in Middle-Eastern and Sou (Read More)

Mar 23, 2009

The Future Buzz Facebook wants to become the one-stop-shop for social networking.  They didn’t upset 94% of their users without good reason.  I was hoping someone would map out their potential path, and Robert Scoble did just that:The 7 phases Facebook is going through:Phase 1. Harvard only.Phase 2. Harvard+Colleges only.Phase 3. Harvard+C (Read More)

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