ecabit.org TechCrunch Tim Macer's research technology blog | Tim Macer | Research The Economist recently ran an article on “Big Data” in its special report on International Banking. Its assessment of banking is of an industry surprisingly resistant to embracing the internet as an agent of change in banking practice. It reveals, counter-intuitively, that the number of bank branches has actually risen by 10-20% in most developed economies – yet most customers pass through their doors once a year rather than once a week, as used to be the case. The newspaper explains this paradox thus: banks with a denser branch network tend to do better, so adding more branches is rewarded by more business. All of which is to say that there are parallels here with our own industry. But what interests me is the Big Data – both in The Economist’s report and our own. In our survey we asked a series of questions on unstructured text. Most research companies are barely scratching the surface of this problem.
Netvibes – Social Media Monitoring, Analytics and Alerts Dashboard Venture Voice: VV Show #21 - Fabrice Grinda of Zingy « VV Show #20 - Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software | Main | VV Show #22 - Introducing the Venture Voice Entrepreneur of the Year Award » VV Show #21 - Fabrice Grinda of Zingy Download the MP3. If you think the ringtone business is for kids, then Fabrice Grinda has a $130 million lesson to teach you. Update (4/16/08): Fabrice announced on the Venture Voice blog that he's launched a new online classified business called OLX that's been dubbed a Facebook killer. Show notes: 1:15 Becoming an entrepreneur Born in Paris, grew up in Nice.Attended Princeton.Made several hundred thousand dollars by arbitraging computers between the US and France. 6:30 Types of entrepreneurs“I’m not very creative.” 23:45 Investor follies Aucland was funded by Bernard Arnault, France’s richest individual. Posted by Greg Galant on Dec 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (2) Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Tracked on February 28, 2006 9:55 PM Sunder
SPICA Directory Online : Home Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here By now you must have heard the news that AOL has acquired us. Here are videos of the on stage signing of the agreement and an interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong immediately afterwards. So how did all this happen? In May I had a chance to interview Tim on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt: New York. Tim asked me how things were going at TechCrunch. “That’s too bad, he said, we’d love to acquire you but we’d need to know you would stick around.” “Wait. We laughed, and that was the end of any conversations for a while. The truth is I was tired. AOL of course fixes that problem perfectly. The more we spoke with AOL the more we saw a perfect fit. From a product and business standpoint, it’s a perfect fit. But what put things over the top, and what ultimately led us to discontinue discussions with other suitors, was the AOL management team. So at that point we were basically sold. Tim told me that he doesn’t want whatever makes TechCrunch special to go away. So we begin another journey.
Disease-resistant elms aim of Canadian research - Technology & Science Scientists at the University of Guelph are cloning elm trees they believe are resistant to Dutch elm disease, a fungus that has devastated the North American elm tree population. Their work features a method that is the first of its kind for replicating elms that have survived the onslaught of the European tree sickness. Dr. "I was surprised myself that American elms are very, very difficult to clone," said Dr. The centrepiece of his research is a nutrient-enriched growing gel. "That's the innovation. Research backed by brewer with a love for birds Prof. The founder of the Wellington Brewery is also an avid birder. "It was very sad. But Gosling and his wife Susan didn't allow themselves to be overcome by emotion. "[Saxena] captured it instantly. "The knowledge gained [from the institute] will spread across the world in how to approach the treatment of diseased trees," said Gosling. The American elm is now mostly used as a cover tree, shading many Canadian avenues. Dr.
WhatRunsWhere: WhatRunsWhere: Competitive Intelligence for Advertising in the Digital World | Discover your Competitor's Display and Mobile Advertisements Corporate Venture Capital Corporate venture capital (CVC), distinct from corporate venturing, is the investment of corporate funds directly in external start-up companies. Corporate Venturing refers to when a company supports innovation and new projects internally.[1] CVC is defined by the Business Dictionary as the "practice where a large firm takes an equity stake in a small but innovative or specialist firm, to which it may also provide management and marketing expertise; the objective is to gain a specific competitive advantage.[2] The definition of CVC often becomes clearer by explaining what it is not. An investment made through an external fund managed by a third party, even when the investment vehicle is funded by a single investing company, is not considered CVC. In essence, it is best to think of CVC as a subset a venture capital whereby a company is investing, without using a third party investment firm, in an external start-up that it does not own. Objectives[edit] Investing and Financing[edit] A. B.
University Industry Innovation Network | Home UIIN Conference 2014 www.university-industry.com UIIN Good Practice Series www.gps.uiin.org UIIN Publishing www.publishing.uiin.org UIIN Award www.award.uiin.org UIIN Magazine www.magazine.uiin.org UIIN Resource Platform www.resources.uiin.org S2B-UIIN Glossary www.glossary.uiin.org UIIN Blog www.blog.uiin.org The early days of Techcrunch – Helloform I remember it well: back in June 2005, I sent Michael Arrington an email criticizing his personal blog design. I also remember that design quite well – it really did look like crap. Mike and I had been blogging about similar subjects and exchanging blog post comments. Back then I was blogging at webreakstuff.com (which became my company), and Mike was starting Techcrunch. Those exchanges and that particular email I sent eventually led to Mike asking me to design Techcrunch. I needed a challenge and decided to take him up on the offer. A couple months later, on August 25th, I got a long email from Mike. I’ve spent some time discussing edgeio with you and skirting the idea of you working with us. About three weeks later, I was landing at SFO and moving into what for the 4 following years was called the Techcrunch HQ – or simply Mike’s place. I remember going to bed and Mike being up, writing. These days, Techcrunch is huge – Mike talks about how big it is in his post at Uncrunched.
Global LNG Technology Insights and Evaluation – Small LNG Trains Regain Momentum Global LNG Technology Insights and Evaluation - Small LNG Trains Regain Momentum Global LNG Technology Insights and Evaluation from LNGReports is a complete report on liquefaction technologies. The report provides all the technical and commercial aspects of developing a liquefaction terminal. Recent trends in liquefaction technology along with industry outlook are covered. Various technology providers available along with their technologies, operational and planned projects are provided. Further, all key components in development of liquefaction process are detailed. Research Highlights: - Global LNG Supply to increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.9% over the decade - LNG industry scope widening rapidly with 38 new liquefaction terminals scheduled for operation by 2020 - Against the historic trend, demand for small sized trains will be constructed between 2015 and 2020 - An increasing number of constructors prefer ConocoPhillips Optimized cascade process Scope of the report: