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| Microsoft simplifies digital life with Live Mesh |
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Microsoft recently launched a limited test of its new Live Mesh service. The service allows users to easily share data and files between multiple computers and handheld devices. Live Mesh is designed to eliminate the issues associated with having a file on a different device and needing access to it. A full beta test is expected later this year. More at NewsFactor.com, 4/23/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Economy and society |
| Strong Q108 PC sales in EMEA |
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Portable market expansion and notebook growth have fueled sales in the Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa PC markets. The Western European PC market showed no signs of slowing down, as overall shipments increased by 12.6% in Q01-08. EMEA is considered a major growth opportunity in 2008. More at IDC.com, 4/21/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Lifestyles |
| Consumers search and rely on customer product reviews online |
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Companies such as Zagat and PetCo have harnessed the power of consumer reviews on their websites to boost online sales. More consumers are reading product and service reviews before ever stepping foot into a brick and mortar retailer. Zagat, a popular restaurant review guide, has based its business entirely on user-generated content and rewards consumers who make reviews with free Zagat subscriptions. More at E-commerce Times.com, 4/23/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > B2B |
| Facebook looks for direction in the future |
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A lot of uncertainty about Facebook was expressed at the recent Web 2.0 Expo. Some analysts attending the expo predicted that developers would earn over $100M in 2008 though the social networking site while other analysts precidicted that figure would be as low as $10-35M. The discrepancy is due to issues with development. Smaller developers can earn more but larger developers are needed to make applications high in demand. More at techcrunch.com, 4/23/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > B2C |
| Google launches brand ads on mobile devices |
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Google recently launched mobile image ads throughout the US, Europe, and much of Asia. These ads look just like a standard Web image ad but are smaller to fit on mobile screens and must link to a mobile Web page. The ads are priced on a cost-per-click basis and are keyword targeted. More at NewsFactor.com, 4/24/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > New Ventures |
| BCG reports on RDE-Based Companies and their home markets |
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Many companies from rapidly developing economies are expanding and going global. However, there are also many that choose to dominate their domestic turf. These ‘local dynamos’ have strong business models which allow them to compete against other MNCs successfully. More at bcg.com, 3/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Management & strategy |
| Google declared world’s most powerful brand |
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Google has been ranked number one in Millward Brown’s top 100 global brands. It has seen a 30% year-on-year increase in its value. It is followed by GE, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and China Mobile to complete the top five. More at Guardian, 4/21/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Learning issues |
| U.S. development depends on innovation and higher education |
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The Council on Competitiveness global competition to determine what gives different countries and regions a sustainable advantage. In order for the United States to remain competitive, it will need to keep driving innovation. Innovation is a driver of productivity growth and requires a strong intellectual base and resources dedicated to research. This is achieved by the wealth of higher education available in the US. More at compete.org, 3/08: (Article posted on 4/15/2008)
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| Category > On Wall Street |
| Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City, confusing analysts |
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Last quarter Blockbuster was hyping its upcoming Movielink service; this quarter the company has made an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster execs have illustrated a plan to offer exclusive content and content-enabled devices. More at Ecommercetimes.com, 4/24/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Ethics, law, policy |
| Teacher in Malta convicted of sending lewd text messages to pupils |
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A 37-year old religious education teacher in Malta was recently sentenced to a two year suspension after sending inappropriate text messages to students. The teacher had been previously accused of chatting with pupils online and discussing sexual matters. The court ordered that the teacher’s license be taken away and can never be renewed. The teacher has also been banned from any institution where minors could be present. More at cellular-news.com, 4/25/08: (Article posted on 4/29/2008)
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| Category > Research & publications |
| NEP: New Economics Papers Edited by Marcus Dejardin |
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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur Andersson, Martin; L��f, Hans http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:cesisp:0127&r=ent Political Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: an Evolutionary Approach Hederer, Christian http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:8249&r=ent Family involvement and firm performance: a family embeddedness perspective JULIO ORLANDO DE CASTRO; RACHIDA JUSTO; CRISTINA CRUZ http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:emp:wpaper:wp08-09&r=ent From innovation to exporting or vice versa? Causal link between innovation activity and exporting in Slovenian microdata Joze P. Damijan; Crt Kostevc; Saso Polanec http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lic:licosd:20408&r=ent Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich gef�rderter Existenzgr�ndungen – eine empirische Untersuchung Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, J�rn H.; Lutz, Andreas http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lmu:msmdpa:2968&r=ent (Article posted on 4/29/2008) Read >> |
| Category > Career development |
| U.S. government holds lottery to determine which applicants receive visas |
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The US government recently announced it would hold a lottery to determine who will receive H-1B visas for fiscal year 2009. Immigration Services will issue 65,000 visas and anyone who submitted an application between April 1 and April 7 will be eligible for the lottery. Technology companies are currently lobbying Congress to raise the limit of how many visas can be issued each year. More at E-Commerce Times, 4/9/08: (Article posted on 4/15/2008)
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| Category > TOCs, meetings, calls |
| Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 23, Issue 4 |
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Give everyone a prize? Employee stock options in private venture-backed firms John R.M. Hand Clusters, knowledge spillovers and new venture performance: An empirical examination Brett Anitra Gilbert, Patricia P. McDougall and David B. Audretsch Strategy–organization configurations in corporate venture units: Impact on performance and survival Susan A. Hill and Julian Birkinshaw Externally commercializing technology assets: An examination of different process stages Ulrich Lichtenthaler Financial slack and venture managers' decisions to seek a new alliance Holger Patzelt, Dean A. Shepherd, David Deeds and Steven W. Bradley The contrasting interaction effects of improvisational behavior with entrepreneurial self-efficacy on new venture performance and entrepreneur work satisfaction Keith M. Hmieleski and Andrew C. Corbett (Article posted on 4/29/2008) Read >> |
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BEERSIG Now an Official AMA SIG |
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The AMA Academic Council is pleased to announce that BEERSIG has been granted status as a regular, sanctioned AMA Special Interest Group. After a very short but heated discussion, the Council decided that because BEERSIG continues to be one of the more highly attended AMA Conference events that recognition and inclusion as an AMA sponsored entity was not only appropriate and deserved but necessary in order to maintain AMA's perception as a "welcoming" organization. As a result of the Council's action, the opening reception at all future Summer and Winter AMA Conferences will hereafter be known as official BEERSIG events. Since BEERSIG is now under the AMA umbrella, AMA, rather than the BEERSIG founding fathers, will provide beer. Consequently drink tickets will become a thing of the past. Rather, all AMA members will now be given a Clemson Tiger Paw when they register which, as before, entitles them to attend and participate in BEERSIG. Any beer remaining from the opening reception will be available to AMA members on an ongoing basis in the Academic Council President's hotel suite bathtub. Finally, and as is the case with all AMA SIGs, AMA members will now have the opportunity to divert certain of their regular AMA dues to the maintenance and perpetuation of BEERSIG as well as contributing to the BEERSIG founding fathers' retirement funds. (Article posted on 4/15/2008) Read >> |